Karl Stefanovic has opened up about his very public divorce from Cassandra Thorburn.
The television presenter, who returned to the Today show at the start of the year, separated from his wife of 21 years in 2016.
Now, a year on from his lavish wedding to Jasmine Yarbrough, the 45-year-old has spoken to Neil Mitchell on 3AW about dealing with his marriage breakdown in the public eye.
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“Personally, it was a bit hard because I thought a lot of people do go through relationship difficulties and, unfortunately, for me that was in a very public way, but that’s what happens when you’re a public person,” Stefanovic said on the radio show yesterday.
“But I thought, ‘Well hang on, a lot of people go through this, and why is mine such a big deal?’ I still don’t know why it was,” he continued.
“I got divorced, I did find love again, and I’m sorry if people are offended by that, but it’s made me really happy.”
Just months after Stefanovic split from Thorburn, the Channel Nine presenter met Yarbrough, a decade his junior, while onboard a luxury cruise ship in Sydney.
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I’m not sure it was the divorce that was the problem, but perhaps how he paraded his new life? I know everyone has the right to find happiness and people move in, but personally I thought it was a bit insensitive to his kids who happened to be at delicate ages and having to navigate their parents pending divorce. I feel a bit of discretion in those early days would have gone a long way.
He didn't "parade" his new life. Having the Daily Mail photograph you while you go about your daily business is not "parading" anything. They didn't sell their story when they first got together, nor splash everything around social media. Short of going into witness protection, I'm not sure how they could have stayed any more low-key. Are you criticising that they chose to have an elaborate wedding? Why should they not? It was the bride's first marriage - why should she have to sneak off to a registry office somewhere on the down-low? They didn't do anything wrong - people get divorced and remarried all the time.
Last year after he was removed from the today show and he decided to ah low, we barely heard a word about Karl. It can be done.
I never said anything about his wedding or about him finding love again, just that he could have been more discreet in the early days for his children. Please do not try to find cause for outrage when there is none.
I'm personally not outraged at all - I find all the outrage over how he "flaunted" anything bemusing. I'm curious: what exactly did he do that you feel was so "indiscreet" in the early days? Is it that he dared to go out in public and not go into witness protection so as not to be papped? It's not surprising that there was less attention on him after he left the Today Show - his relationship was old news by then.