Jilted Ready Steady Cook host Peter Everett has unleashed on Channel 10 producers for failing to invite him back for the 2024 reboot.
Everett, who hosted the show for five years before being sacked over the phone in 2011, told New Idea magazine on Monday that he was devastated after learning that chef Miguel Maestre was hosting the program.
‘I was like a three-year-old for a couple of days, who constantly asks, ‘Why, why, why?’ They didn’t approach me for some reason. Who knows why? It’s a shame,’ he lamented, admitting that he didn’t sleep well after hearing the news.
The television host insisted ‘there was always talk’ about him hosting the reboot with another person, but admitted he ‘never pushed’ the issue with producers.
Everett also suggested that diehard fans of the franchise are even boycotting the new series because of his absence.
Jilted Ready Steady Cook host Peter Everett (pictured) has unleashed on Channel 10 producers for failing to invite him back for the 2024 reboot
‘I’ve had a few messages from fans saying we’re not going to watch this show if you’re not doing it. I like the fact that I’m remembered fondly,’ he said.
Everett joined Ready Steady Cook in 2006, replacing Nick Stratford as host.
However he was dumped from the show in 2011, saying at the time he was ‘disappointed’ to have been fired over the phone just before heading overseas on holiday.
Everett, who hosted the show for five years before being sacked over the phone in 2011, told New Idea magazine on Monday that he was devastated after learning that chef Miguel Maestre was hosting the program
‘I was like a three-year-old for a couple of days, who constantly asks, ‘Why, why, why?’ They didn’t approach me for some reason. Who knows why? It’s a shame,’ he lamented, admitting that he didn’t sleep well after hearing the news. (Maestro and Everett are pictured on the set of The Living Room in April 2021)
Rory Callaghan, the CEO of Southern Star Productions (now Endemol Australia), which produced the series, later defended the decision to sack Everett.
Callaghan told TV Tonight: ‘It was me who called him and said, ‘Don’t bother coming back from Bali.’ It was a hard production with him so it was time to move on.’
Speaking to news.com.au in 2019, Everett added: ‘[Callaghan] was saying that I think I’m greater than the show. I think it meant I thought I was so indispensable and that they couldn’t do the show without me.’
Everett joined Ready Steady Cook in 2006, replacing Nick Stratford as host
He said he’d told the executive that if his ‘ego’ was as big as they said it was, he would have ‘asked for a pay rise’, calling the excuse to sack him ‘absolute rubbish’.
At the time of Everett’s dismissal, Callaghan took personal responsibility for making the call to replace him with a new host.
‘I think we’d reached a point where we all needed to move on,’ he added.
He was dumped from Ready Steady Cook in 2011, saying at the time he was ‘disappointed’ to have been fired over the phone just before heading overseas on holiday
Everett admitted he was ‘a bit bewildered’ by his firing because ratings were good.
‘If something is working, don’t change it, just leave it. It was really hard, really rough. Whatever reason it happened,’ he said.
Everett was replaced by comedian Colin Lane, but admitted he could not bring himself to watch the show after being sacked.
Everett was replaced by comedian Colin Lane, but admitted he could not bring himself to watch the show after being sacked
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