Karl Stefanovic has reunited with Lisa Wilkinson for the first time since their very public split from the Channel Nine show.
The former Today co-hosts were seen friendly as they posed for photos together at a Sunday event to announce the 2022 Logie nominees on the Gold Coast.
Karl, 47, and Lisa, 62, looked amicable when they were spotted together in public for the first time since the release of an anthology about their time on Channel Nine.
Agreeable: Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson buried their feud as they reunited for the first time on Sunday to attend the Logie Award nominations on the Gold Coast
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Lisa said: “It was lovely to see Karl and a reminder for both of us of the many great years we shared together.”
Recent excerpts released to promote the book detail Wilkinson’s feud with Stefanovic in the weeks leading up to her departure from Channel Nine.
Other excerpts from Wilkinson’s book recount the controversy surrounding his 2016 divorce from wife Cassandra Thorburn and subsequent relationship and marriage to shoe designer Jasmine Yarbrough.
Everything is OK? Karl, 47, and Lisa, 62, looked amicable when they were spotted together in public for the first time since the release of an anthology about their time on Channel Nine
Wilkinson released an excerpt describing her reaction upon learning that her former colleague had found new love with his wife just months after his widely publicized marital failure.
She said Stefanovic then showed her a picture of the LA model and designer, who is nine years her junior, before confirming he was “madly in love” with her.
Wilkinson said she found him “as happy and relaxed as I’ve ever seen him” during the meeting, before uttering the words, “I met someone.”
“It was lovely to see Karl and a reminder for both of us of the many great years we had together,” Wilkinson told The Daily Telegraph
“Well that certainly took a turn,” Wilkinson wrote, adding, “And explained a lot. The smile he had on his face got even bigger.”
Wilkinson also details in her book how Stefanovic’s relationship with a younger woman affected his career, citing an interview with an entertainment reporter with Peter Ford on the show The Kyle and Jackie O.
“His personal evaluations — and Nine has done research to back this up — are spot on,” Ford said. “Women are angry with him.”
Unusual request: Mitchell also blasted Wilkinson’s minder on air in November, claiming that “no decent journalist” would give an interview with such limitations on what could be asked
Karl on the brain: Despite her hesitance to discuss Stefanovic in person, Wilkinson had no qualms slamming him into the pages of her tell-all autobiography
Host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson echoed those thoughts, adding, “You think he only left her for a young 20-year-old and he’s romping around, kissing her, cuddling her for all to see.”
Wilkinson said the research Ford talked about related to the fact that the entire Today team – including Stefanovic – had been asked to attend a presentation about the TV star’s declining ratings given his new relationship.
“We each got a full dossier with all the details, and Jackie was right. It was a very uncomfortable read,” Wilkinson wrote.
Tell-all: Recent excerpts released to promote the book detail Wilkinson’s feud with Stefanovic in the weeks leading up to her departure from Channel Nine
Getting the news: In her book, Wilkinson also discusses the moment when Cassandra Thorburn (left) – a former Today Show producer – texted her informing her that Stefanovic had moved out of the family home in 2016
In her memoir, Wilkinson also revealed the moment Cassandra — a former Today Show producer — texted her to inform that Stefanovic had moved out of the family home in 2016.
“They had just bought a waterfront property a month or two before and he had just signed a huge deal with the network. I assumed everything was great,” Wilkinson wrote.
She said she “gasped” when she received the text message from Cassandra telling her the couple had split after 21 years of marriage.
Romance: Stefanovic (left) met Yarbrough (right) aboard a lavish cruise in December, five months after he and Cassandra Thorburn – who share Jackson, 20, Ava, 15, and River, 13, – split in 2016. They divorced a year later
Family: Stefanovic is now married to Jasmine, whom he married in Mexico in December 2018. Pictured: The couple on their wedding day