Gossip Queen: Grubby and Dee Dee to return to breakfast radio

IT is lucky seven for much-loved radio duo Dee Dee Dunleavy and Peter “Grubby” Stubbs, who will make a surprise but welcome return to breakfast radio next month.

Peter ‘Grubby’ Stubbs with Diane ‘Dee Dee’ Dunleavy.

IT is lucky seven for much-loved radio duo Dee Dee Dunleavy and Peter ”Grubby” Stubbs, who will make a surprise but welcome return to breakfast radio next month.

Seven years after departing the breakfast shift at Gold FM, the pair will hold the fort for 3AW’s breakfast kings Ross Stevenson and John Burns while they take their mid-year ratings survey break.

Stubbs and Dunleavy will host the all-important slot for a week, starting on July 9.

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“We are thrilled to be asked and are very much looking forward to the week, although I don’t remember what getting up at 3am looked like,” Dunleavy said on Saturday.

Dee Dee Dunleavy and Peter ‘Grubby’ Stubbs. Picture: Julie Kiriacoudis

“But we did do breakfast together for 25 years so hopefully it will be like putting on an old slipper.

“We are certainly not going to move the furniture. We don’t want to break anything.

“We just want to look after everything while Ross and John are away and hopefully have a bit of fun.”

Stubbs and Dunleavy are one of Melbourne’s most enduring radio partnerships, having hosted breakfast at Fox FM for 13 years and Gold FM for 12 ½ years.

They left Gold at the end of 2011 and have become a valued and respected part of the AW family with their popular Weekend Break show.

Meanwhile, Stevenson and Burns continue to show a clean set of heels to all comers with their show pulling a massive 20 per cent share of the breakfast market in the most recent ratings results. They have won more than 120 consecutive ratings surveys.

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