Today co-host Allison Langdon defends Karl Stefanovic amid Lisa Wilkinson book backlash

Allison Langdon has made telling comments about her co-host Karl Stefanovic after details emerged of his fractured relationship with Lisa Wilkinson.

Today Show host Allison Langdon has spoken passionately in defence of her co-host Karl Stefanovic, who she says has always “got my back”.

Stefanovic has been under fire since the release of former Today Show co-host Lisa Wilkinson’s autobiography, which detailed their fractured relationship.

Langdon, who joined the breakfast show last year, said Stefanovic had been a constant support.

“I adore working with him and he’s been amazing,’’ Langdon said.

Allison Langdon has come out in passionate defence of Stefanovic after claims made in Lisa Wilkinson’s new book. Picture: David Geraghty

“Sitting with someone you completely trust and I know he’s got my back. Whether they are moments that come out the wrong way, he’ll rescue you or just put you in it completely.

“The relationship between us is authentic and it’s been great working next to him. And learning from him, too. We both have got this approach; my job is to make him look good and his job is to make me look good and it feels like it’s working.

“If you’re going to get up at that hour and go to work each morning at 3.30am, it’s nice to be sitting at the desk with a team that gets along.”

A picture from Wilkinson’s book It Wasn’t Meant To Be Like This: ‘Karl Stefanovic and me at our first photoshoot, just days after I joined the Today show in May 2007’.

Langdon, who is set to host new series Parental Guidance, said it wasn’t for her to directly discuss the past between Stefanovic and Wilkinson.

“I’m of the view that that was all before my time so it’s not appropriate for me to get involved and to comment,’’ she said.

“I can only talk about my experience sitting on the desk now. It’s one of those things Lisa has raised and that’s her story and it’s best for me to leave it at that.”

Langdon says she’s proud of how she and Stefanovic have navigated their way through Covid and lockdown.

Parental Guidance will take viewers behind the closed family doors of parenthood.

Originally published as Today co-host Allison Langdon defends Karl Stefanovic amid Lisa Wilkinson book backlash