{"id":788858,"date":"2026-07-09T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:05:10","slug":"melissa-leong-to-co-host-kiis-breakfast-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788858\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Leong to co-host KIIS Breakfast next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-5674.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMelissa Leong. Image supplied by ARN.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa Leong is set to join KIIS FM Sydney Breakfast from this Monday (July 13), stepping in for a special guest hosting week alongside Mike E and Brooklyn Ross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa is best known for her role as host and judge on MasterChef Australia, Dessert Masters, Junior MasterChef and Celebrity MasterChef. Alongside her television career, she has also worked as a journalist and food critic across radio, magazines and podcasting, as well as hosting large scale live events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa is the latest in a series of guest hosts to join the KIIS Breakfast team in the post Kyle &amp; Jackie O Show era, following appearances from Georgie Tunny, Bianca Dye, Abbie Chatfield and Amy Gerard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa said \u201cYou had me at \u2018breakfast\u2019. I am thrilled to be returning to radio with KIIS this July. If there was ever a reason to get up before dawn again for work, this\u2019ll be it!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa Leong. Image supplied by ARN. Melissa Leong is set to join KIIS FM Sydney Breakfast from this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[33024,64,63,372073,447,134,360896,264395,147438,372074,252854],"class_list":["post-788858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-arn","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brooklyn-ross","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kiis-breakfast","tag-kiis-network","tag-kyle-jackie-o","tag-melissa-leong","tag-mike-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788858","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=788858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}