Sunrise, Today and Wake Up: behind the on-air smiles, it’s war
From: The Weekend Australian Magazine
March 01, 2014
Today’s Lisa Wilkinson: “There are lots of things Karl and I don’t agree on.” Picture: Ellis Parrinder Source: Supplied
BEHIND the relaxed facade of breakfast TV, tensions are high. As media maven Lisa Wilkinson attests, it’s no place for the faint-hearted...
“When we first met at the Logies, it was love at first sight, I could feel it in my gojis.”
It’s 7.44am and Karl Stefanovic is getting in early for Valentine’s Day, surprising co-host Lisa Wilkinson on air with a specially commissioned love song. An acoustic indie-pop ditty linking warm memories with dubious rhymes bounces along beneath a montage of highlights from their seven years sharing a tasteful cream couch on Nine’s breakfast show Today. A bracing hook line reminds us that Seven’s Larry Emdur famously introduced them while propping up the bar at the 2007 Logies.
“My pretty Mona Lisa, I’m glad Larry let me meet ya.”
An assistant waits in the wings with a tray of green juice. Behind the coiled nests of electrical cords and a monitor sporting a sticky-taped photo of Stefanovic with a blacked-out tooth sits a platter of fruit. (You just know they’re having coffee and muffins over at Sunrise.) On camera, Stefanovic, 39, ribs Wilkinson, 54, about her watermelon-eating technique; she grabs his hand fondly.
FULL STORY: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/sunrise-today-and-wake-up-behind-the-onair-smiles-its-war/story-e6frg8h6-1226836101010
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