Eddie McGuire to return to radio with new gig on 3AW

Eddie McGuire stepped away from radio in 2020 after more than a decade on Melbourne’s Triple M.

And now the media personality is ready to return to the airwaves as a regular guest on Neil Mitchell’s popular 3AW morning show.

‘He is a free agent and a loose cannon, what else could you ask for,’ Mitchell told the Herald Sun of McGuire.

‘Eddie and I have been discussing, arguing, laughing together for probably 30 years, so why don’t we put it on air,’ he continued.

Mitchell said that their fortnightly segment will be called the ‘Ideas Factory’.

‘It is about ideas,’ he explained. ‘Eddie is always good for an idea, I usually have a few, we can throw them around and agree or disagree or whatever.’

Neil Mitchell’s 3AW morning show is one of the highest rated shows on radio. 

Excited: ‘Eddie and I have been discussing, arguing, laughing together for probably 30 years, so why don’t we put it on air,’ Neil Mitchell said

Eddie wrapped up 11 years on Triple M Melbourne’s The Hot Breakfast in November, 2020.

Speaking to the Herald Sun at the time, the 57-year-old claimed he had been ‘hurting for a while’ with the weight of the decision to leave radio.

Eddie joined Triple M in 1988 as a young journalist and had been on the Hot Breakfast show since 2009. 

‘Always in the build-up to any announcement like this you convince yourself five times over to keep going, to not go, to keep going, to not go, because you love doing the show, but it has been hurting for a while,’ he admitted.

Flashback: Eddie wrapped up 11 years on Triple M Melbourne’s The Hot Breakfast in November, 2020

‘To be honest the constant feeling of jet lag you have when you are doing breakfast radio, it compounds the longer you do it, and you also get a bit older,’ he said.

Eddie also added that his various other personal and professional commitments regularly kept ‘massive slabs of [his] diary blocked out’, which left him ‘tired’.

‘So that is where it is at. I’m looking forward to being a bit more relaxed, to be perfectly honest,’ he reasoned.

Ideas: ‘Eddie is always good for an idea, I usually have a few, we can throw them around and agree or disagree or whatever,’ Neil said of Eddie