The Australian prime minister has ended up with two left feet after an awkward Photoshop effort on his website.
Liberal party politician Scott Morrison was sworn in as PM in August.
On the official prime minister's website, a photo is prominently featured showing 50-year-old Morrison and his family relaxing in a garden.
However, eagle-eyed social media users noticed something a bit off about the image...
#auspol story of 2019: our latest PM (ScoMo) had nice white shoes photoshopped onto his feet for his official https://t.co/eXNtcX7xTa site?! Yup. Regular bloke. Our tax dollars hard at work. #shoegate pic.twitter.com/kA0gG0yy9L
— Luke (@lukerhn) January 8, 2019
It quickly emerged that Morrison's old runners had been haphazardly edited out and replaced with a glistening white pair.
Amid much mockery on social media, the edited photo was swiftly taken down and replaced with the original image - tattered runners and all.
Morrison, for his part, took to Twitter to make light of the Photoshop gaffe:
Message to my Department (PM&C): I didn’t ask for the shoeshine, but if you must Photoshop, please focus on the hair (lack thereof), not the feet! ??
Here they are in all their glory - my footwear of choice whenever I can get out of a suit. pic.twitter.com/hKKUstnArq— Scott Morrison (@ScottMorrisonMP) January 8, 2019
Unsurprisingly, the Internet has very much taken advantage of #shoegate:
The Prime Minister’s office has released a photo of Scott Morrison catching a train to work this morning #regularguy #shoegate pic.twitter.com/PoYGhSpNIG
— The Shovel (@TheShovel) January 8, 2019
Yo did I do this right?#Shoegate pic.twitter.com/cW2axIecQQ
— Greig White (@schnozzman) January 8, 2019
The shoes are real, they just photoshop in whoever is currently prime minister.
— Cartoonist For The Australian Newspaper (@jonkudelka) January 8, 2019
