There is news about bushfires, Harvey Weinstein and a pub being robbed in Brisbane’s north east on breakfast show Today this morning…
But beneath the ‘business as usual’ exterior, the tension between co-hosts Karl Stefanovic and Georgie Gardner must be excruciating.
Karl is back on the desk after returning from leave and, in difficult timing, reports that he said Georgie “needs to step up” during a 45-minute private conversation with his brother are making headlines.
The conversation between Karl and his brother, fellow Nine presenter Peter Stefanovic, was reportedly overheard by an Uber driver who had picked up Peter late at night.
Details of the conversation have been published by New Idea this morning, with the driver saying the brothers talked first about Georgie, who Karl accused of “sitting on the fence”.
“He said she didn’t have enough opinions and he wanted her to step up,” the driver, who remains unidentified, told New Idea.
“He actually sounded angry and said he was going to start pushing hard and that she needed to do that if she wanted to stay on the show.”
He said Peter’s wife Sylvia Jeffreys was also in the car, but she did not get involved.
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$50k just by "overhearing" two brothers whinging about work? The uber driver denied he recorded the conversation? The brothers could've denied the conversation ever happened. If there's no recording, how can anyone be sure what the uber driver said was true/accurate? What a fuss over nothing! And some loser got $50k for it.
Nobody likes a fence sitter, and 60 Minutes is tabloid rubbish. Sounds pretty bang-on accurate to me.
You might be right or wrong there Guest - I'll have to get back to you