Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa have opened up about their radio segments that went horribly wrong and almost cost a pair of celebrities their lives.
Nova’s loveable larrikins Fitzy and Wippa have admitted they very nearly killed two of the world’s biggest stars (accidentally, of course).
The duo made the confession during a chat with news.com.au to celebrate their 10-year anniversary as hosts of the Nova breakfast show in Sydney.
The radio stars opened up about the segments that didn’t go to plan as well as some of their most bizarre celebrity encounters.
Ed Sheeran
The Bad Habits singer has appeared on Fitzy and Wippa’s show on many occasions over the years, but almost every time something seems to have gone wrong.
“Ed got off the plane once and he was coming straight to the [Nova] studio,” Wippa said. “It was quite late in the afternoon and there were some fans downstairs wanting to meet him. We said, ‘Why don’t you come up in the lift and we’ll hide you in the boardroom and then when Ed comes in we’ll slide the door open [and surprise him].’”
Wippa said the idea was “great in theory” but they misjudged the fans’ enthusiasm.
“You know how mad those fans can be,” he said. “One of them launched at him, wrapped her arms around Ed’s neck and would not let go. Security had to tear this girl off him.”
Then there were the time they almost killed Sheeran with a birthday cake.
“The cake was an Ed Sheeran head and it was huge,” Wippa told news.com.au. But the radio hosts didn’t mention to the singer that there was some wire in the cake to hold it all together.
“He launched his head into the cake,” Fitzy said. “And this piece of wire scratched Ed’s nose, but it could easily have gone straight up his nose.
“He put the cake down and we had a bit of a laugh about it and said, ‘Thank god for that’,” Fitzy said. “And then our sound guy pushed a light over accidentally and it landed on Ed’s head!”
“It was a rough one that day,” Wippa laughed.
And finally there was the time that Fitzy and Wippa invited Russell Crowe onto the show who accidentally let slip that Sheeran was engaged to his partner, Cherry Seaborn.
“I remember that moment because when he [Crowe] said it we all looked at each other and he had no idea that he’d said it,” Fitzy recalled.
The slip-up made headlines around the world.
Jamie Oliver
Another celebrity who had a near-death experience at the hands of Fitzy and Wippa was Jamie Oliver.
The British chef had a suspected case of food poisoning after sampling a new snack designed by the radio duo.
“Every Royal Easter Show there’s always a new food that comes out … it’s always meat on a stick,” Fitzy told news.com.au. “We thought, ‘What about meat and three veg on a stick?’
“A guy put it together for us. I think it was beef with corn, mashed potato and peas all packed in and then we crumbed the crap out of it.”
The unique food item was prepared the night before Oliver’s interview and was stored in the Nova kitchen fridge.
“I think it had actually been out of the fridge for about five hours so it was room temperature when Jamie bit into it,” Wippa said.
“Jamie joked at the time and said, ‘I’m going to get food poisoning’,” Fitzy laughed. “And we got told the next day that he had to cancel a couple of interviews [that afternoon] because he wanted to go back to his hotel.”
“To our credit it tasted pretty good,” Wippa added. “I mean, he nearly died, but …”
Boy George’s bizarre rapping
One of Fitzy and Wippa’s most popular segments is ‘Rap Up of the Week’ where a celebrity guest takes on one of the radio hosts in a rap battle.
The raps are meant to be filled with hilarious insults directed at their opponent, but Boy George clearly didn’t understand the brief.
“On that day we’d been waiting over an hour,” Wippa told news.com.au their interview with Boy George and Seal who were coaches on The Voice at the time. “I remember being so tired.
“Seal was there wearing a leather jacket and a camera across his chest taking photos. He’d done all this weird gear and Fitzy and I were like, ‘We’re over this’.”
But Wippa’s mood improved when the executive producer of their radio show, Tom Ivey, told them that Boy George had prepared a rap himself and was ready to perform.
“We were like, ‘Oh my god, this is great! Such a big name and he’s gone to so much effort,’” Wippa said.
What happened next shocked them.
“It was so bad!” Fitzy said about Boy George’s performance.
“We just sat there going, ‘Is this the rap we’ve waited an hour for?’” Wippa laughed. “He’s a lovely bloke though.”
Injuring the show’s newsreader
Matt de Groot is Fitzy and Wippa’s newsreader and has been the victim of many of their pranks over the years. But he wasn’t laughing when they arranged for him to have a fight with former NRL star turned professional boxer, Paul Gallen.
“Paul Gallen was fighting Barry Hall and he (de Groot) looks like Barry Hall,” Wippa explained. “So we said, ‘Paul, why don’t we organise a Barry Hall lookalike for you so you know what to expect on the night.’
“We just didn’t expect Paul to go as hard as he did.”
The professional boxer didn’t hold back and seriously injured the newsreader during what was supposed to be a fun fight.
“He fractured a rib,” Fitzy said about de Groot. “Actually I think it was two ribs. He had to have a few days off work but it was very humorous for us.”
The one stunt they still want to do
Fitzy and Wippa have hosted more than 2000 shows since they started in the breakfast slot in 2011.
“We honestly didn’t believe we’d last 10 years,” Fitzy told news.com.au.
“No, I thought it had 18 months in it to be honest,” Wippa joked.
And the duo say they have no plans to give up their gig anytime soon.
“We’re under contract for a while but we’re loving it,” Wippa said. “It’s still fun.”
One thing that fuels their desire to remain on air is a stunt that they’re still desperate to do despite a decade of rejections.
“There’s a thing called the Platy-Pinata-Pus,” Wippa said. “It’s a sore point.”
“We wanted to build the world’s biggest platypus and it was going to be like a pinata,” Fitzy explained. “It was going to be about 10 stories high and it was going to be smashed with a wrecking ball. In the platypus there was going to be numbers and underneath the platypus was a grid set up and if a prize landed on your grid number, you won that prize.
“The Platy-Pinata-Pus has been in the pipeline for 10 years now and we can’t get it over the line with a sponsor,” Fitzy told news.com.au.
“We got very close with KFC one time and they said, ‘what if it was a chicken leg hitting the giant Platy-pinata-pus?’” Wippa said. “We went, ‘No, doesn’t sound the same. Why would the chicken hit the puss? No way!’”
“We just love the name so much that we will go until we get it,” Fitzy joked.
Fitzy and Wippa airs weekdays from 6-9am on Nova 96.9 and you can hear the Best of Fitzy & Wippa from 6pm across the Nova network
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