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Kim Sears needs parental guidance to cheer on fiance Andy Murray


MELBOURNE, Australia — Andy Murray's fiancée Kim Sears brought her sense of humor to the Australian Open final on Sunday night.

Sears made international headlines on Thursday when a court-side camera caught her rattling off a series of unrepeatable expletives as her husband-to-be engaged in a tense semifinal with Tomas Berdych.

Sears arrived inside Rod Laver Arena with a black sweatshirt with the familiar "Parental advisory, explicit content" stamp on it, the same one often used for CDs or other consumable media.

It was a sarcastic nod to the torrent of media coverage Sears (who is a well-known celebrity in the U.K. because of her connection to Murray) has received since Thursday.

She appeared to let several F-words fly in a moment of frustration during Murray's march.

"When there's a lot of tension surrounding something… then it's completely normal that, yeah, the whole first set everyone was tight," Murray said of Sears' expressive episode. "Yeah, in the heat of the moment you can say stuff that you regret. And, yeah, that's it."

Sears dressed up the sweatshirt, adding a scarf that mostly covered the logo halfway through the first set of Murray's final against Novak Djokovic as temperatures in the Melbourne evening hovered around 65 degrees.