CHRIS Gayle’s controversial sideline interview with Mel McLaughlin was not a one off, according to another reporter who labelled the West Indian cricket star a “creep”.

Fox Sports cricket reporter Neroli Meadows said she has had a similar experience to McLaughlin, describing Gayle as “a creep”.

“I don’t get offended easily, but I plead that people understand that this isn’t a one off. Just listen,” she said on ABC Grandstand.

“He has form. He’s done it to me. He’s a creep.

“I’m a cricket fan. I love the fact that he’s an entertaining person. But guess what? You can still be entertaining without humiliating somebody else. And that’s why he does it — to humiliate.

“He does it to get a reaction from the boys. That’s the only reason he does it.”

Meadows said she knew Gayle was going to pull the stunt “the minute he got out”.

“I knew that he was going to go off and he was going to say something to that effect, because he’s done it before,” she said on ABC Grandstand.

“He’s done it to me, he’s done it to several women. He does this constantly. He is a creep. He has creepy behaviour, and the way that he did it to Mel was just that. Mel knew it was going to happen – you could tell by her body language. She pulled away, you could see it in her face.”

Meadows went on to say how she was “intimidated” by Gayle who pressured her about “going for a drink” with him, and is urging people to take note rather than laugh the issue off.

media_camera Chris Gayle poses for photographs with the PNG Womens Cricket Team

“For one second – just trust us. Rather than saying ‘what a bunch of whinging women’ Just trust us that maybe we’re telling the truth and that maybe it is upsetting and that it does happen all the time and it’s not OK,” she said.

“Maybe just back us in on that – just once. Chris did it to me when he first joined the Thunder. It was an entirely filled press conference because it was big news in Sydney. He went at me once in the press conference … whatever, you’re Chris Gayle, everyone laughs. He did it again – it’s cringey. You could almost hear the cringing. And then to come up afterwards, stand over me and go ‘so when are we going for this drink?’. He’s a big guy – it just makes you feel intimidated and it’s just not OK.”

media_camera Melbourne Renegades batsman Chris Gayle at Tullamarine Airport returning from last nights BBL game in Hobart. Picture: Ellen Smith

She said what has been most disappointing is the reaction from the public that Gayle was “just having a bit of fun” when it is endured by many females working in the sports industry on a daily basis.

“It happens … 10 times a day when you’re a female in this sports industry, and that’s just a fact,” Meadows said.

“Whether it’s that the women’s toilets aren’t open and the men’s toilets are, whether it’s somebody saying something slightly inappropriate to you as you walk down a hallway – 10 times a day, without fail.

“We do not need that to happen to us in our workplace. That’s what it is – our workplace. Mel has been doing this job for 10 to 15 years and she’s been doing it with respect. Her career now gets defined by this.

“The same thing has happened to me, the same thing has happened to Yvonne Sampson from Channel 9 and the same thing to Erin Molan at Channel 9.

“We have successful careers and they get defined by idiots saying the wrong thing inappropriately and then other people laughing as though it’s the one thing that’s ever happened. It is the tip of the iceberg.”

Emotional ESPNcricinfo journalist Melinda Farrell said she feels most sorry for McLaughlin and that “no one wants to be ‘that girl’”.

“It’s (become) so normal that you don’t say anything, because if you did, you’d be jumping up and down all the time,” she said.

“We probably accept things because no one wants to be ‘that girl’. No one wants to be that girl in the Jamie Briggs incident – because all the attention is now focused on that person and what they do. No one wants to be the girl who brought the case in the (David Jones sexual harrassment) incident. You want to be judged on your work.

“(Gayle) says there’s no harm done, for starters. How does he know?”

Former Australian Test batsman Chris Rogers, who captained Gayle in 2012 at the Sydney Thunder, said word travelled fast about Gayle’s antics and that a number of teams wanted nothing to do with him.

“The reason he hasn’t played in the BBL for a little while because that’s what was said – stay away from Chris Gayle, because he brings more trouble than he’s worth,” he said.

“From my time at the Thunder, I was very disappointed in his attitude and his behaviour. I’ve never been a fan since.

“To defend it is not right at all. I don’t see it as funny at all. He says it’s just a joke. It’s not – is it.

“This guy … brings crowds, but equally, you can’t tolerate that behaviour.”

Rogers admitted the potential of lining up alongside Gayle at county side Somerset next season is going to prove “difficult”.

I would have liked to have been on air. I wouldn’t have laughed,” he said.

“I know this guy. It’s difficult because he might be playing at Somerset this coming year.”