Brodie Harper Always Dreamed Of Talking About The Weather

Yesterday’s piece in the Herald Sun about Channel Nine’s new weather girl Brodie Harper was filled to the brim with delightful quotes sure to entertain folks like us. In other words, it’s pisstake heaven.

After all, any article that opens earnestly with the words “Brodie Harper has always dreamed of being a weather girl. Now she’s finally got her wish.” is pretty much guaranteed to please me.

Let’s allow Brodie to explain in her own words why she’s perfect to take over Livinia Nixon’s role as the weather presenter for Channel Nine news.

“I know it sounds strange — and not many people would say this — but ever since I started my career in television I’ve wanted to do the weather,” she said. “My dad is a fisherman and my husband surfs so I am always talking about swells and wind direction.”

ALWAYS talking about swells and wind direction? Really? How gripping!

It gets better.

Harper won the job after two auditions. She said she had a feeling the job was hers when she heard one of her favourite songs — Summer Time by Thirsty Merc — playing on her car radio on the way home from the second audition.

She heard the same song the day she won the job on Postcards in 2007.

“It’s one of my favourite songs because it always makes me feel happy thinking about summer time,” she said. “When I heard it after the audition I thought ‘Yep, I reckon it’s mine.’ It was an omen.”

See, when I hear Thirsty Merc, I think “God, remember Rai Thistlethwayte’s ridiculous facial hair? And his career as a clean-cut pop star? And didn’t he briefly diddle Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter?” So I suppose that’s why I’m not living the dream, babbling about swells and wind direction to all and sundry.

Of course, I am just being daft. Congratulations to Brodie – I’m glad she got the showbiz job she’s been dreaming of all her life. And congratulations to Channel Nine for another courageous hiring! Young, blonde and tanned? Quelle surprise.

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