7News Reporter-Cameraman Moment Caught on Video

A 7News reporter has shed light on a disgusting moment that was caught on camera during a broadcast. 

Kate Massey, a journalist who was initially based in Perth before making the move to Melbourne, shared a ‘bloopers’ clip to her TikTok account showing her standing outside of Western Australia’s Police Force headquarters.  

In the clip, Kate could be seen getting beauty touch ups before going on-air when her cameraman licked his finger and smoothed back her hair in order to keep it in place. 

Kate was visibly disgusted by the move as she awkwardly looked away and down her nose. 

‘It stayed there!’ the assistant said in response to her facial expressions, which prompted a giggle from the presenter. 

‘You don’t get that service from Luke,’ she said, hinting at another staff member. 

A 7News reporter has shed light on a disgusting moment that was caught on camera during a broadcast

In a hilarious quip, the cameraman joked: ‘It’s my natural hairspray!’ 

Kate captioned the post, which has amassed 135,700 views, ‘Nightmare fuel’. 

Watchers of the clip flooded the comments section, laughing at the journalist’s reaction while dubbing the self-made assistant a ‘dad’.

‘Dads never stop being dads,’ one person wrote with another chiming in: ‘Second dad energy. Best type to work with.’

‘I just KNOW you hated this HAHAHA,’ one person wrote. 

‘Nah this would cause me to go into a MELTDOWN,’ another levelled. 

One person added: ‘The facial reaction BAHAHA.’

‘Aye he got it done in a matter of seconds which is why he’s been hired haha,’ a fan pointed out. 

In the clip, Kate could be seen getting beauty touch ups before going on-air when an assistant licked his finger and smoothed back her hair in order to keep it in place

In October last year, it was reported that the nation’s two biggest commercial TV networks were locked in a vicious ‘star wars’ as they tried to convince their rivals’ best and brightest talent to switch channels.

Sources within Seven’s Sydney headquarters said the network has been forced to fend off interest from Nine in at least half a dozen of its young gun reporters as the two broadcasters battle it out for ratings supremacy.

The attempted talent raid comes as Seven launched its own assault on Nine’s ranks, convincing three of its star AFL panellists on its Footy Classified program to jump ship.

‘We haven’t seen network poaching raids of this scale since the 1990s,’ one senior network insider told Daily Mail Australia.

‘It’s super aggressive at the moment – there are fewer viewers so the battle for eyeballs has never been more intense and the networks are doing absolutely everything they can to try to get the upper hand.’

Seven insiders said Nine had been predominantly targeting its emerging star female reporters in its newsrooms across the entire country as part of an unprecedented blitz.

The revelations come amid reports that Nine was increasingly concerned about the ‘massive experience gap’ between its own big name news presenters and its next generation of stars.

Network insiders said Seven’s award-winning Melbourne political reporter Sharnelle Vella was at the top of Nine’s aggressive ‘hit list’ as it looks to address that issue.

Kate captioned the post, which has amassed 135.7K views, ‘Nightmare fuel’

Vella has impressed news bosses with her hard-hitting stories on Seven’s nightly bulletin along with her co-hosting duties on successful podcast Dead Bodies.

She further proved herself as a top-level talent with her exclusive interview with former CFMEU boss John Setka for the network’s Spotlight program in August.

Sources said Nine had also zeroed in on Vella’s highly regarded colleague, Cassie Zervos, who has become a rapidly rising star in Seven’s Melbourne newsroom since joining from the crime beat on the city’s Herald Sun newspaper six years ago.

Across the country in Perth, sources said Nine had shown keen interest in versatile young reporter Kate Massey, who has been with Seven for almost four years after cutting her teeth as a producer with Nine’s 6PR talkback radio station.

In the nation’s capital, national health editor Jennifer Bechwati, who was named Canberra’s Press Gallery Journalist of the Year in 2020, is also attracting attention.

News early bird Liam Tapper, who reports out of Sydney for Seven’s national Sunrise breakfast program, was also on the hit list, along with fellow Sydney news reporter Natasha Squarey and Europe correspondent Ashlee Mullany.

‘Nine’s got a much bigger news division than Seven because it also has well-staffed programs like A Current Affair and 60 Minutes – so they have a bigger budget and more opportunities to offer young reporters,’ one insider said.

‘They’ve been looking to take advantage of all the newsroom disruptions here to swoop in and steal the cream of our young reporters and hopefully destabilise us a bit at the same time.’

Seven would not comment when asked whether it had been forced to set aside a war chest to retain its best and brightest stars nor how it planned to hold on to all its in-demand reporters.

Nine was equally tight-lipped about its plans, though one insider categorically denied that the network was on a poaching spree.