Studio 10 feud: Denise Drysdale finally speaks out after Ita Buttrose farewell
Denise Drysdale has finally spoken out after Ita Buttrose’s farewell from Studio 10, addressing rumours of a feud between the pair.
Drysdale was noticeably silent as Buttrose’s colleagues Sarah Harris and Joe Hildebrand showered the one-time editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly with praise yesterday, doing little to calm rumours of tension behind the scenes.
But in an interview on 2DayFM Breakfast with Em, Grant & Ed Drysdale put her silence down to emotions stirred by ANZAC Day.
“The show as we know it is not the same any more, with Jess [Rowe] going. Jess and I hit it off really, really well. And now Ita going, well — it’s a different show. You’ve got two totally different people that have gone ... I’m sure we’ll pick up,” Drysdale told Grant Denyer.
“That was because of Anzac Day. Having a close association with the Vietnam vets, that feeling gets stronger every year. It really gets me. As you get older, you get more emotional,” she said.
Denyer kept prying, asking Drysdale if she was going to miss having her old “sparring partner” at the Studio 10 desk, to which Drysdale said, “No.”
Tensions between the two were rumoured to have dramtically escalated last year when Drysdale hurled a Brussels sprout at Buttrose, and Denyer couldn’t miss the oppportuntiy to bring this up.
“Oh, bloody hell,” Drysdale sighed.
“Oh, I’ve got a big bag of brussels sprouts and nothing to do with them,”
“Look, I threw that Brussels sprout because I’d got up at four in the morning to come in and do the Christmas song. And at about four o clock in the afternoon, [after] we’d had a couple of champagnes for lunch, I was feeling ... The Christmas party was that night, so I’d had my party in the afternoon!”
Buttrose said goodbye to Studio 10 yesterday after five years in the role, telling viewers she was hoping to spend more time with her grandchildren.
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