The weekend Breakfast show airs from 7-9am on Saturday and
Sundays. After the big shuffle up on commercial radio going into 2014 this show
too has made some host adjustments. The question begs, have they hit the nail
on the head with this team?
Almost like a monoleith amongst
apes, the power and knowledge that comes with a national broadcast radio show
is huge! So you’d think Southern Cross Austereo and the TODAY network would be
a little more careful who they put on their airwaves.
Jo Stanely the former co-host of
the Melbourne Breakfast team for 10 years alongside radio legend Matt Tilley
has put her relaxed shoes on and joined the Weekend Breakfast team. Jo has
taken over from previous hosts Dave Thornton and Sophie Monk who have both
moved to weekday breakfast time slots. Joining Jo is the very talented Byron
Cook who just spent 3 years anchoring the Fifi and Jules Drive show. The two of
them bring to the show experience, brilliant comedic timing and a fan base to
boot. So what’s the problem? Well, it’s their third co-host that has me
reaching and scrambling to change the channel.
If you at any stage lowered
yourself to watching a small show that goes by the name of Big Brother, you may
remember a chubby looking fellow called Michael Beveridge. With his long shaggy
red locks and moustache, he more resembles an orang-utan than a human being,
which actually would explain a lot.
For someone that is a
self-confessed genius, Beveridge hasn’t been very clever on the airwaves opting
for cheap laughs with borderline offensive jokes. His ‘thing’ is to make up
jingles, the most recent one trying to compare cooking reality shows to the
crisis going on in Ukraine. Or if making fun of a country currently on the
brink of war isn’t up your alley, maybe you’re more interested in making fun of
people who can’t defend themselves, not because they aren’t in the room, but
because they are dead. At one stage Beveridge made up a jingle telling John
Lennon that maybe he should’ve taken more care, possibly wearing protective
head ware at all times suggesting that it was the former Beatles fault that he
was murdered.
The down-right rude and offensive
remarks coming out of the former Big Brother house mates mouth aren’t doing
anyone any favours, especially not his co-hosts Jo and Byron. In fact, it gets
to a very awkward point where you can hear the tension in Jo Stanleys voice as
Beveridge enjoys talking over the radio royalty constantly to have his say.
Even the brilliant anchoring work of Byron Cook can’t reign in the ropes of
this beast and I say, Michael Beveridge, it’s time to put your tools down and
go back to where you came from. Unfortunately for the people of Adelaide, that
happens to be on his own show hosting the weekday Breakfast time slot.
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