Georgia Love Covers Erin Patterson Verdict in Jetta After Losing Channel Seven Job

Georgia Love has been avidly covering the Erin Patterson trial over the past week – all from her car. 

Patterson was on Monday found guilty of murdering her three in-laws with death cap mushrooms in a beef Wellington that she served them for lunch at her home. 

Former Bachelorette star Love has shared updates from outside the Supreme Court of Victoria, where she has been stationed in her Volkswagen Jetta with a trunk full of microphones and recording gear in her assignment for radio station Gold FM. 

In video shared to Instagram, Love panned past her open laptop computer, which sat on her centre console. 

She also recorded a segment while seated behind the wheel of her parked car, captioning one image: ‘Who needs a professional recording studio?’ 

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Georgia Love (pictured) has been avidly covering the Erin Patterson trial over the past week – all from her car

Former Bachelorette star Love has shared updates from outside the Supreme Court of Victoria, where she has been stationed in her Volkswagen Jetta with a trunk full of microphones and recording gear in her assignment for radio station Gold FM

‘A day in the life of a radio reporter covering the mushroom murder trial,’ Love captioned her post. 

When not in her car, Love was seated on an outdoor bench, furiously working on her laptop and chatting with other reporters.  

The verdict ends one of the nation’s most intriguing homicide cases.

Patterson sat defiantly throughout her 10-week trial, glaring at the media, members of the public and the family of the people she murdered with callous disregard.

The mother-of-two had pleaded not guilty to the murders of Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson.

They died after consuming death caps in the beef Wellingtons during lunch at Patterson’s Leongatha home in southeast Victoria on July 29, 2023.

Only Pastor Ian Wilkinson survived her plot – a blunder Patterson would live to regret, and will now serve time for after also being found guilty of attempting to murder him.

Asked to deliver a verdict, the jury foreperson – one of only five women to sit on the original 15-person panel – simply stated, ‘guilty’.

The verdict produced an audible gasp from those within the packed courtroom, which included members of the Patterson clan.

When not in her car, Love was seated on an outdoor bench, furiously working on her laptop 

She also was seen chatting with other reporters

‘A day in the life of a radio reporter covering the mushroom murder trial,’ Love captioned one social media post

She also recorded a segment while seated behind the wheel of her parked car, captioning one image: ‘Who needs a professional recording studio?’

While clearly excited by her assignment, Love’s less than glamorous gig comes after she was ditched from a television reporting role at Channel Seven after just five months on air

She currently works for the Australian Radio Network as a reporter and newsreader across various stations

While clearly excited by her assignment, Love’s less than glamorous gig comes after she was ditched from a television reporting role at Channel Seven after just five months on air, back in 2021.

The former reality star was moved to a behind-the-scenes role after she received backlash for a ‘racist’ Instagram post.

Prior to the scandal, Love worked as a news reporter and presenter for the network.

At the time, she left Seven to join storytelling agency Enthral as a senior public relations and content manager. 

Love began her career in journalism at WIN News before her profile skyrocketed in 2016 when she was cast on Channel 10’s The Bachelorette.

She went on to become a casual reporter for Ten Eyewitness News in Melbourne, which was later rebranded as 10 News First, but was let go due to budget cuts in early 2021.

The role was what she described as her dream job, before jumping ship to rival network Channel Seven in February 2021.

But Love’s TV career came to a grinding halt after she made headlines for all the wrong reasons. 

Love’s TV career came to a grinding halt after she made headlines for all the wrong reasons

The journalist had sparked backlash for sharing footage of a cat behind the window of an Asian restaurant and writing: ‘Shop attendant or lunch?!’

She deleted the video an hour later and apologised for causing ‘offence’, but at the time denied the post had any racist ‘insinuation’.

Georgia also posted a similar ‘joke’ about pets and Chinese restaurants in 2013.

Following a workplace investigation, Seven alerted staff via email that Georgia had been ‘counselled’ and reassigned to an off-camera role ‘effective immediately’.

Love last year returned to Melbourne radio with a plum role on the Kyle and Jackie O Show on KIIS FM as a newsreader. 

She currently works for the Australian Radio Network as a reporter and newsreader across various stations. 

Georgia rose to fame when she joined Channel 10 as their official Bachelorette for season two in 2016. 

In addition to her journalism career, Love also dabbles as a podcast host and social media influencer.