Kerri-Anne Kennerley reveals bombshell in I’m A Celebrity: ‘My boss unzipped my dress’

Kerri-Anne Kennerley has dropped a bombshell on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!, revealing a TV station owner unzipped her dress at a staff party. Read her response to him.

TV veteran Kerri-Anne Kennerley has detailed a shocking moment in which a boss unzipped the back of her dress.

Speaking in a segment to air-on reality show I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!, the 69-year-old explained: “It was a Christmas party for our show, and as I was standing there, the back of my dress the zip was being unzipped.”

“So as I swung around to basically say stop it and deck said person, I realised it was the station owner. And I did say, zip it up or I will deck you.”

Kennerley, who has worked at numerous stations since beginning her TV career in the late 1960s, did not identify the station owner.

She spoke of the incident in a segment where she and fellow jungle campmate Pete Helliar were discussing the dynamic of the industry.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley attends the 62nd TV Week Logie Awards on June 19, 2022 in Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Asked what she had been up to workwise, Kennerley said: “A couple of projects and bits and pieces. There is no real TV I want to do.”

To that, comedian Helliar responded: “It is a funny landscape, I mean you would have seen a few changes in the landscape … when you were doing TV in the 70s, 80s and 90s, the boys club.”

Kennerley corrected Helliar in that career had spanned the 2000s as well. From 1981, Kennerley helmed her own shows including Midday with Kerri-Anne, Good Morning Australia and Kerri-Anne.

“Chauvinism, harassment, hideous behaviour,” she said. “Executives and producers hitting on the younger girls in there. You know, somebody hits on you and you just draw the line in the sand and … everybody gets back to work, that was just the way it was.”

Kennerley in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

Kennerley is one of 13 contestants competing on the reality show that kicked off this week and is being shot in South Africa.

Regarded a queen of the Australian entertainment industry, Kennerley was nominated for a Gold Logie in 1997, 1998 and 1999. In 2017 she was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame.

Kennerley at a West Side Story premiere in Sydney in 2021.

Kennerley at the Australian premiere of Hamilton in Sydney in 2021.

“The women were all researchers, producers and the guys would sort of tick off yes, yes and then go to lunch for four hours.

“And the show would all get together because most of the women did all of the work.

“At the end of the day, you just want to make good TV. It has always been just about get a job, hang on to it as long as you can, do as well as you can, and when it is over, you get another one.

“You just keep doing it, keep turning up.”

Helliar, who recently wrapped up after many years on The Project panel, described Kennerley as “a true trailblazer”.

“She is a tough broad,” he said, adding of her being cast in the reality show: “This will be another challenge that I am sure she is going to excel at.”