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“It’s complete fiction”: Karl & Lisa back?

Nine debunks the latest fake news magazine story.

Channel Nine has denied a magazine cover story “Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson shock: Yes, we’re back!”

New Idea quotes an unnamed insider suggesting Deb Knight & Georgie Gardner want Karl to return to Today in order to boost ratings.

“They have both come up with the same idea and want to co-host alongside Karl,” an unnamed insider told the mag.

Amazing stuff….

But Nine spokesperson Adrian Motte told TV Tonight, ”It’s complete fiction.”

Lisa Wilkinson also became part of the story via speculation around the wild concept that Karl Stefanovic could be a dream team for The Project.

But Stefanovic remains contracted to Nine and will return in This Time Next Year later in 2019.

It was a nice try but mags are rife for misleading stories around names that pique interest. The Karl & Lisa era ended in 2017, reminding us that all good duos part ways eventually. Unless you’re Rick & Susannah….

New Idea is published by Seven West Media’s Pacific Magazines.

15 Responses

  1. When Don Trump talks about “fake news” he is referring to the New Idea, I remember as a kid it being called “No Idea” at it seems they still have no idea. If you read and believe this magazine then you’re probably the kind of person who still leaves cookies out for Santa and are afraid of a black cat walking across your path.

  2. i mean seriously, the man left his wife and found love in another women. Happens everyday in every walk of life, but this bloke, because he was on TV, gets crucified. Now the Today show has 2 female hosts and everyone hates it. I don’t. I really don’t have any favourite morning show. And if you are buying magazines then good luck to the drivel thats written in them.

    1. I think the Today show didn’t know where to draw the line with the “guy” humor. At first it was great banter between Cameron and Karl, then as the years passed, it just overpowered the format, putting Lisa and Georgie in an awkward spot at times. Just my assessment of where it started to go wrong.

  3. Do you think if Today had paid Lisa what she was asking for (equal pay) they would both still be there? Lisa was, in my opinion, a bigger asset to the show than Karl. It all seemed to go downhill after her departure.

  4. Kate & Will are pregnant again, Jen is in a love triangle with Brad and Ange, everyone hates Meghan today because she breathed, Sam Armitage was seen eating lunch and all the celebrities you can think of are pregnant.

    Utter Garbage!!

    1. Don’t recall a date, these things are usually private. Greg Evans was once kept at a network without any role because they didn’t want him surfacing anywhere else and becoming competition.

  5. “They have both come up with the same idea and want to co-host alongside Karl” an unnamed writer wrote after watching the episode of Get Krack!n where the Kates were delighted to welcome Brendan O’Hara to the couch…

  6. No Idea…does anyone think anything on that cover is genuine….well, apart from maybe Sam Mac⁉
    Something just as silly will be in Womans Daze….as Jake S said…why?

    1. For the scandalous tittle-tattle that’s why. I’m still laughing about the Jen & Ange Shock Fight title. If that happened I suspect TMZ would have footage, then I’d believe it. The ones I feel for here is Deborah, Georgie & Co. They’re working hard to present the Today show only for some in the media attempting to undermine that work ethic.

  7. If these snake oil salesmen were to be believed, you’d think that each member of the British and Danish royal families, every portmanteaued celebrity couple, and the Newtons have divorced and remarried more times than Zsa Zsa Gabor, Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Logan, and Jennifer Lopez combined.

  8. Funny enough there was never even a whisper about Lisa joining The Project before it happened but there was a rumour a few years back from reasonably legitimate sources Karl would join a revamped Project.

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