Studio 10’s Jessica Rowe on being fired while on maternity leave | Mumbrella360 video
During the following session from Mumbrella360, Studio 10’s Jessica Rowe explains how Nine bosses encouraged her to “step aside” from her role on the Today breakfast show while on maternity leave. Their reason? “The challenges of motherhood”.
CEO of Ogilvy PR Kieran Moore moderates the following session on growth through adversity from Mumbrella360, in which the panelists lay out how a series of career and personal setbacks impacted their lives irrevocably.
Studio 10 host Jessica Rowe kicks off the session by discussing how her TV career collapsed after she was fired by Nine while on maternity leave:
“I recall after having a meeting with various lawyers who told me they were ready to muscle up for a fight, I had a six-week-old baby at home. I remember coming home, I was all dressed up in my armour of makeup and business suit, and I remember lying on my front lawn while my mum patted my head because I felt like my world had fallen apart.
why is this being brought up after so many years? is that all jessice rowe is about?
She’s not ‘bringing this up now’.
Someone produced a show about career setbacks and how they affected people. She happened to have a story that was relevant to the theme of the show so she told the story.
She’s not seeking damages. Just telling a story.
Hope I’m never in the trenches with her. I’ve never heard a bigger whinging ‘victim’ in my life. Put on another record fgs. You’re boring us all to death.