Michele McPhee, police beat reporter for the Herald, has been hiding a few secrets. For all of her tough talk about crime on the streets, she has a passion for fashion. Unfortunately, she has a strange way of letting that passion show. Word is out on the Web that McPhee has a theory for why fashion designers like skinny models. She said on her WTKK show, "And who do homosexual men like? Little boys."

McPhee told Boston Daily that her comments were taken out of context, and a tape hasn't been released. Maybe she thought she was being funny or shaking the PC cage. We don't know the whole story because the tape isn't public (and it should be made public). But she stuck her hand in a hornet's nest when she said those words in a city still suffering from the fallout of the Catholic abuse scandal.

Sam Baltrusis at EDGE Boston asked a psychiatrist what he thought of McPhee's verbal blunder. The doctor, Jack Drescher, responded, "In this case, it is only funny to those who think gay men are like pedophiles. For those who know this is not true, whether gay or straight people, it’s obviously offensive."

As McPhee waits to see how this turns out, WTKK should release the audio, and McPhee should stay away from the subject of haute couture.

Image of McPhee the fashion expert from EDGE Boston.