Chris Smith announces comeback on internet talkback radio station TNT

Broadcaster Chris Smith has found new work as a presenter two months after he lost his gigs with Sky News Australia and 2GB in the wake of allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

Broadcaster Chris Smith has found new work as a presenter with online talkback station TNT Radio two months after he lost his gigs with Sky News Australia and 2GB in the wake of allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

Smith made the announcement on social media Wednesday afternoon, saying, “a new job, a new start, a whole new opportunity.”

He will host the 3pm to 5pm shift from Monday to Friday, starting next week.

“It is not just a new job,” Smith told The Daily Telegraph.

“I have delved deeper than ever before on why I self sabotage with the help of rehab, psychiatrists and psychologists, plus I have given up the grog completely.

Chris Smith announces his new gig on TNT Radio. Picture: Facebook

“I have been 75 days sober this week, which I have never had the guts or professional help to do, thinking I could always manage my binges but I couldn’t and I can’t and I never will so I have come to that realisation and I had to bite the bullet and get rid of it.”

Smith, 60, checked himself into a mental health facility in December after apologising profusely for his “humiliating” behaviours.

Smith says he has sought professional help for his drinking and been sober for 75 days. Picture: Richard Dobson

At the time, he was axed from his high profile radio and television jobs following incidents after a work Christmas party.

“I put my head down and bum up and forgot about getting jobs and sorted myself out once and for all,” he said.

“I don’t think I’ve ever appreciated a job more in my life because it is a lifebuoy that has come just at the right time for me.

“Despite what has happened, nothing has changed in the way that I do my job, it was all about off-field performance so I was terribly upset about never broadcasting again but this has come and who knows where it leads.”

Chris Smith was a popular host with multiple hosting jobs on 2GB and Sky News.

Smith was drinking with colleagues at Sydney bar The Establishment after the Sky News Christmas party had concluded when the alleged incident took place.

Multiple eyewitnesses alleged at the time that Smith made a series of lewd comments to female colleagues before inappropriately touching more than one woman, leaving one in tears and forcing another to strike him.

Smith is married to dietitian Susie Burrell, who has previously helped him get fit and healthy. Picture: Richard Dobson

Smith claimed to have had no recollection of the events and blamed the lapse on bipolar disorder and alcohol addiction — the same explanation he gave for allegedly harassing four female colleagues at the 2GB Christmas party in 2009.

“I am still enormously remorseful to the staff at Sky who I let down, to the people I became a pain to,” he said. “I am still enormously sorry for that.”

According to the TNT Radio website, the outlet is “the only 24/7 online news talk station dedicated to freedom globally.”

“From powerful Information Operations that determine how the public thinks about COVID-19 and the Ukrainian/Russian War, to the persecution of Julian Assange, TNT Radio covers the biggest topics of our time,” the site reads.