Libbi Gorr makes a shocking career move two years after quitting breakfast radio — as she reflects on being “deposed before it was even invented” after the infamous Chopper interview.
Veteran radio presenter Lisbeth “Libbi” Gorr returns to the airwaves two years after leaving ABC Radio Melbourne for personal reasons.
The 58-year-old comedian recently announced that she will be hosting a weekday breakfast show on soon-to-launch digital station Disrupt Radio.
She told Stellar Magazine this week that listeners can expect an exciting talk show where she will be interviewing world famous stars.
“Thirty years after we met, Bob Geldof is with me for the first week. “I’m going to spend a week with Bob and see what happens,” she said.
Libbi left ABC Radio in late 2021 after ten years in the role after tragically losing her older brother Jon in an accident and having to spend time with her family.
Veteran radio presenter Lisbeth “Libbi” Gorr, 58, (pictured) is returning to radio waves two years after leaving ABC Radio Melbourne for personal reasons
She revealed that with the help of her creative agency, Thinkerbell, she managed to rebrand her image before returning to the air.
Luckily, they were able to help Libbi find the perfect gig on Disrupt, which starts Monday.
She said listeners could expect plenty of informative interviews – but admitted that after an infamous interview with a drunk Mark “Chopper” Read in 1998 on her ABC talk show McFeast Live, she’s tired of her raunchy ’90s -year-old ego Ellie McFeast to play.
The comedian recently announced that she will be hosting a weekday breakfast show on soon-to-be-launched digital station Disrupt Radio
The infamous interview with the career criminal-turned-TV star shocked audiences after a visibly drunk chopper showed up and bragged about how many people he’d killed.
He then stared at Gorr’s breasts and attempted to fondle them in front of the studio audience.
Inundated with complaints about the shocking part, ABC later apologized to audiences and admitted the screening was “a miscalculation”.
She said listeners could expect plenty of informative interviews – but admitted she’s done with it after an infamous interview on her ABC talk show McFeast Live with a drunk Mark “Chopper” Read (pictured) in 1998 playing her raunchy ’90s alter ego, Ellie McFeast
The infamous interview with the career criminal-turned-TV star shocked audiences after a visibly drunk Chopper Read showed up and bragged about how many people he’d killed
As a result, Gorr was sadly blamed by many, and people wondered why she would ever have thought booking an infamous career criminal for a talk show was a good idea.
The ABC has been working hard to ensure footage of the event does not reappear on social media, and it was recently removed from YouTube for “copyright concerns”.
“I was canceled before it was invented.” I probably lost about four years. “I didn’t know I was in a dark place because nobody was talking about dark places back then, but it definitely blew my mind.”
Luckily, Libbi worked hard to restore her image and established herself as a hard-hitting journalist in the years that followed.
Luckily, Libbi worked hard to restore her image and established herself as a hard-hitting journalist in the years that followed