Jessica Rowe reveals how her humiliating sacking from Channel Nine was leaked on the eve of the Logie Awards: 'I remember bursting into tears'

Jessica Rowe reveals how her humiliating sacking from Channel Nine was leaked on the eve of the Logie Awards: 'I remember bursting into tears' READ MORE: Shock as beloved star is finally nominated for a Gold Logie By A. James For Daily Mail Australia Published: 20:43 EDT, 5 August 2024 | Updated: 20:45 EDT, 5 August 2024 e-mail View comments Jessica Rowe has opened up about her traumatic exit from Channel Nine in 2007 and how news leaked of her sacking on the eve of the Logie Awards . The 54-year-old veteran journalist was not invited to the red carpet that year, and she woke to find a media scrum on her doorstep.

' This was way before Instagram and TikTok and all of that. It was all over the newspapers that I was going to be leaving the Today Show,' she recalled on Monday's episode of the Jess Rowe Big Talk Show . ' And at the time, I was really shocked because it wasn't meant to be released until a few days later.

So I wasn't prepared.' Adding to Jess' woes was that her husband, Channel Nine star Peter Overton, ended up being confronted with questions on the Logie Awards red carpet about his wife's sacking. Elsewhere in the podcast, Jess explained how she attempted to escape media scrutiny the morning after the awards.

At the time Jess and Peter had just welcomed their daughter Allegra. 'I remember that morning I could hear outside our front gate, all of these sort of cameramen and all these sort of footsteps,' she continued. Jessica Rowe has opened up about her traumatic e.