Weep for Wealthy Wilkinson, Woman of Woe

I’m possibly in the wrong demographic to judge Lisa Wilkinson’s gender pay gap torment. So let’s hear instead from one of Lisa’s friends, fellow Sydney leftist millionaire feminist Mia Freedman.

Gender wage warrior Wilkinson is richer than 99 per cent of men who’ve ever lived. Art by Terry Pontikos

“I can’t remember how I found out that Lisa Wilkinson was leaving the Today show,” Freedman wrote last week in a 2230-word piece for Mamamia:

But I remember it came as a shock. Not just to me, as it turns out. To Australia.

Sure it did. Ten words later:

It was an ordinary Monday night in October 2017 and I was already in my pyjamas. I was doing some work when a news alert came up. Lisa had abruptly left the Today show after 10 years.

So Mia does in fact remember how she found out, right down to the clothes she was wearing at the time. What is it with these gals and their crazy memories?

Next, Mia recalls the scene at Wilkinson’s house on the evening of her Today departure:

I searched Lisa’s face for a read on how she was. In shock, mostly. And definitely rattled. But calm.

Shocked, Rattled and Calm was a big hit for Little Richard in 1956.

More than anyone I have ever met, Lisa has always had an uncanny ability to put herself in the shoes of the audience.

The reader, the viewer, the listener. She gets people. She knows how they receive information.

Via print and screen, mostly.

And lately they’ve received the ­information that certain of Wilkinson’s Today recollections don’t match events as they were recorded:

(Please continue reading Monday's column.)

UPDATE:

Former Today show host Lisa Wilkinson has omitted important details in her new book about a separate $500,000 contract she had with a vitamins company that was a key frustration for Nine management during her contract negotiations in 2017  ...

Johannes Leak's view

In the book she discusses numerous times the “gender pay gap” between her and co-host Karl Stefanovic, who she said was earning much more than her, but it is understood she fails to make any mention of a separate, lucrative contract she had with vitamins company Vitaco (owner of health brand Nutra-Life).

UPDATE II:

Rumours are swirling that Lisa Wilkinson's autobiography 'It Wasn't Meant To Be Like This' could be turned into a Netflix series. 

We now cross live to the set: