Triple M host Lawrence Mooney gets candid about working from home
Radio star Lawrence Mooney says overeating has been his biggest struggle with working from home. Meanwhile, some kid YouTube stars and a famous couple reveal the secret to wedded bliss.
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Millions of Aussies are now working from home due to the global health crisis and for Triple M host Lawrence Mooney, it’s been quite an adjustment.
Mooney and his co-hosts Jess Eva and Chris Page are hosting their breakfast radio show Moonman In The Morning from their respective homes and Mooney told Confidential that overeating has been his biggest struggle.
“This is the end of our third week in isolation and my gut is in its third trimester,” he laughed.
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“There’s fatigue too. I would normally walk home from the office two to three times a week so because I’m not walking home there’s this lethargy that has crept in and I’m finding myself tired for no reason.”
With most of the team juggling children while they work, hosting the show has been more challenging than usual.
“In a way that’s helped to humanise the whole process too because we’re up early on the air, by about 9am the kids are starting to get up and wander in,” he said.
“[The kids] want to put the headphones on and talk to everyone. I’ve got a seven-year-old Maggie who does the same.
“Our executive producer Laura [Bouchet] has a young one as well sitting beside her most mornings with headphones watching something on the iPad, so we get to see one another’s children. You realise that although what we do is very important to us, there’s another dimension to everybody’s life and that is their family.”
Bouchet said maintaining a high-energy atmosphere with everyone working apart has been her biggest challenge.
“There’s nothing quite like the electric and high-energy atmosphere of a live radio show’s studio,” she said.
“You’ve got laughing, yelling, phones ringing off the hook and it’s not even 6:00am yet! Keeping that same level of intensity and fun while working from home can be challenging.
“I don’t think any of our family members particularly enjoy waking up to ‘YOU CAN’T DO THAT’ being belted out at the top of our lungs.”
Despite missing his co-hosts, Mooney said working remotely isn’t all bad.
“Jess and I are remote and Pagey is in at Triple M panelling. It’s worked remarkably well,” he said.
“Maybe there’s a future in keeping talent separated because when you don’t have to put up with someone’s interpersonal stuff everyday I think relationships are more likely to endure. “Where you don’t have to watch someone chew or hear them breathe or watch the way they walk. Once the honeymoon period of a partnership is over and you notice the way someone’s breathing, the relationship is over’.”
WEDDED BLISS
Two years after saying “I do”, Sam Margin and Rosie Tupper say mutual respect is the secret to their strong bond.
The photogenic couple, who met in New York six years ago, celebrated their second wedding anniversary in January and they told Confidential that having a solid foundation is key.
“People say that we’re very relaxed, I don’t know maybe that’s something to do with it I feel like,” Margin said at Estate Coogee last month.
“Maybe we are quite relaxed or at least we come off as being relaxed. We just let each other cruise in the way that we want to. I want her to succeed... it’s great for both of us. There’s no competition or ego.”
The Rubens frontman and the model are parents to 20-month-old Mozes Tupper Margin and Tupper said parenthood has brought them even closer.
“I’m loving it, we’ve been really enjoying it,” she said.
“With our jobs it kind of works nicely too because the days I work, most of the time it works out that Sam’s at home and vice versa. But yeah it’s amazing, I love it.”
Last year, Margin’s band won an APRA award for their song Million Man and Margin said he never imagined they would still be making music after nearly a decade.
“I never thought that we would have a career in music at all, let alone for nearly 10 years,” he said.
KID STARS
YouTube stars Calvin and Kaison have made millions taking toys out of boxes and playing with them on camera, and now they even have their own TV show.
The brothers have a YouTube channel called CKN Toys with 14.7 million subscribers, the most popular YouTube channel in Australia, where they star in videos playing and rating toys that are viewed by hundreds of millions of people.
In total their 650 videos have amassed billions of views and using approximate online figures, 1 billion YouTube views is worth approximately $US900,000.
On Monday the brothers, Calvin, 7 and Kaison, 4, will debut their show on Nickelodeon, Calvin and Kaison’s Play Power!
Nickelodeon general manager Ben Cox said the show moved away from the “unboxing” concept that made the brothers so famous.
“Calvin and Kaisons Play Power! is an Australian produced program for preschool-aged kids that really celebrates the power of play,” he said.
“While the fandom for unboxing content on YouTube is undeniable, in this new show we have moved away from that and instead focused on different elements of play.
“Each episode will see Calvin and Kaison embark on a play-venture in their Kid Cave, which is interrupted by a series of challenges including giant cakes, missing friends, playful monsters and out of control toys.
“In order to overcome these challenges, Calvin must transform into an everyday superhero and use his play power to save the day.”