BREAKING: Karl Stefanovic reportedly sacked by Nine

The Australian (subscription required) has reported that Karl Stefanovic has been let go early from the rest of his contract with Nine, after an episode of his independent Karl Stefanovic Show podcast was removed from his platform and then reuploaded on Pauline Hanson‘s YouTube channel.

When sharing the episode with controversial UK activist Tommy Robinson, Pauline’s Please Explain channel said:

“It looks like they’re trying to sack my good friend Karl Stefanovic for this video with Tommy Robinson!

Deb Knight was a huge flop for Channel 9 and while she was busy grilling me over One Nation’s polling Channel 9’s ratings were in the toilet.

In 2019 on live TV with her, I called on Channel 9 to bring back Karl.

Now with 6 months to go on his contract the weak management of Channel 9 want to sack Karl over this interview.

As it turns out, the sacking part was right.

This makes the recent decision of a collaboration of sorts between Karl, Eddie McGuire, Nine and ARN one to watch ahead of this Friday’s episode of The Long Weekend, airing at midday AEST on the GOLD Network, iHeart, across social platforms, as well as on 9Now and Stan.

What will become of that if the TV involvement (and presumably some of the financial assistance) is gone?

Additionally, Karl is currently on leave from Nine and his Today Show responsibilities, with these decisions made at Nine done without his physical presence.

That would surely extend to the Friday show, for if Karl is doing it live from London, he would need to be up at 3am. But, he would be used to that from his time with Today, not necessary with some jetlag too.

Nine have not yet provided a comment on this decision with The Australian suggesting they will be formalised once Karl returns home.