Veteran presenter Jessica Rowe reveals outrageous thing a TV boss told her to stop doing READ MORE: Shock as beloved star is finally nominated for a Gold Logie By Jimmy Briggs For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:35 BST, 22 August 2024 | Updated: 01:59 BST, 22 August 2024 e-mail View comments Jessica Rowe shocked radio stars Kyle Sandilands and Jackie 'O' Henderson on Thursday by revealing the outrageous request a former TV boss made of her. The 54-year-old veteran journalist was discussing her career on KIIS FM's The Kyle and Jackie O Show when she made the bombshell reveal that a former employer took issue with her distinctive laugh. 'The snort is part of me! Do you know with the laughter, years ago when I was on TV a boss told me to quit that snorting laughter,' Jessica began.
'For a time I listened to him. That was my real mistake because it diminished who I was.' Jessica added she was now much more confident and would never again change who she was for an employer.
'So now I embrace the snort and laughter and wherever I go I laugh. When people go low I go high!' Host Jackie O Henderson responded: 'Good on you, we love you for it.' The interview comes after Jessica recently 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.
Jessica Rowe (pictured) shocked radio stars Kyle Sandilands and Jackie 'O' Henderson on Thursday by revealing the outrageous request a former TV boss made of her Read More Jessica Rowe looks like a toilet roll doll as she attends Romance Was Born show at Australian Fashion Week She 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 that. It was all over the newspapers that I was going to be leaving the Today show,' she recalled on the Jess Rowe Big Talk Show earlier this month.
' 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.
The 54-year-old was discussing her career on KIIS FM's The Kyle and Jackie O Show when she made the bombshell reveal that a former employer took issue with her distinctive laugh. Pictured Jackie O Henderson In 2006, Jessica was thrust into the spotlight when she moved from Channel 10 to the Nine Network to replace Tracy Grimshaw as co-host of the Today show. But scandal struck when Nine's chief executive Eddie McGuire allegedly asked when he could 'bone' Jessica, with reports suggesting at the time he meant to 'sack' her.
He reportedly made the comments during a conversation with his then deputy Jeffrey Browne and Nine's head of news and current affairs, Mark Llewellyn. Llewellyn then allegedly told McGuire the network might risk also losing Jessica's husband, Nine News reporter Peter Overton, if they sacked her. McGuire is said to have replied, 'Maybe we have to take that risk,' before Browne added: 'She's a laughing stock and if we keep her on air we'll be the laughing stock.
' McGuire has since denied using the term 'bone' in the conversation, which was laid out by Llewellyn's sworn affidavit (made public after he left the network for rival station Seven). 'The snort is part of me! Do you know with the laughter, years ago when I was on TV a boss told me to quit that snorting laughter,' Jessica said Jessica left the Today show in 2007 following her return from maternity leave. At the time, she cited payment issues as the reason for her departure.
She then joined Channel Seven as a presenter for Seven News in Sydney, before taking part in Dancing with the Stars. Jessica moved to Weekend Sunrise in late 2010 and stayed there for three years. In 2013, she signed with Network Ten and hosted morning show Studio 10 alongside Ita Buttrose, Joe Hildebrand, Sarah Harris and Denise Drysdale.
In March 2018, she announced she was resigning from the program to spend more time with her family. Jess and her husband, Channel Nine news anchor Peter Overton, have been married since 2004 and share daughters Allegra, 17, and Giselle, 15. Jessica added she was now much more confident and would never again change who she was for an employer Kyle Sandilands Jackie 'O' Henderson Radio Share or comment on this article: Veteran presenter Jessica Rowe reveals outrageous thing a TV boss told her to stop doing e-mail Add comment.
