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Goggle Box is KIIS host Jase Hawkins’ guilty streaming pleasure
By Zoe Samios
Welcome to Quick Q – Monday Media’s weekly Q&A series dedicated to finding out more about the personalities that matter most in the Australian media landscape.
Every week The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age ask key figures across corporate media, business, sport, federal politics, radio, television and culture to answer questions about their lives, careers, hobbies and news habits.
This week’s conversation is with Jase Hawkins – one half of KIIS 101.1’s breakfast show, Jase & Lauren.
Jase Hawkins is one half of KIIS 101.1’s breakfast show, Jase & Lauren.Credit:
How did you get your big break?
I was working at a radio station. Kyle Sandilands was hosting the show and cracked it at me and asked, ‘What are we paying you for?’ I said, ‘You don’t pay me’. He got me my first paying radio job.
What are your daily news media habits?
Doing the radio show each morning, podcasts on my walk and most afternoons, Teletubbies (the one-year-old isn’t a fan, but I love it).
Which living person do you most admire?
My mum. She brought up four kids and worked around the clock to give us an amazing childhood.
Your guilty streaming pleasure?
Goggle Box. Lee and Keith on Goggle Box remind me of what I think my wife and I will be like in ten years.
Which phrase do you overuse?
“Sorry, I can’t come…the kids are sick.”
What did you want to do when you grew up?
I always wanted to work in radio. I used to set up radio studios at home and commentate the kids bike races down the street.
What was your first job?
Working in electronics selling TVs to rich people at David Jones.
Facebook or Instagram?
Instagram.
Recommend a podcast…
Smartless. They are amazing at interviews.
What’s one vice you wish you could give up?
ICE CREAM. I eat a tub a night.
The song that’s always on high rotation?
The Killers - Mr Brightside.
What are you reading?
I am not a reader. Only audio books. The last one I listened to was Barefoot Investor. I’ve joined the cult.
Favourite movie of the past decade?
The Dark Knight. I am a big Batman fan.
Top of your sporting bucket list?
AFL Grand Final.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Live, not exist.
What are the three things you couldn’t live without?
Family, friends, Hampton Bowls Club.
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