{"id":37036,"date":"2025-08-01T08:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37036\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:41:14","slug":"mummys-boy-zac-bailey-gets-stitched-up-by-his-today-co-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37036\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mummy&#8217;s boy&#8217; Zac Bailey gets stitched up by his Today co-hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zac Bailey has been doing a stellar job filling in as the Today sports host while Danica is on leave.<\/p>\n<p>The 9News Sydney journalist is used to covering the latest sports stories for the 6pm bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>But even with a 3.30am wake-up for his hosting duties alongside Karl, Sarah and Jayne this week, Zac nailed the early starts, all while maintaining his trademark big smile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/today\/sign-up-for-the-today-show-newsletter\/57b05181-ffe6-4143-9ddf-54d56d42db7f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7ce16070-63aa-42bd-a3ee-448b73a4dc54.png\"   alt=\"TODAY 2023\"\/>Subscribe to the Today newsletter here. (Nine)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/882be68f-3136-445a-a0ca-f151e970da14.jpeg\"   alt=\"Zac Bailey mum Vicki Today Show drop off Friday, August 1, 2025\"\/>Zac&#8217;s mum Vicki drops him to work for the 5.30 start. (Today)<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/today\/ally-langdon-promise-gold-logie-nominee-excited-for-2025-awards\/3a39c419-1160-44f5-8ac5-f19eda93b6f6\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Ally Langdon&#039;s cheeky promise if she wins Logies gold\">Ally Langdon&#8217;s cheeky promise if she wins Logies gold<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now, Today viewers know why.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out Zac is a big old mumma&#8217;s boy, with Vicki Bailey happy to help her son prepare for his early starts.<\/p>\n<p>From packing Zac&#8217;s Bluey lunchbox, to ironing his shirts and even driving him to work in time for hair and make-up, there&#8217;s nothing Ms Bailey won&#8217;t do for her boy.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff&#8221;Zac, all week you&#8217;ve been talking about how much of a mummy&#8217;s boy you are, but we didn&#8217;t really believe him, though,&#8221; Karl said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I decided to sneak down to the carpark and grab some vision of you arriving at work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And sure enough there was Vicki giving Zac a kiss on the forehead and wishing him a good day in the office.<\/p>\n<p>So Karl decided to invite her upstairs into the studio to meet the rest of the team.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/abb0e941-6c63-4bc4-9bfc-1626d132baf7.jpeg\"   alt=\"Zac Bailey mum Vicki Today Show drop off Friday, August 1, 2025\"\/>Zac&#8217;s dad even made a special appearance during the stitch up. (Today)<\/p>\n<p>Vicki played along, although she did still make time to finish ironing Zac&#8217;s workshirts and duck out to the shops to grab the ingredients to make his favourite lamb cutlets for tea tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She only lives five minutes down the road from me, it&#8217;d be silly not to bring my laundry around,&#8221; Zac said.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mum, you get cooking with the lamb cutlets, I&#8217;ll read some sport and then we&#8217;ll all give them a try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See more of Zac&#8217;s lovely mum Vicki in the video above\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zac Bailey has been doing a stellar job filling in as the Today sports host while Danica is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-37036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}