Marty Sheargold says Nova show with Kate Ritchie, Tim Blackwell was groundhog day
New Triple M host Marty Sheargold has launched a broadside at former co-hosts Kate Ritchie and Tim Blackwell saying he lost interest in the show and was sick of compromising.
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New Triple M breakfast host Marty Sheargold has taken a swipe at his former Nova FM colleagues Kate Ritchie and Tim Blackwell saying he quit their drive show as it was like groundhog day and he was sick of compromising and being censored.
“I had had enough of that show. I’d lost interest in that show,” Sheargold said of his decision to quit.
Melbourne-based Sheargold, 49, was a key part of Nova drive since 2011 and had been teamed with Ritchie and Blackwell in that shift since 2015.
He left Nova in September and was replaced by Joel Creasey.
“I left at the end of my contract so there was no mystery about that, certainly not for myself,” he said.
“I was always going. I had had enough of that show. I’d lost interest in that show and as an enjoyable experience as it was, I am at an age now where if I don’t have a tilt at something, if I didn’t really have a go at something, then I wouldn’t get another window to have a go because I am not getting any younger.
“So I could have sat there for years to be honest, but it was not what I wanted to do.
“It was the same show everyday, it had a real groundhog feel to it and it was really that I wanted an opportunity to go and build something myself.”
Sheargold said he was looking forward to being unshackled and uncensored at Triple M where he would not have to worry about keeping teammates happy.
“There is not the content issues around the compromise that is involved in working in teams because you are often talking about stuff that you are not interested in, but because you are compromising in that team environment you do it, and you do it with a smile, you do it with the right attitude, but after a while you go I am really not doing what I want to do here regardless of how well the show is doing,” he said.
“When you are in a group and you start saying they are a funny old family, they are Melbourne royalty, you can feel everyone else start to pull back and it is like, ‘Gee, I am really sick of being censored.’
“I am sick of saying something and someone going, ‘they are an old friend of mine’, it is like, ‘Oh, who cares,’ it is not personal.”
Sheargold is replacing Eddie McGuire in Triple M breakfast next year with Troy Ellis moving from Nova to anchor his show.
Describing himself as the “Buddy Franklin of Triple M,” Sheargold said he was hungry for success in the high profile shift.
“I have always been hardwired to win. You don’t leave a show as successful as that one (Nova Drive) to think that you could only just go OK at the next one,” Sheargold said.
The Marty Sheargold Show kicks off on Monday, January 18, 2020.
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