The Nathan and Nat radio duo are officially no more, with Perth\u2019s Nova 93.7 on Monday unveiling a new name for its refreshed breakfast show line-up.<\/p>\n
The station has rebranded its top-rated breakfast show to reflect longtime announcer Nathan Morris\u2019 continued absence from the program.<\/p>\n
But there is still no answer to the mystery of why he vanished from the airwaves in early 2025. The station is adamant he remains on the books, even though his face and voice are no longer linked to the breakfast show he helped launch 24 years ago.<\/p>\n
Morris did make a brief on-air return in May last year, where he explained to listeners that he had been dealing with some legal issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething happened in my personal life that was one of these monumental things that happens that you can\u2019t really process,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething comes in that\u2019s so different no one has gone through it, no one can give you advice.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt started back last year and reared again this year. I can\u2019t speak too much about it because there is legal proceedings that\u2019s got nothing to do with me but I cannot speak about it because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nathan and Nat have been synonymous with Perth FM radio since Nova started in WA in 2002 and the breakfast show has been Nathan, Nat and Shaun since the former Dockers captain made the move from football to radio in 2009.<\/p>\n
The show is now known as Nat & Shaun with Joel Creasey.<\/p>\n
Fellow host Natalie \u201cNat\u201d Locke revealed the new name in the opening to Monday\u2019s show, which was her first back from a break.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a shiny new show name that reflects what\u2019s gone in at Nova for the last 18 months or so,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s business as usual, but Joel Creasey officially in the title.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Nova spokesperson confirmed Nathan remained part of the network and was currently on leave.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we don\u2019t have a timeframe for Nathan\u2019s return, we continue to support him during his time away from the business,\u201d they said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the meantime, it\u2019s important the name of the Nova 93.7 breakfast show reflects the voices our listeners hear each morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom today, the show name will be updated to Nat & Shaun with Joel Creasey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shaun is Fremantle Dockers legend Shaun McManus, who has been part of Nova\u2019s breakfast show for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n
Perth-raised comedian Creasey hosts his own national afternoon show on the network from the eastern seaboard.<\/p>\n
The station said he will continue to do The Joel Creasey Show each weekday on top of his expanded Perth radio breakfast gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nathan and Nat radio duo are officially no more, with Perth\u2019s Nova 93.7 on Monday unveiling a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[50195,156,157,111,139,69,5013],"class_list":["post-627799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-celebrity-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}