Kate Abdo shuts down Jamie Carragher in painfully awkward

Jamie Carragher and Kate Abdo were involved in an awkward exchange over her relationship to her boyfriend during CBS Sports' Champions League coverage.

The pair were pitchside at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night alongside Thierry Henry and Micah Richards, when Carragher suggested Abdo should wear the Arsenal shirt he had been asked to put on.

Earlier in the show, the former Liverpool defender got Richards to don the shirt after the latter revealed he grew up supporting Arsenal.

But at the end of the shootout, it was Carragher's turn to wear the shirt after being asked to do so by Bukayo Saka in his post-match interview.

Seemingly intent on continuing the trend, Carragher suggested Henry and Abdo should be next in line.

'You [Henry] can wear it next and for the last part [of the show] you [Abdo] have got to wear it,' he told his colleagues.

'No, I'm loyal,' Abdo swiftly replied, before adding 'to Manchester United thank you very much', when asked by Carragher whom she was loyal to.

'You're not loyal to Malik,' the former Liverpool defender fired back, referencing Abdo's boyfriend Malik Scott.

The joke appeared to go down like the proverbial lead balloon with the CBS host, who replied: 'What? How can you even say that?,' while Henry and Richards smiled awkwardly.

Carragher then attempted to explain the comment, noting that Scott 'hasn't had a mention on the show tonight.'

Abdo made her relationship with Scott, Deontay Wilder's trainer, official earlier this month.

The CBS Sports anchor previously saw the name of her partner revealed on air by Carragher and Richards in December last year, after having made jokes about the presenter's new relationship during broadcasts since the start of the season.

And last week, Abdo revealed her partner wants to officially tie the knot.

Speaking to The Athletic this week, the presenter revealed the off-the-cuff nature of CBS' coverage was what made it so special.

'The freedom to be off-script [is why it works], the freedom to be our authentic selves,' she said.

'We’re all very different personalities and bring different assets to the table. But I think as a whole, we all complete each other in some way.

'Working in television, it’s such a source of frustration to me because so often you go into a show and have every single minute accounted for, knowing exactly what’s going to happen over the next hour.

'It takes all the air out of the room for anything to happen spontaneously.

'We go into segments knowing that we have an overall vision for each segment, but if we go totally off that vision, that’s OK.'