Mel & Ryan ‘HE’S THE BROTHER I NEVER HAD’
It’s been a year of big changes for Ryan Bridge and Melissa Chan-Green, who stepped aside from other media roles to take on the high-pressure job of hosting the new-look AM – putting their opinions and own personalities firmly in the spotlight.
But they’ll let you in on a little secret. While for the most part they try to be total professionals, come Friday after 8.30am, it’s when their “wheels start to fall off” and viewers are likely to see them in uncontrollable giggles after a Freudian slip or misspoken word.
“Sometimes Mum will text me while I’m on-air with, ‘Oh, Ryan, what have you said now?’” he laughs. “But I remind her it’s 15 hours a week of live, unscripted telly. Think of all the nonsense you would speak over that time.
“So by the end of the week – after you’ve been up at 2.30am every morning – you’re feeling a bit delirious and you can’t control what gets said.”
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