Bridget Brennan will be the new co-host of News Breakfast after Lisa Millar announced she will be stepping down. The announcement was made on Thursday morning. Brennan, who has been with the ABC since 2010, will take over as co-presenter alongside Michael Rowland.
She said she was “honoured and excited” to start the new role. “It’s been a dream come true to work with Michael and Lisa who I’ve been watching for years and to sit alongside you, learn from you both and become deep and wonderful friends has been a privilege.” She started working at ABC as a cadet journalist and has previously worked as the broadcaster’s Indigenous Affairs Editor and National Indigenous Affairs correspondent.
The annoucnement comes weeks after Millar, 55, revealed that she will finish up with the show on August 23. She will remain with the ABC, focusing on her other projects: As narrator of the Logie-nominated series Muster Dogs, as guest presenter of Back Roads and as co-host of the podcast The Newsreader. Millar has been with the ABC since 1993.
Her departure from ABC News Breakfast comes after she unleashed on “disgusting” online trolls who’d criticised her appearance back in March, while also slamming media coverage of the abuse she’d copped..
