Working with someone who gets on your nerves isn’t easy at all. So, an Australian television and news presenter Georgie Gardner signed for ‘Nine News Sydney’ instead of sticking with Karl Stefanovic on the Nine Network’s breakfast program ‘Today.’
In 2017, Gardner was confirmed as Karl Stefanovic’s new host for Today, replacing Lisa Wilkinson. But their union was ill-fated since the beginning. Back in 2014, she was well-known of his stereotypical male behavior that led her to leave the Today newsreader. Gardner defined the direction of ‘Nine Network’ as ‘enormous privilege,’ and she wouldn’t treat Karl gently because of the shady past.
She teased him:
“You’re alright, Karl,”
“I’m assuming with you we pick up where we left off. That is me running amok and you keeping me in line,”
She continued joking about the hunch of the peeps who speculate there’s something wrong between them, and the co-hosts loathe one another.
“Jokes aside, you know how much respect I’ve had for you. There’s been a bit of conjecture over the last few weeks how we feel about each other, loathe each other,”
“You know, we have had our bumps, we’ve had our laughs.”
Before their reconciliation, she signed the breakfast show since the senior authority made a promise to her, reassuring she would have to do only a year with Karl.
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After the months of Karl and Georgie’s reunion, an Uber driver disclosed a private 45-minute conversation between Karl and a co-host of First Edition, Peter Stefanovic. As Peter and his wife Sylvia Jeffreys, were on the backseat of the car, an Uber driver heard Karl venting out his anger on Gardner. Karl blamed Georgie that she didn’t have enough opinions on the particular subject matter all the time. He also suggested her to step forward and make a rational decision if she yearned to be seated on the position.
Finally, the public knew they held grudges on one another. There was friction between them. And the Uber gate incident didn’t go well with Nine Network’s production house, which was revealed by Karl, later. Hence, the viewers tuned to the show ‘Today’ to witness the tension between Karl and Georgie.
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Even on Hughesy and Kate’s show, the duo’s connection seemed off. Kate Langbroek, the TV presenter, escorted how Karl and Georgie owned different perspectives that they don’t bond well.
“There’s a fraction of friction between you two,”
Kate Langbroek queried if the pair aren’t harmonious enough to coincide with an opinion.
Gardner answered: “A fraction too much friction,”
Langbroek asked again: “Is there too much?”
Gardner affirmed: “Occasionally,”
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The ‘hate pair’ revealed that their thoughts on President Trump didn’t match, too, when asked what they last fought about. She also remembered the irritable behaviour of Karl while he was pointing out the difference between their dressing room. Then, Stefanovic went to his light mood and joked how he thought she would hit him after the Uber-gate scandal.
“Georgie was so incredibly good about that … I thought she was going to hit me.”
Gardner disclosed she immediately knew that the paper had included the feud between them as she went through the headline’ war at breakfast’. When Hughes asked whether the private conversation between Karl and Peter spoke all truth about her, Karl instantly replied:
“It could have been a lot worse.”
As per the insiders, the pair has hated one another for so long. She didn’t attend Karl’s wedding despite the invitation. They can’t stand each other. In one of the incidents, he refused to watch the footage about a sausage dog event in the UK, since he had an incident with a dog in the past. Newsreader Deb Knight recommended him to face his fear, while Gardner knew he wouldn’t watch the footage as he had said it on the screen. As a result, she labelled him pathetic:
“Well, it’s probably about now I should call you pathetic.”
So, Gardner didn’t go for the hosting responsibilities when Karl returned in the 2020 segment. She joined as a weekend presenter on Nine News Sydney and had “no regrets, even though the scrutiny and public discourse has been daunting and disproportionate. It’s also, at times, been cruel.”
