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Lisa Wilkinson denies rumours of rift

"I'm not going to sit meekly by and take this," says Today host after press speculate on a rift with Sylvia Jeffreys.

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It’s an angle as old as TV itself: on-air TV presenters are really off-air rivals.

Sometimes it’s true. A lot of the time it isn’t. But it makes for good gossip.

Breakfast television is frequently in the cross-hairs when it comes to such rumours.

Now Lisa Wilkinson has taken to social media to refute the latest after the Sydney Morning Herald quoted unnamed sources that the Today show host had a frosty relationship with Sylvia Jeffreys.

“As you all know @sylviajeffreys & I are great mates and love working together,” she wrote. “But for some bizarre reason, a journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald decided to report on supposed “rumours of a rift” between us this weekend.

“So let me tell you here what I told him – and I quote – “complete bullshit!” And when I suggested that the source that contacted him with this “rumour” could be someone not happy with @thetodayshow now being the Number One breakfast show in the country, he agreed. But it was printed anyway. And now The Daily Mail website has jumped on board with the same rubbish – “reporting” on the “reports” – alongside suitably frozen moment headshots of Sylvia and me on camera looking like “mean girls” to somehow prove…look, who knows what the hell they were trying to prove.

“Well, sorry, I’m not going to sit meekly by and take this. Sylvia and I couldn’t enjoy working together, be more supportive, or respect each other more. THAT, in fact, should be the headline! But obviously that sort of good news – or the crazy idea of women supporting women – doesn’t sell newspapers these days. #girlpower”

Wilkinson, Jeffreys and Karl Stefanovic host the Logies red carpet this Sunday.

6 Responses

  1. I a big fan of Sylvia .when she hosted the show she was really good .I would say Lisa feels threatened there seems to be tension on air .Lisa better not take any more days off or might not have a job next time .it would be great to see Sylvia and Peter host the show full time they have better rapport than Karl and Lisa .

  2. interesting a couple of weeks ago they were running promos for the today show in perth and only showed karl and sylvia with no lisa. seems strange that lisa and karl would not be hosting the logies red carpet, why do they need sylvia simply for eye candy? i think the real story is that nine management seems more interested in sylvia than lisa.

    1. You’re calling ratbag celebrity stories “smoke” now? This is just another example of someone in the news media not doing their research (or doing it and going with the “story” anyway).

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