Annette Sharp: Karl Stefanovic capped a year of stupidity with another stupid act
KARL Stefanovic capped a year of stupidity with another stupid act — a commitment ceremony with his young model fiancee Jasmine Yarbrough, Annette Sharp writes.
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THE bride-to-be is said to have worn white. The groom-to-be, a large idiotic smile.
Probably also short pants and no socks — an outfit entirely in keeping with his recent mental and emotional regression and middle-aged male model aspirations.
No hip manbag this time it seems.
Karl Stefanovic capped a year of stupidity with another stupid act tonight — a commitment ceremony with his young model fiancee Jasmine Yarbrough, something straight out of a teenage girl’s Sweet Dreams novel.
Before a small family group, Stefanovic pledged his love for 34-year-old model Jasmine Yarbrough at dusk at a property atop the cliffs at Palm Beach.
Neither his Nine Network bosses nor his three children knew of Stefanovic’s plans, so off script has the Today show host been since his first marriage to Cassandra Thorburn ended in 2016.
He didn’t listen to bosses when they asked him not to party with Yarbrough in public just months after his marriage broke down and so he’s not listening now — just rediscovering his youth or having a midlife crisis. Or both.
The commitment ceremony confirms a couple of things. One, he’s in love.
And two that he’s unwilling or unable to marry Yarbrough at the present time.
So a pledge will have to do — a pledge before his children to first wife Cassandra Thorburn, children who have been so confused by their parent’s break-up and their dad’s hasty new love affair they barely recognise their former lives.
Sources yesterday claimed Stefanovic failed to prepare his children for the ceremony — telling them instead it was just a party.
Imagine how they will feel if the rumours Stefanovic has had his vasectomy reversed are proven true.
A commitment ceremony is not legally binding of course.
He has now bought himself time to grow up — again — to start wearing long pants and maybe even win back the respect he has lost.
The ceremony, held at dusk under a rudimentary arbour that looked like a soccer goal, was held at the home of Rob Rankin, the former lieutenant of James Packer, who introduced the couple at about the same time Packer and Rankin were falling out.
Sources for Stefanovic were last night still trying to make sense of the ceremony and were unable to provide details.