It’s All True podcast: Grant Denyer reveals reason he quit TV
Grant Denyer has spoken for the first time about the real reason he quit as the Sunrise weatherman, telling of the moment he first arrived at the decision.
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Grant Denyer has finally revealed his reason for quitting breakfast television.
The 43-year-old presented the weather on top morning TV show, Sunrise, from 2004 to 2012 before making a shock exit from the prime spot.
At the time, he gave little explanation for the decision.
Speaking on his new It’s All True podcast with wife Chezzi Denyer, the father of two with another on the way explained that his decision was made after covering back to back natural disasters for the show.
“It was a very heavy toll after that,” he said. “You are there telling human stories but people are hurting and we are both (Chezzi and Grant) empaths so that just gets kind of … you just get really weighed down with it. It was a hectic period and I was like, I don’t think I can do this anymore. I was wiped.”
The natural disasters Denyer refers to are the Queensland floods of 2010 and 2011, into a cyclone and then Christchurch earthquake of February 2011.
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Chez was pregnant with the couple’s first child, Sailor, at the time.
Working as a weather presenter meant Denyer was on the road for a large part of the year. And in travelling so much, he was often the closest to breaking news and was deployed to report from those situations.
The gruelling travel schedule combined with the volatility and unpredictability of the news schedule.
Earlier in his career Denyer worked as a news reporter and journalist in regional television.
It was in that time that Denyer recalls being sent to cover a car accident that led to unresolved psychological trauma, compounded by the Sunrise natural disasters.
“I’m there and I’m seeing bits of body and a headless torso sitting in the driver’s seat,” he said. “I wasn’t equipped to see that shit. There was bits of brain everywhere. You go from a decapitation to a cat up a tree.”