Nine hung me out to dry over staged live cross, says former Today presenter Jessica Rowe
TV presenter Jessica Rowe has claimed she was “hung out to dry” by Nine’s management over an embarrassing incident which helped end her brief tenure hosting the network’s Today Show.
Rowe, who now co-hosts Studio 10 for the Ten Network, revisited the infamous 2006 live cross in her new memoir, which is published today, and said that the fault lay with producers of the show.
Rowe said she was “pilloried” in the media after she conducted an interview with Brigadier Michael Slater and asked him if he felt in danger because he had armed soldiers guarding him – only for him to reply that they had been placed in the shot by a Nine stage manager.
In the Allen & Unwin book, Rowe recounts her unhappy time with the Nine Network under the brief leadership of then CEO Eddie McGuire.
I wonder what Gynge thinks about this?
Can’t help her husband much who reads the 6pm news.
Why do people like to ring up the past? dont they move on in thier lives. We are not interested in what happenned in the past
I had forgotten all about this until Jess brought it up again. I would have thought she would have preferred to leave it in the past as well.
Yawn. DILIGAF.
Jessica was hopeless with Stephanovic and had to go. They needed a strong female presenter and Rowe just wasn’t cutting the mustard. Eddie had to sack her but in true Eddie form he didn’t do it the right way.
Sounds like EP McKnight has set Channel 10 up for a easy constructive dismissal case.
Surly someone on his pay scale must know better.