He was made to smash the cake on air with a rolling pin.
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As you would!
Otherwise, congratulations; 30 years with one company, a rare achievement in any industry but especially television.
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They built their followers up when they started posting random stuff from Reddit and other social media pages that has nothing to do with the show. Clever strategy
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Today had a rare ratings win yesterday (by 3,000).
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JBar
May 5, 2017, 2:32am
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Very funny Rap Battle between Karl & Lisa and Fitzy & Wippa on Nova 96.9 today.
Watch part of it here:
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The full rap battle here: https://youtu.be/tn52a2hOaVM
Quite funny actually - love the jabs about Karl and the Paparazzi
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JBar
May 5, 2017, 9:08am
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Yes. They pre-record it because they often have celebrities who can’t be there so early in the morning. They’ve had people like Richard Wilkins and Sarah Harris on before who are also on television at the same time of day.
Lisa Wilkinson: “I’ve not had enough sleep for 10 years.”
…The years before Wilkinson started on Today had been ones of uninterrupted dominance for Seven’s Sunrise. Melissa Doyle and David Koch were unassailable, and the harder Today scrambled to keep up, the further it fell behind. Producers were struggling to get the on-set chemistry right….
Stefanovic: Jessica Rowe had an appalling time…I am thrilled with her success now. I remember there were articles that the show was going to be canned, that’s how bleak it got.
Wilkinson: I thought, ‘It may last a week, it may last six months, it may last longer than that’… I never could have imagined it would last 10 years…When we started out, we were both very jovial people, … Over time we started to get to know each other on a much deeper level, and the presenting was enriched by that… I think viewers have never valued breadth of experience, or kilometres on the clock, more…
[Head of Video for NewsLifeMedia, publisher of Stellar, and former breakfast E.P, Adam Boland added,] "The thing that always struck me about Lisa was that people talk a lot on TV, but very few actually have something to say…Lisa does. She always did…Today was on its knees at the time…If you think like Lisa you would consider that an opportunity, because she is a fighter…”
… There’s long been gossip speculating that Stefanovic wants to move on from Today… but Boland thinks it’s Wilkinson who may outgrow the role…
Boland: I would love to see Lisa evolve…she risks being wasted…[Lisa] is what Karl needed… I think sitting alongside Lisa changed the way the audience perceived him and the show generally…
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TODAY will be doing a live OB from Ipswich on Friday.
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Will they be in Canberra tomorrow/Wed for the budget?
Typically, both breakfast shows will be live in Canberra on Wednesday to deliver the aftermath/affects. As you would recall, last year, Karl and Lisa were both in Canberra when that infamous tenting incident occurred.
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JBar:
Karl pitched a tent?
Look I know the budget gets him excited…
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I think for the first time in years, neither Lisa nor Karl are live in Canberra this morning. However, Ross Greenwood is and is covering the Federal Budget verdict.
Extremely limited coverage of budget on Today.
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