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SBT dismisses Thayse Teixeira after live comments questioning election result
SBT dismissed presenter Thayse Teixeira on Wednesday, ending her contract with the Brazilian broadcaster.
Teixeira had been a regular presenter on Fofocalizando, SBT’s celebrity news program.
The decision followed comments she made live the previous day about Brazil’s presidential runoff, which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won.
Teixeira questioned why voting hours had been extended and suggested that the election process was unfair.
Colleagues said both campaigns requested the extension and that votes cast after 5 p.m.
could not change the outcome.
The electoral authority said 34,393 votes were recorded after that time, while Lula’s final margin was 4,430,191 votes.
SBT confirmed her contract had ended, but did not give a reason in its statement.
SBT dismissed Fofocalizando presenter Thayse Teixeira on Wednesday, October 28, after comments questioning the presidential election result live.
The comments came on Tuesday, October 27, during a discussion of extended voting hours in the second round.
Teixeira said the extension seemed unusual and that things were wrong in the country.
Colleagues said the extension could not have changed the result and noted that both campaigns had requested it.
The extension applied only to polling stations still operating at 5 p.m.; 34,393 votes were recorded after that time, according to the TSE.
- Who
- SBT presenter Thayse Teixeira and the broadcaster.
- What
- SBT ended Teixeira’s contract after she questioned the election result and the extended voting hours live.
- When
- SBT confirmed the dismissal on Wednesday, October 28, after Teixeira’s comments on Tuesday, October 27.
- Where
- On Fofocalizando, an SBT program.
- Why
- The reports link the dismissal to her live comments questioning the election result. SBT did not state a reason in its announcement.
Thayse Teixeira
Matheus Baldi and Eduardo Gayer
Effect of extended voting hours
Thayse Teixeira
Teixeira questioned the extension and said it seemed unusual and unfair.
Matheus Baldi and Eduardo Gayer
Baldi said the votes cast after 5 p.m. could not have changed the result; Gayer noted that both campaigns had requested the extension.
Voting hours were extended at polling stations that had not finished voting by 5 p.m.
Teixeira questioned the extension and the election result live on Fofocalizando.
SBT confirmed that it had ended Teixeira’s contract.
- Presenter
- Thayse Teixeira
- Program
- Fofocalizando, on SBT
- Contract ended
- October 28, 2026
- Votes after 5 p.m.
- 34,393, according to the TSE
- Final vote difference
- 4,430,191 votes, according to VEJA SÃO PAULO
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What people are saying
SBT informs that it is ending its contract with Thayse Teixeira.
For the first time in the country, in all the years I have voted... I’m already tired of this, and there has never been this thing of extending it for so long. Everything is wrong in the country.
There were 35,000 votes, Thayse, after 5 p.m.; that is, this would not change the election. Just so we can be clear and consistent. The difference was 4 million votes.