Caroline Wilson tells Hutchy to ‘grow up' in shock spray live on-air

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4 days ago

Caroline Wilson bluntly told Craig Hutchison to 'grow up' during a feisty spat live on Channel 7.
Hutchison, Wilson, Kane Cornes and Nick Riewoldt front The Agenda Setters on the network and the two footy greats sat silently while the media identities got into a squabble over one of Hutchy's recent business moves.
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The pre-planned segment, which Hutchison clearly did not know was going to happen, related to the media mogul's awkward appearance on radio network RSN last week after he announced a raft of sackings at the station.
Earlier this month, the TV host's SEN group purchased RSN in a $3.25 million deal and immediately set about cutting costs, including giving popular hosts Daniel Harford and Michael Felgate the flick.
Watch the Hutchy-Caro exchange in the video player above
Many long-time listeners of the station only learned the news when Hutchison fronted Felgate's Racing Pulse show last Thursday.
So Wilson took the opportunity to make a cheeky plea over her own future on the Channel 7 show.
Set up by Riewoldt in a section called The Spill, the former St Kilda captain put the vague question to Wilson: 'The hour on air of the Agenda Setters is the highest risk of all.'
The long-time Age reporter replied: 'Well, certainly if you're on air with Craig Hutchison.
'This is no respect, disrespect I should say, to Michael Felgate or Daniel Harford for that matter.
'But if you're going to remove me from the show, can you please not do it with me on-air?'
Wilson delivered the jab with a straight face and Hutchison did not take it well.
'This is not something to joke about,' he shot back.
When Wilson said 'I'm not joking about it', Hutchy said: 'No, that's incredibly disrespectful and disappointing. That story is incorrect. It didn't happen.'
Wilson, clearly surprised by Hutchison's reaction, stuck to her guns.
'Oh, don't. Craig, you walked into the studio, I know Michael Felgate already knew that his show would no longer be continuing,' she said.
'But if you're going to do it to me, I would rather it happen behind the scenes and not on air.'
With Hutchison's production company directly involved in The Agenda Setters, perhaps Wilson just signed her own papers? Watch this space.
But Hutchy wasn't taking the shot lying down.
'There was a press release the day before and there was a mature, two-way conversation on-air and you're making light of it, which is disappointing,' a seemingly hurt Hutchy replied.
Wilson then had the last word, scoffing as she said: 'Oh, grow up.'
Cornes and Riewoldt then did their best to keep the show moving, moving onto a story about Travis Boak and his habits in the bedroom the night before a game.
Somehow, that topic was nowhere near as awkward as the exchange between the old journalists.
In a bizarre segment last week, Felgate had the opportunity to grill Hutchison about why he was losing his job, with the latter doing his best to stress it wasn't a personal decision.
Felgate began the interview asking: 'I've got to start with the elephant in the room. An announcement yesterday which came out that there will be programming changes.
' Breakfast with Harf and this show, Racing Pulse, will no longer exist in the new regime.
'Just talk us through the reasoning. Why you don't want Breakfast with Harf and Racing Pulse on the new station?'
Hutchison responded: 'First of all they're magnificent shows, so no disrespect at all to the quality of the programs and the identities involved, you in particular Michael and Daniel, who have been incredible servants of RSN.
'There's nothing personal about (cancelling) either of those programs … we need to invest, over time, into the racing product, it's a racing station.
'It's a different audience to the one that we have developed over on SEN Track, very different audience, very different experience, they don't really resemble each other after midday.'
He went on to say: 'I know that won't be everyone's cup of tea on day one.
'You (Felgate) have got an enormous following, so does Daniel. The default position from many will be to have empathy for those programs and I respect that hugely. Hugely, because it's not about the quality of the shows.'
Harford, who has been an icon of the network, said on his show last Thursday it had been 'a period of uncertainty' for those involved.
'So at the end of August this program will cease to exist,' he said.
'We'll be no longer required and there will be different programming on RSN which is very sad.
'We've been doing this for a long time, which is very sad. We've had a lot of conversations about this internally for a little while.
'Certainly in the last couple of days when we found out what was going to be happening.
'So that's the reality of our situation.'
The Hutchison-led group announced RSN will double dip from the Hutchison-backed SEN network and will broadcast SEN Breakfast.
SEN's flagship breakfast slot, whish is shared between Cornes, David King, Tim Watson and Garry Lyon, will now be broadcast on two frequencies.
Felgate's Racing Pulse will be replaced by Gareth Hall's Giddy Up.