Grant and Chezzi Denyer open up about their ‘scandalous’ relationship

Grant and Chezzi Denyer have opened up about their controversial romance, admitting it began as a workplace affair while they were both at Sunrise.

Grant Denyer has opened up about the “scandalous” origins of his relationship with wife Chezzi, admitting it began as a workplace affair.

The couple, who tied the knot in 2010, first got together while Chezzi was Grant’s producer on Sunrise. At the time, she was married to another man while the weatherman was in a relationship with another woman.

Their mutual attraction wasn’t an instant one: when they first met, they “hated each other”, according to Grant.

In the latest episode of the Separate Bathrooms podcast with Cam and Ali Daddo, he admitted that they had initially had “creative differences”, and that Chezzi had found him “annoying”.

“I was a young, ambitious pain in the arse who thought he knew everything. And she was a creative who thought you know that that she could push me around. And I didn’t like that. So we clashed a lot,” Grant told the hosts, adding “but that all changed”.

He explained that their professional relationship shifted during the Melbourne Cup one year, when they “brushed hands accidentally”, and he felt a “tingling sensation” that was “straight out of a Hollywood movie”.

“I was like, I had this instant light bulb reaction – ‘oh my god, I can’t live without this woman’,” Grant said.

The couple at the 2018 Logies. Picture: AAP Image/Regi Varghese

However, given that neither was single at the time, the TV star admitted it was a “bit scandalous”.

“Yeah, love comes in different shapes and forms and times … sometimes convenient, sometimes not.”

Chezzi added that it “shocked” both of them when they realised they had feelings for each other.

“We did not like each other. I kept saying, ‘please, can I produce anybody else at Sunrise other than Grant because he’s always racing cars. He’s off here. You know, doing this weekend. He turns up really tired. Maybe a bit hungover …’ It was doing my head in. So we really struggled,” she said of their early days working together.

The couple - who co-host weekly podcast It’s All True - now share three daughters: Sailor, 10, Scout, six and Sunday, one.

Their third daughter, Sunday, was born in February 2021.

During the podcast interview, Grant also opened up about feeling like a “fake” during his lengthy career across TV, radio and motor racing.

The Gold Logie winner admitted that his “self talk is pretty savage” and that he’s often felt he’s “not good enough or worthy” of his success.

“I’ve always felt that as I’m sort of climbing the ranks, I’m only ever pretending to be bits of other people, you know … sort of fake, it ‘til you make it,” Grant told the hosts.

“As a young professional, you’re trying to upsell yourself … I guess I behaved that way for so long, where I’d take a bit of, you know, ‘maybe I want to be a bit like the Daddos, a little bit like Daryl Somers, a little bit like Rove McManus’.

“I’ve only ever been the accumulation of other people that I’ve seen, and so I feel when I watch myself on television, I don’t ever feel like that’s really me.... So I feel like a fake.”

He went on to explain that winning the Gold Logie in 2018 felt like a “relief”.

“There was a lot of relief, ‘it’s OK, you’ve made it, you can relax now’ – you know, I felt like I’ve been running on the treadmill at 1000 miles an hour for so long. So I’m in a different phase as a result of that, I think.”