So “Doing a ScoMo” is shitting your pants? Classy.
Jonesy will co host with Sonia for the next two days starting tomorrow morning. While Dickie is in London for Beatles Week on ‘Today’
Tim Davies would’ve been a much better choice to co-host than Jonesy.
There’s still advertorials on the 2015 Mornings set airing today. Seriously!
Tuesday 1 October-
Today Extra with David and Sonia is coming from Studio 22 this morning.
I would never look at the advertorials that closely to notice.
Thursday 3 October & Friday 4 October-
Richard Wilkins is back co-hosting with Sonia.
Wednesday (16.10.2019):
Richard Wilkins is co-hosting with David today. Sonia likely went home sick; she recorded the opener.
It was mentioned this morning that she left early yesterday because of a ‘stomach bug’.
The Sunday Telegraph’s Annette Sharp is reporting that Sonia could be replaced by Georgie Gardner as host of Today Extra in 2020, a claim Nine denies. Sonia attended Nine’s 2020 upfronts in Melbourne this week.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/kruger-under-review-say-sources-as-nine-bosses-shakeup-today/news-story/b2ce779419aea12fff16cc277811558e
sounds like The Daily Mail to a tee.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Nine have planted this story to minimise the damage when she is replaced on mornings. Given Craig McPherson has now returned to Seven, Nine would not be throwing the $$$ at her to continue with Today Extra, she is easily replacable on The Voice.
Strategically I would expect them to make some low ball offer that will cause her to walk away from the network, and prevent Nine from looking like the bad guy for “boning” her as they seek to revitalise Today.
Just to be clear, despite the rumours of Georgie Gardner being shafted to Extra, Sonia has been offered a new deal:
Reportedly, no confirmation of that yet from Nine.