No - wrong timing. Two days after the inerview a spokeswoman for KR claimed it had been meant as a joke; but the original interviewer refutes that. I think (but cannot prove of course) that it was a case of "high jinks" and a thoughtless moment on the part of Keith, and a damage limitation exercise followed. In any case, even if it had been meant as a joke I would still find it in poor taste.

But each to his own. Perhaps literally in this case.