The Morning Show hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies address a SHOCKING rumour about them live on air – insisting it’s ‘100 per cent not true’
Channel Seven has denied reports The Morning Show is facing the axe due to ‘a decline in advertising revenue’.
And on Monday, the program’s hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies broke their silence on the false rumours.
Reacting to this week’s Woman’s Day article during their show’s entertainment segment, Kylie said: ‘It’s 100 per cent not true!’
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The Morning Show hosts Larry Emdur (left) and Kylie Gillies (right) laughed off claims their popular Channel Seven show was in the process of being axed on Monday
The article claimed that Seven was considering taking the show off the air as a cost-cutting measure amid the COVID-19 recession.
A source claimed the plan was to cut The Morning Show and extend the network’s top-rating breakfast program, Sunrise, for an hour to fill its gap.
Woman’s Day also alleged there had been ‘closed-door meetings’ at Seven over the proposed axing.
Discussing the article on The Morning Show, Larry said: ‘We’ve won every national ratings block since we started 13 years ago, are they going to axe that?’
Kylie also insinuated the made-up nonsense was a joke: ‘You’ve got to laugh, right?’
‘You’ve got to laugh, right?’ Both Kylie (middle) and Larry (left) joked about the false report, and assured viewers they weren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Pictured with Peter Ford
Fake news: Larry boasted that the program had won every national ratings block for its 13-year history, and questioned why a popular program would be axed. Pictured: hosts Larry and Kylie
Seven’s Director of News and Public Affairs, Craig McPherson also told Daily Mail Australia the claims were ‘complete rubbish’ on Monday.
‘The Morning Show has been a dominant market leader for well over a decade. Advertisers are justifiably queuing up to get on the program,’ he said.
After Seven’s denial, Woman’s Day removed the offending article from its website.
Claims: Woman’s Day alleged there had been ‘closed-door meetings’ at Seven over the proposed axing but no decision had been made. Craig McPherson, Seven’s Director of News and Public Affairs, insisted however that no such discussions had taken place
The program has been hosted by Larry and Kylie since 2007 and airs at the same time as Channel Nine’s Today Extra and Studio 10 on Network Ten.
Kylie told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2017 that the secret to her and Larry’s success was ‘respect and genuine love for what we do’.
In 2019, Larry said that he and Kylie don’t always see eye to eye on everything, and the program is better off for it.
‘You don’t want us to be vanilla. The last thing you want is two people to sit there and just agree with each other and laugh at each other’s silly jokes. We call each other out and I think that’s part of the magic of the show,’ he said.
Thirteen years strong: Kylie told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2017 that the secret to her and Larry’s success was ‘respect and genuine love for what we do’