April Fool: Kyle Sandilands to be ABC’s new face of current affairs
This story was published on the morning of April Fool’s Day
T
he ABC is to swoop for Kyle Sandilands as its new face of news and current affairs coverage in a bid to shore up its fading youth ratings, Mumbrella can reveal.
An insider told Mumbrella: “We believe he’s ideal. He’s a lot more savvy about current affairs than people give him credit for. We believe that in time he will be an excellent replacement for Tony Jones on Q&A.
“To start off with though, he’ll front the 7.30 Report while Kerry O’Brien takes a couple of weeks off. “But we believe that where he’ll really come into his own is in interviewing young people. In his time at 2Day FM he’s demonstrated that he’s created a tough but fair style for interviewing teenagers.”
Hahahhahaha!!!!
Happy April 1st.
Fool!
I find that too stupid to be vaguely believable, sorry.
That’s pretty lame, Mumbrella. Must try harder.
haven’t even read the content. the headline was just totally unbelieveable.
April fool jokes are supposed to be vaguely believable for them to fool anyone!
Bwahahahaha! I got sucked in! Thanks Mumbrella 🙂
Stranger things have happened. Was Eddie M made CEO of 9 on April 1?
The Domain one would be hilarious if it wasn’t so ludicrously difficult to actually find pet friendly properties on the site.
The Stackoverflow sites have forced users into having email-generated Unicorn avatars.
stackoverflow.com
IT”S AWESOME
Oh my God, I was about to plan my emigration when I realised what date it is today.. brilliant
oh tim…..
Worst April Fools effort ever.
But Beckham IS joining the socceroos, isn’t he? http://bit.ly/9oiBNa
har de har har
Too obvious..nice try
I got taken in by this from an ad in the SMH – I’m such an easy target.
http://www.artline.com.au/Page.....ickPen.htm
Catchoftheday.com.au announced 3D operations this morning… “3 Deals”
http://www.catchoftheday.com.a.....rticle=485
spoken to Kyle & it’s all true!
You may possibly have got away with it until you mentioned advertising on the ABC
Might read the other bloggers more now. No just kiddin, i still love you Tim
@Fooled,
I saw the same ad and thought ‘awesome, might check it out’ because I had seen a REAL version of the same idea previously and thought of buying one (see http://www.livescribe.com/).
So much for this statement from Artline: ‘It’s not unreasonable to think Artline are pushing the boundaries of innovation. One look at our range of products proves we’ve been doing so for generations.’ And yet you aren’t even aware that someone else has ‘innovated’ the same product you can only conceive of in your wildest April Fools Day fantasies…
‘Innovative’ is an overused, and, in this case, irrelevant word.
WIN bringing back the nine dots…
http://www.mediaspy.org/report.....llsy-move/
I really got FOOLED! First time in aages. Thanks Mumbrella.
http://improveverywhere.com/20.....bway-ride/
Possible NSFW, but it’s blurred, so it’s ok
Seems like you are having fun there downunder ;o)