Kate Ritchie has been on a months-long break from her Nova radio present to give attention to her well being.
But it appears the 44-year-old co-host has additionally been weighing up a profession change throughout her hiatus, with studies she is in talks to leap over to the community’s Sydney breakfast present, Fitzy & Wippa.
The Australian’s Media Diary studies Ritchie, who stepped again from her duties on Nova’s nationwide drive present Kate, Tim & Joel in October, is entertaining the thought of working alongside Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli.
While there’s been no formal announcement, Ritchie – who had co-hosted the nationwide drive timeslot since 2014 – stated in mid-January that she’d be again on-air with Joel Creasey and Tim Blackwell in “a few more weeks”.
She is but to return, with former Australian Idol star Ricki-Lee Coulter presently filling in.
Nova’s transfer to reposition Ritchie could assist clarify the absence of long-serving Fitzy & Wippa co-host Sarah McGilvray, who has been conspicuously absent for the previous two weeks.
Ritchie surprised listeners again in October when she revealed she’d be stepping away from the present for a break after a “hectic” yr.
“As some of you may have heard from me on the show today, this past year has been hectic for my family and I. I have had much change, like many of you, in a short space of time and it has taken its toll,” Ritchie wrote on social media.
“So I’ve made the decision to take a short break to have more time for myself and my family to re-energise.”
Ritchie’s break wasn’t completely restful, nevertheless. She publicly known as out the Daily Mail earlier than Christmas over what she described as a “shocking invasion of privacy” once they revealed paparazzi photographs of her outdoors a psychological well being facility.
“I decided to use this time to do something positive by getting the help I need from professionals who specialise in this area,” Ritchie wrote on Instagram.
“As everyone would understand, this is a very big step for me to take.
“It is a shocking invasion of my privacy that the Daily Mail, through their unrelenting stalking of me, has forced me to issue this public statement, in their blatant attempt to publicly shame me on a private health matter.”
Originally revealed as Kate Ritchie in talks for enormous radio present change
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
