Gossip Queen: Brendan Fevola reveals ‘sitting on my butt doing nothing’ as secret to resurrecting career

ACCIDENTAL radio star Brendan Fevola has revealed “sitting on my butt for 50 days doing nothing’’ as the secret to successfully rebuilding his career.

Brendan Fevola says “sitting on my butt for 50 days doing nothing” was the secret to resurrecting his career. Picture: Josie Hayden

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ACCIDENTAL radio star Brendan Fevola has revealed “sitting on my butt for 50 days doing nothing’’ as the secret to his success with the FOX FM breakfast team.

Fevola joined Fifi Box and Dave Thornton on the airwaves last year soon after emerging triumphant from the jungle on I’m A Celebrity …. Get me Out Of Here!

The unlikely trio ended 2016 as Melbourne’s No1 FM breakfast show.

“I have lived such an up and down, amazing, not so amazing life,’’ Fevola said.

“I have a great head for it (radio). I really do love it, it is sort of my calling, I suppose. I am not very good at anything else. I am lucky that radio had come into (my life).’’

He said he owed his new and unexpected radio career to the jungle.

“Going in there and literally sitting on my butt for 50 days doing nothing changed my whole life, which was amazing,’’ he said.

“As hard as it was I never thought I would get a job out of it. And I was really reluctant to go because I thought everyone would think I was a dickhead.’’

Having announced in November that he and his ex-wife Alex were planning to tie the knot over summer, following their divorce and subsequent engagement, Fevola now says that was just a throwaway line.

“We just said that, `Yeah, maybe over summer’ just to stop it (questions about marriage).’’

He would not comment on a recent New Idea story alleging he had secretly messaged a mystery woman on Snapchat.

Fevola said he was grateful after years of personal and professional turmoil to have ``have really landed on my tippy toes.’’

“Footy obviously was great, loved playing footy and then I obviously had the downs when I did not play footy,’’ he said.

“But I am lucky I went through that. It all happened for a reason.’’

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