Today, co-host Ally Langdon suddenly disappeared from the screens this morning, leaving Karl Stefanovic alone to present the rest of the show.
Today, co-host Ally Langdon abruptly disappeared from the screens this morning, leaving Karl Stefanovic alone to conduct the rest of the show.
Stefanovic revealed to viewers on Monday shortly before 7 a.m. that his co-presenter had gone home sick from a “frog in the throat.”
“Welcome back to the show. Home down, home down,” Stefanovic said after a commercial break.
“Now Ally has unfortunately had to go home. She has a very big frog in her throat. She will be back on deck tomorrow. In the meantime, it is an empty seat,” he said.
Today presenter Brooke Boney joked that Stefanovic “seemed more relaxed” presenting solo.
“Look, she’s pushing me to the limit. I never know what’s going to happen,” he joked.
Langdon’s departure in the middle of the show comes after the illness last month affected the hosts Todaythe rival breakfast program, Seven’s Sunrise.
David Koch left Sunrise it aired three hours earlier due to a health issue on May 3, with co-host Natalie Barr telling viewers she was suffering from a laryngitis attack.
“You may notice something slightly different,” he told the camera.
“Kochie came in [and] he fought bravely for about 25 minutes. She had laryngitis yesterday and it looks like she still has it. I really couldn’t talk. “
Both Barr and Koch fell ill at the same time in March and left Sunrise without his usual hosts for a week, as Barr battled a severe cold and Koch tested positive for Covid-19.
Covid’s scares have appeared on breakfast television during the pandemic, with TodayEntertainment journalist Richard Wilkins was one of the first high-profile Australians to catch the virus in 2020, and sent his colleagues to fight to contain the spread.
Since then, the other stars of Today they have been devastated by the disease, with Stefanovic and his family contracting Covid over Christmas, while Langdon and Boney caught it after attending a March charity party.