Roberts slams Rice for anti-gay comments

Ian Roberts has described Stephanie Rice as a "complete idiot".

The Australian rugby player, who announced that he was gay towards the end of his career, said that Rice's sponsors should reconsider their endorsement of her after she made anti-gay comments on her Twitter page.

On Saturday night, after the Australian rugby team beat the South African Springboks, she tweeted: "Suck on that f*ggots."

Roberts later told the Herald Sun: "She is an idiot... and anyone who continues to endorse her as an athlete is an idiot as well. And I say that with a very sad tone in my voice. What a fool. And if her sponsors don't do something about it, they're fools as well."

Rice has now issued a statement saying: "I did not mean to cause offence and I apologise. I have deleted it from the site."