Triple M are set to launch a new look breakfast team in 2025.
And one of the stars of the new line up, Titus O’Reily has revealed that co-host Mick Molloy knew about the shake-up months ago – and kept it a secret.
‘Mick would not say anything,’ O’Reily said in a new interview with the Swanny and Friends podcast.
‘He is actually weirdly professional about some things. For someone who is known as being not professional, if he needs a secret he won’t say it, especially if it is a commercial secret.’
Triple M announced in November that Molloy, who had been hosting Sydney breakfast at the station alongside Mark ‘MG’ Geyer forthe last two years, would be moving to Melbourne in 2025.
Elsewhere in the chat O’Riley, whose real name is Alex Twomey, said that it was Molloy who asked him to take up the new gig at Triple M.
Triple M are set to launch a new look breakfast team in 2025. And one of the stars of the new line up, Titus O’Reily has revealed that co-host Mick Molloy (pictured) knew about the shake-up months ago – and kept it a secret
O’Reily (pictured) said in a new interview with the Swanny and Friends podcast this week that he quizzed Molloy about a move – but the radio star refused to divulge any details
‘[He] calls me in and we have this forty minute meeting … and then he goes ”I have got something to tell you, I am coming back to Melbourne to do breakfast radio … so you will be involved, yeah?’’.’
‘And I go ”Yeah”.’
O’Riley will join the new Triple M breakfast team consisting of Molloy, Nick Riewoldt and Rosie Walton.
The new show has been branded Mick in the Morning with Roo, Titus & Rosie and is set to debut on Monday, January 20, as this year’s co-hosts Wil Anderson and Dale ‘Daisy’ Thomas depart.
It comes after Daily Mail Australia reported last month in an exclusive that NRL star turned television presenter Beau Ryan will be the new host of Triple M’s breakfast program in Sydney in the new year.
Ryan will replace fellow former rugby league player Mark Geyer, who was sacked in November.
A familiar face to TV viewers from his stint on Nine’s now defunct Footy Show Ryan has recently hosted gigs on Ten’s Amazing Race, Gladiators Australia and Top Gear.
But the 39-year-old has limited experience in radio, lasting just three months co-hosting a breakfast show on the short-lived Macquarie Sports Radio network in 2018.
Elsewhere in the chat O’Riley, whose real name is Alex Twomey, said that it was Molloy who asked him to take up the new gig at Triple M. O’Riley will join the new team consisting of Molloy, Nick Riewoldt and Rosie Walton
It comes after Daily Mail Australia reported last month in an exclusive that NRL star turned television presenter Beau Ryan will be the new host of Triple M’s breakfast program in Sydney in the new year. Ryan will replace fellow former rugby league player Mark Geyer – pictured – who was sacked in November
He has also filled-in at breakfast on KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O Show when Kyle Sandilands has been unavailable.
Ryan has been tapped for a fulltime role on radio’s most important timeslot during a turbulent period at Triple M’s Sydney studios, which has included the sudden departure of Geyer.
Geyer was told on November 20 he would not be returning next year to Mick & MG in the Morning, which ran from 6am to 9am. He finished up immediately.
The 56-year-old, who had been with Triple M since 2009, hosted the show alongside Melbourne comedian Mick Molloy, with Cat Lynch and Natarsha Belling as their offsiders.
Radio insiders confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that Ryan would be billed as the star of the new Sydney program, which would have a female co-host.
Ryan, who played for the West Tigers and Cronulla, will inherit an audience which Geyer and Molloy had increased 0.5 points to a 5.1 per cent share of listeners in the latest ratings survey.
Melbourne presenters appear to be the biggest winners as Triple M continues to overhaul its programming around Australia.
The Marty Sheargold Show, which is currently heard nationally from 3 to 4pm, will be broadcast for an additional two hours in NSW and Queensland next year.
Those extended hours have meant the axing of Sydney and Brisbane’s Rush Hour programs which aired from 4pm to 6pm.
Sheargold’s show will not run in Melbourne in the drive slot it has been allocated in Sydney and Brisbane.
In NSW, The Rush Hour was hosted by Gus Worland, who revealed in October he was quitting radio, with Jude Bolton and Aaron Woods.
In Queensland, The Rush Hour was presented by Leisel Jones, Liam Flanagan and Ben Dobbin.
Melbourne’s The Rush Hour with James Brayshaw and Billy Brownless will from next year be broadcast from 4 to 6pm in the Victorian capital as well as Adelaide, Hobart and Perth.
Adelaide’s The Rush Hour with Bernie Vince, Greg Blewett and Andrew Jarman, and Perth’s The Rush Hour with Andrew Embley and Katie Lamb will be cut from their respective schedules.
Dead Set Legends, the Saturday 10am to 12pm sports program hosted in Sydney by Richard Freedman, Candice Warner and Brendan Annakin, last aired in October and its future is yet to be confirmed.
Annakin, who was also Triple M’s morning presenter in Sydney and had worked at the network for 12 years, was made redundant a fortnight ago.
The network’s Sydney content director Rex Morris’ position has also recently been made redundant.
Melbourne-based Dave Cameron, the chief content officer for Southern Cross Austereo – Triple M’s parent company – was spotted in the Sydney offices at the time of Geyer’s sacking.
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