Georgia Love set to read news on Kyle and Jackie O show on KIIS FM Melbourne
After being “cancelled” over a racist social media post, the former Bachelorette is making a surprise comeback to Melbourne airwaves on the much-hyped breakfast radio show.
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Georgia Love has made a surprise comeback to Melbourne’s airwaves with the much-hyped Kyle and Jackie O takeover on hold for at least another three months.
Chatter is Love has signed a three-month contract to read the news alongside KIIS FM Melbourne fill-in breakfast presenter Byron Cooke.
Love’s return comes as Kyle and Jackie O’s expected expansion into Melbourne is put on ice again, despite the pair having been on air for a couple of weeks in Sydney this year.
The former Bachelorette has been in the wilderness for a couple of years after she was pulled off the Channel 7 airwaves as a reporter in 2022 for posting a “racist” post to social media.
It was revealed in November that Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson had secured a huge new contract to stay on the airwaves for the next 10 years, with their breakfast show expanding to Melbourne in the new year.
This meant the current KIIS FM breakfast show in Melbourne — hosted by Jase Hawkins and Lauren Phillips — was axed, with the popular duo recording their final show on December 1 last year. The further delay has been described by insiders as just another slap in the face for the well-liked Melbourne duo.
Henderson, who flew to Melbourne to attend the Australian Open finals, insisted there was no strategy behind the delay.
“We were never going to go up at the beginning of the year,” she said. “The exact start I don’t have, but it is pretty soon. That was always the intention.
“I think there’s a couple of things actually, we’re moving studios as well and we’ve got new premises and we didn’t want to do too many things at once. It wasn’t anything too strategic.”
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