Today‘s Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson are riding high on Channel Nine’s longest winning ratings streak over rival Sunrise, but this week they’ve thrown their weight behind a talent outside their own network.
Karl and Lisa have announced they’ll be backing Gold Logie hopeful Waleed Aly at this Sunday’s awards ceremony.
Speaking to Fairfax, the pair said: “Waleed has made a significant contribution to Australian television this year.”(Someone might not want to mention any of this to their Nine alumni, Scott Cam, who is up for the same award.)
Support for the 37-year-old journalist, academic and commentator comes less than a month after the media was whipped into a frenzy over “reverse racism” comments the co-hosts and their colleague, Ben Fordham, made on air.
Joking that Lisa was “too white” to receive a nomination for the top award stirred up furore within many. So much so that one article from The New Daily slammed the pair as “clowns” in a TV breakfast circus.
Watch a snippet of the controversial segment below (post continues after video).