Lauren Phillips replaces PJ Harding on KIIS 101.1 breakfast
July 22, 2021 10:01
Australian Radio Network (ARN) has finally announced its new-look breakfast show on KIIS 101.1 Melbourne, with Lauren Phillips set to join Jase Hawkins on the show from 9 August.
Phillips’ appointment follows months of speculation after Polly ‘PJ’ Harding revealed she would be departing the show back in March.
She will join Hawkins as the full-time co-host of ‘Jase & Lauren in the Morning’, after spending time over last summer presenting the KIIS Melbourne Summer Breakfast show with Ryan Jon.
ARN chief content officer, Duncan Campbell, said: “KIIS 101.1 will now deliver Melbourne’s ‘show in the know’. Together with their love and passion for Melbourne, Jase & Lauren in the Morning will be fun and fresh, keeping listeners in the loop across all the news around town.
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Phillips joins co-host Jase Hawkins from Monday, August 9.
ARN also flagged there will be further announcements coming “very soon” on who else will be joining the program.
ARN said Phillips is “one of Australia’s most loved presenters”, and together with Hawkins she will create Melbourne’s “freshest” Breakfast show.
“A genuine and relatable Melbourne girl to her core, Lauren will bring her local knowledge, humour and upbeat warmth to listeners each morning, starting conversations about all the things that matter to Melburnians – from what’s hot and fun around town, to the latest in footy and more,” ARN publicity said.
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Radio Today has asked ARN for clarification around why it beeped out some of Jones’ claims, but not others.
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“Last time that I did the
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