The Sunday Project host has, however, been inundated from calls and messages from friends and fellow female TV journalists echoing similar mistreatment at the hands of the “boys’ club”.“Messages saying ‘Lisa, you’ve described what happened to me last year or three years ago’,” Wilkinson said. “Or ‘Lisa, this is why I left television’.“I tell you I am feeling quite overwhelmed at the moment. “I know that I haven’t written a word in anger. I’ve waited four years to tell the story of what happened when I left Channel 9 because that perspective is really important.“But, yeah I certainly haven’t heard from anyone in (Nine) management.” She added Nine executives had plenty to say in the days after her abrupt departure from Nine. “I didn’t engage in any of that because it is not my style to go tit-for-tat, I would have …” Wilkinson shared, pausing, before adding “There’s no opportunity to be a winner when you have a public slanging match. I figured my moment to tell the truth of what happened would come eventually. And I wanted all the heat to be out of it.”In two explosive book extracts released on Sunday, Wilkinson detailed her final day on the Today morning show set, including her deeply awkward final encounter with co-host Karl Stefanovic, her bizarre last program, and how her bid for fairer pay led to the shocking discovery that she had been dismissed. “What’s out there at the moment looks like I am trying to attack Karl, but as you know in the book, that’s not what I’m doing,” she said.“I’m just not keeping men’s secrets anymore. “I think, as women, when we do that all we do is strengthen the boys’ club and we do women a disservice.“Because to make somebody feel diminished, you isolate them and you make them think that what they are experiencing is only there’s and there’s alone and that they can’t share that with anyone and be empowered by anyone else’s experiences.” Meanwhile, Stefanovic was a no-show on the Today show on Monday in the wake of Wilkinson’s bombshell claims about her departure from Nine in 2017.The TV presenter, 47, has not commented since the extract was published.Nine said Stefanovic was on ‘planned leave’ on Monday, and had also taken Friday off. His absence wasn’t acknowledged at the start of Monday’s program, with Today Extra co-anchor David Campbell filling in alongside his usual co-host Allison Langdon.Nine declined to comment on its executives’ non-response to the extracts.
Source: Sun Herald
