{"id":775680,"date":"2026-07-03T03:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775680\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T03:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:48:17","slug":"karlos-and-the-ties-that-bind-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775680\/","title":{"rendered":"Karlos and the ties that bind us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#8220;That bond for me with real Australian people is something that I don&#8217;t take for granted,&#8221; says Karl.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Former Today show anchor Karl Stefanovic this week in his podcast said he hopes to stay connected to his mainstream audience.<\/p>\n<p>Piers Morgan, fired by Good Morning Britain in 2021, said the bond between daily breakfast viewers and hosts is unique.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just thinking then when you were talking so eloquently about it,\u201d Stefanovic replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can go into any place around Australia from Broome to Cairns to Tassie, Launceston, and I walk into a pub and every time someone yells out, \u201cF***ing Karlos, get a beer up ya!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like that bond for me with real Australian people is something that I don\u2019t take for granted. It\u2019s a great privilege and it really is a great honour. And I don\u2019t want to lose that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s a little bit of what I worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon by Grob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;That bond for me with real Australian people is something that I don&#8217;t take for granted,&#8221; says Karl.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-775680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775680","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=775680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}