The breakfast radio host Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli has a unique idea to keep his house tidy

EARLY mornings are par for the course for thisbusy dad and radio host.

Breakfast radio host Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli with baby Jack, nine months. Pictures: Bob Barker

• Who: Michael “Wippa” Wipfli is a radio host on Nova 96.9’s Fitzy & Wippa breakfast show and from 6pm-7pm, with Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald.

• Where: Three-bedroom home he shares with his wife and two children, Ted and Jack, in Sydney’s east

• Favourite thing: Baby Jack. He’s new to the family but he’s fattening up at 100 miles an hour. His big brother Ted is 18 months, so we’ve got a couple very close in age.

• Inspiration: With the show, a lot of the time it’s not knowing what you can create. I think they are some of the most exciting moments. The freedom of what we can do. The brainstorms that we have, the lists we’ve got going, holding on to ideas and revisiting them later. And the reflection of the listeners calling is great, that’s a huge driver. Always being open on the show and getting everyone involved

• Home is: The ultimate happiness. Each night between 6.30 and 7 o’clock Ted and I sit on the couch and we watch the show In The Night Garden and it’s just the best thing in the world. He rests his head against you and you sit there on the couch and point out the funny characters, that’s the highlight of my day.

MICHAEL Wipfli has a unique idea to keep his house tidy — a rug with eyelets on each corner. Wires will attach to the eyelets so the rug can be lifted up towards the ceiling via a pulley system, removing his children’s toys from the floor.

The idea may be crazy, innovative and funny in one, but that’s hardly surprising from the man best known as Wippa, co-host of the Fitzy & Wippa radio show on Nova 96.9.

He’s been on air with Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald for the past six years, keeping listeners entertained with their endless jokes.

“I don’t think he’s listened to me yet, but I believe in the seventh year he will,” Wippa says of Fitzy, with a laugh.

“He’s partly deaf, that’s why he yells and I’m still hoping he can learn there’s not a ‘K’ on the end of something.

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“Hopefully he’ll stop saying somethink — besides that we’re pretty strong as mates.”

Breakfast radio does come with one downside and that’s having to get up at 4am.

Not that that’s unusual in Wippa’s house. He and wife Lisa recently became parents again and they now have two small children — Ted is 19 months and baby Jack is 13 weeks.

The family’s home is more than a century old, with three bedrooms upstairs and bi-fold doors that open to the back patio.

“We bought this when we realised we were going to be parents, although we didn’t plan on being parents so quickly the second time around,” he says. “But I had no idea how many toys and things you’d accumulate so quickly.”

Fitzy & Wippa can be heard on Nova 96.9 from 6am-8am and from 6pm-7pm weekdays.

Framed artwork: This is by my fav artist CJ Hendry, a Queensland girl now dominating the art scene in New York,