As well as a man in a blonde wig portraying Delta, one man is dressed in blackface to represent Seal complete with black paint over his face and arms and fake scars on his cheeks.
"That is hilarious!! Hope u had fun! Ha!!," Goodrem wrote on Twitter before retweeting the photo.
Goodrem’s tweet was soon deleted after comedians started branding Goodrem "racist".
"Nah, blackface isn't hilarious, Delta. It's racist," Fear of a Brown Planet’s Nazeem Hussain tweeted to Goodrem.
Editor's note: This website has chosen not to publish the photo, as it may offend some readers.
"In reference to a parody of the four coaches that was on Twitter, my retweeting was not intended to cause offence in any way," the singer told News Limited.
Hussain’s comedy partner Aamer Rahman tweeted the show and Goodrem’s fellow judges stating
"Gosh it must be horrible to work with someone as stupid and racist as @DeltaGoodrem."
Comedian Felicity Ward compared the photo to the Jackson Jive blackface controversy seen on Hey Hey It’s Saturday in 2009.
Ward tweeted "So Delts just RTd a picture of a dude "blacking up" as Seal. If Hey Hey it's Saturday has taught us anything at all... "
Will Johnson, who posted the original picture, replied to Rahman stating "just relax @aamer_rahman this was a dress up party and we wanted to go as something topical. Nothing more to it."
heraldsun.com.au 13 May 2013
The primary objective of the corporate media is to keep the general populous entertained.
In order to keep the masses entertained, the corporate media stages certain controversies, either emanating from directives given by producers or the corporate media itself.
In this instance the matter has been (deliberately?) blown way out of context, as racism is now the in flavour for litigation.
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