Channel Seven suffers an embarrassing gaffe by broadcasting a rerun of Better Homes and Gardens

He’s suffered one of the biggest career implosions of 2020. 

So when Pete Evans, 47, returned to mainstream television on Monday afternoon, viewers were understandably confused. 

In an embarrassing gaffe, Channel Seven bizarrely aired a rerun of Better Homes and Gardens featuring a glowing profile of the disgraced chef, filmed prior to his spectacular fall from grace. 

During the episode, a clean-cut Pete was seen swanning around his $1.2 million farm in northern New South Wales. 

Flanked by host Johanna Griggs, a cheery Pete gave viewers a tour of his vegetable garden, before launching into a cooking demonstration inside his personal kitchen.   

Soaring music played in the background as Johanna heaped praise on Pete for his bohemian lifestyle. 

‘He’s known to Australian TV audiences as a host and judge on MKR. But there’s another side to him that is not so well known, and a fabulous farm – a slice of heaven here,’ Johanna cooed. 

Pete joined Better Homes And Gardens as a regular guest chef from 2018, but farewelled the gig in 2020 following his departure from Seven in May.  

Since leaving the network, Pete has received widespread backlash for spreading dangerous disinformation about COVID-19, vaccines and the 5G network.

Last month, the conspiracy theorist was sensationally dropped by 15 sponsors and companies in two days after posting a neo-Nazi meme to social media. 

The list includes his publisher Pan Macmillan, bookstore Dymocks, BIG W, Coles, kitchenware company Baccarat, Woolworths, House homewares, Target, Kmart, Booktopia, David Jones and Channel 10’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

The meme was a cartoon of a caterpillar wearing a MAGA cap and a butterfly with the neo-Nazi Black Sun emblem on its wing – with the suggestion being that neo-Nazism is the natural evolution for Donald Trump supporters.

Pete is an enthusiastic supporter of the president and advocates the baseless claim that Joe Biden only won the 2020 election due to voter fraud.

The Black Sun symbol became infamous after it was introduced by top-ranking Nazi Heinrich Himmler during World War II. The symbol has since been adopted by numerous neo-Nazi groups, and by Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant.

Pete seemingly confirmed he was aware of the meaning of the symbol when a fan stated they recognised it, and Pete replied: ‘I was waiting for someone to see that.’

A month earlier, he’d encouraged another Facebook user to ‘have a look at the true history of Germany’.

However, after the scandal made headlines, he denied knowing the racist meaning of the symbol and claimed he had to Google the meaning of ‘neo-Nazism’. 

On Thursday, Pete was slammed for urging Sydneysiders to ‘not get tested’ for COVID-19 amid a growing cluster of 17 infections on the northern beaches.

NSW Health advised all northern beaches residents – some 250,000 people – to self isolate for the next three days and get tested if they visited certain locations or have symptoms on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, Pete had shared an article to Facebook about the first two cases in the area – before it quickly jumped to 17 later in the day.

‘OUTBREAK… Two cases,’ Evans captioned the post, followed by clown-face emojis.

‘Can you see where this is heading again. Testing for the common cold? Do not get tested,’ he added.

Covid-19 is a disease caused by a highly contagious and newly discovered coronavirus, officially called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

The common cold is a completely separate viral infectious disease caused by more than 200 virus strains.

Pete is not a trained doctor and has no medical qualifications.

His Facebook post has since be deleted, either by himself or the social media platform, which has vowed to crack down on misinformation in recent months.