Ugly Phil Probably Feeling Uglier Than Ever At The Moment
It sucks when your ex moves on and ends up being much more successful than you career-wise, especially if their career started with your help. It must suck even more to learn that the walloping you’re copping at work is due to the success of said ex, and it’s lead to your bosses seeking out a replacement for you. So try and muster up something resembling sympathy for Triple M breakfast host Ugly Phil O’Neill as we take a look at the latest episode of Days Of Our Radio Broadcasters.
Reports the Daily Telegraph:
Breakfast radio host Ugly Phil O’Neil is once again facing an uncertain future following word that Triple M bosses have started casting about to replace the radio veteran. With Triple M’s breakfast radio ratings struggling in the latest survey, radio executives have been searching for a replacement breakfast team.
Lucky for Ugly Phil, the station’s initial ideal replacement has received some bad press lately. Not that it’s stopped Triple M executives continuing to look for someone – anyone – to fill Ugly Phil’s shoes.
Confidential has been told that weeks ago radio executives were planning to replace O’Neil with Matthew Johns as they moved to transform the breakfast show into a sports program. Now that Johns has fallen from favour following the group sex scandal exposed by Four Corners, the radio station is understood to have made an approach to former cricketer Michael Slater, now a regular on 2KY.
And just in case you’re completely lost when it comes to the ex I’ve been referring to…
The news is the latest twist in the career of the man who discovered and married Jackie O. Her star continues to rise on Austereo’s sister station 2DAY FM, where she has been regularly beating her ex-husband in the breakfast timeslot.
Actually, if he’s responsible for Jackie O, perhaps we should hold off on the sympathy. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO THINK WITH YOUR WILLY ALL THOSE YEARS AGO, UGLY PHIL? WHY?
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Gosh, those were the days when they were hosting the Hot 30 together. I seem to recall they were still co-hosting together for a short period after they divorced. The passive-aggression was hilarious.
I remember realising how easy it was to win prizes on the Hot 30 back in the day. Once spent the better part of a week winning CD after CD by phoning in. Came to a swift end when Jackie swore at me off-air when taking down my details, and told me to “stop fucking calling”. Potty mouth, Jackie!
They were never actually married. It was a joke he made in an interview years ago and that seems to have stuck.
Poor Ugly Phil. Loved him when we were in high school listening to the Hot 30 countdown. He even let me on the air so I could grovel for Hanson tickets.