Oh brother! Peter Stefanovic reveals why he won’t be watching Karl on the Today show
Peter Stefanovic says he won’t be waking up with the Today show after his brother Karl announced his return to the breakfast television program.
Almost a year after he was brutally axed from the show while celebrating his wedding in Mexico, Channel Nine has reinstated the Gold Logie winner as co host alongside Allison Langdon from next year.
Despite Karl staying with Nine for other projects, his younger brother Peter, who was co-hosting Weekend Today at the time, said goodbye to the network shortly afterwards.
Peter says he doesn’t resent Nine for the decision, and now hosts his own breakfast show, First Edition on Sky News, alongside Laura Jayes.
Which is why he won’t be able to support his older brother once he returns to the Today show as the two siblings go head to head in breakfast television in an Aussie first.
According to Peter, bringing the ratings back up for the Today show won’t be an easy task, as currently the numbers are at an all-time low.
“Anyone who knows us knows that we revel in sibling rivalry. This will be no exception … we have wrestled eyeballs of Today this year, and Karl is going to have to work his backside off to get them back. I’ll be doing my best to stop that,” Peter told The Australian.
He said that the two find great satisfaction in competing with one another and joked that if Karl needs advice to readjusting to 4 am starts, then he can give him a call.
But despite the quip, Peter added that they don’t take themselves too seriously and used a sporting analogy to describe his brother’s chances of a successful return to breakfast television.
“Let me put it this way. In 2001 the great Alfie Langer led Queensland to victory in the third and deciding Origin game,” he said.
“It was a truly epic sporting comeback. Karl will need to invoke the legend of Langer, and I know he’ll give it a great crack.”