There’s a certain level of public attention that comes with the Stefanovic surname.
So much so that Peter Stefanovic – Channel Nine journalist and younger brother of Today Show host Karl Stefanovic – says it’s something that affects him and wife Sylvia Jeffreys on a daily basis.
Speaking to news.com.au, the 36-year-old spoke about the “unrelenting” attention they receive from paparazzi, to the point where it nearly drove him and Sylvia to elope before their wedding in April 2017.
In the end, they stuck to their guns and got married at a private estate in NSW’s Kangaroo Valley.
“We are just journalists at the end of the day,” said Peter, adding that both him and Sylvia have always felt uncomfortable around paparazzi.
“We did think about [eloping] when we realised there might be potentially a drone involved. We thought maybe we should just do something beforehand quickly at home and then have the party afterwards.”
Now over a year on from their wedding, their relationship is still making headlines. Just this week Sylvia publicly called out New Idea which surmised they were “in relationship hell”.
“Today’s offering from the ‘Fabricated Stories Based on Unflattering Papparazzi Photos’ file. Why no byline @NewIdeamagazine? #itsanextensivefile,” she tweeted on Tuesday.
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Interestingly, I didn't know who these two people were until they got married. Thanks to clever publicity (which I am sure their own people were driving), their names and news of their wedding was splattered everywhere. And now they're sad because the tabloids still want a piece of them?