A banker caught looking at semi-naked photographs in the background of a live TV interview has kept his job after the girl he was ogling came to the rescue.
Investment banker David Kiely became a huge hit on the internet after he was broadcast on Australia's Seven network looking at steamy shots of model Miranda Kerr.
But he was not so popular with his employer who said the matter was being "taken seriously".
Red-faced Kiely looked set to be fired until the girl he was checking out saved his skin.
Kiely's new legion of fans had rallied together and started an online petition to try and stop the banker from being sacked.
And in an interview with Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Kerr said she would sign it.
"I am told there is a petition to save his job and of course I would sign it," she said.
It appears her pledge did the trick.
Kiely's employer Macquarie said it had completed an internal review of the events and action had been taken.
"He will remain an employee of Macquarie," the statement said.
"Macquarie and the employee apologise for any offence that may have been caused."
There are suggestions Mr Kiely was set up by a colleague who sent him the email containing the images for a joke
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:13 pm