Nova 100’s Jase and Lauren on the Tipping Point with Todd Woodbridge

This morning on Nova 100’s Jase & Lauren, the team visited the set of the Tipping Point to play and chat with host Todd Woodbridge.  

The game show has become quite a phenomenon and Lauren Phillips (pictured above) is pretty competitive about it. Former tennis player Woodbridge won the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter at the Logies last weekend. But that wasn’t the moment that most will remember from 2025.

Also a former player, Jelena Dokic paid tribute to Woodbridge’s profound influence on her career post tennis that night saying:

“This makes me cry so much because I sat down with you at the table 11 years ago when I retired and you said to me that I can be a commentator and bring my story to life. I looked at you and I said to you, ‘I don’t know who you are talking about but you are not talking about me’.

“I was a person who couldn’t string two sentences together and had no social skills, but you believed in me. I hope everyone finds a Todd like I did.”

Todd reflected on the night with Jase and Lauren, calling it “one of the most special evenings I’ve ever been a part of.”

Lauren: I want to go back to the Logies on Sunday night, because I got very emotional.. when Jelena Dokic won her Logie and she made this incredible speech about how if every woman and wife and daughter and sister had a Todd in her life, the world would be a better place. I mean, Paul, my fiance and I were on the couch sobbing watching that. How did you feel in that moment?

Todd: Yeah, I was surprised by her doing that. I know she sometimes says that in a keynote a little bit, but I’ve never seen the keynote and been there, but her whole speech was flawless… because the messaging was so strong, and to be a big part of that messaging and understanding of getting her on track, really, I felt incredibly proud to have watched someone be able to get up and deliver,in front of that audience at a Logies when you got all these TV people, that’s nerve wracking. But she just killed it.

Lauren: I remember, in those early days of Channel Nine taking over the Australian Open and I worked on those first seasons… you were so nurturing to her, but not just to her, to all of us. You have this innate ability to make people feel so comfortable and so welcome, and you’ve just got this beautiful aura about you. So I’m so glad that that moment was shared so publicly, because a lot of us feel that way.

Todd: Thank you. I feel like, for me personally, I just I enjoy the company of it all, and I want everyone to do well. I want to do the very best job. I’m quite competitive, but I can’t do it if the other people don’t do it well. So you’re together in that… And you guys have it in your team, don’t you, obviously. But that whole thing with what Jelena was able to deliver, and then to have my moment follow that, more or less, that was bizarrely, I just couldn’t believe the whole timing of it all, because none of that’s planned. We didn’t know. She didn’t know she’s going to win. I had very little faith. And so it just became one of the most special evenings I’ve ever been a part of.

Then the games began….

Todd: You’ve been on the set now and now you understand when the game’s rolling

Lauren: It’s way more nerve racking than I thought!

Jase Hawkins: I cannot stress enough how much of a crazy fan she is!

Todd: Yeah, I didn’t know that!… we used to work together at the tennis

Jase: … She now sits at home and argues with her fiance about which drop zone and the questions.

Lauren: It took me about four years of watching the Tipping Point to understand how it actually worked, but now I know what I’m doing!

Main image left to right – Lauren Phillips, Todd Woodbridge, Jase Hawkins and producer Gen Z. Images supplied.