Libbi Gorr makes shock career move two years after quitting breakfast radio

Veteran radio presenter Lisbeth ‘Libbi’ Gorr is returning to the airwaves two years after leaving ABC Radio Melbourne due to personal reasons.

The comedian, 58, recently announced she will host a weekday breakfast program on the soon to be launched digital station Disrupt Radio.

She told this week’s Stellar Magazine that listeners can expect an engaging talk back show where she will be interviewing world-famous stars.

‘Thirty years after we met, Bob Geldof is joining me for the first week. I’m gonna spend a week with Bob and see what happens,’ she said.

Libbi left her ABC Radio gig at the end of 2021, after ten years in the role, after she tragically lost her elder brother Jon in an accident and needed to spend time with family.

She revealed it was through the help of her creative agency Thinkerbell that she managed to ‘rebrand’ her image ahead of her return to the air.

Fortunately, they were able to help Libbi find the perfect gig at Disrupt, which launches on Monday.

She said listeners can expect lots of informative interviews – but admitted she is done playing her raunchy 90s alter-ego Ellie McFeast, after an infamous interview on her ABC talk show McFeast Live with a drunk Mark ‘Chopper’ Read in 1998. 

The comedian recently announced she will host a weekday breakfast program on the soon to be launched digital station Disrupt Radio

The notorious interview with the career criminal turned TV star horrified audiences after a visibly drunk Chopper rocked up and boasted about how many people he had killed.

He then leered at Gorr’s breasts and attempted to grope her in front of the studio audience.

The ABC was inundated with complaints over the shocking segment and later apologised to audiences, admitting that screening it was ‘an error of judgement’. 

She said listeners can expect lots of informative interviews – but admitted she is done playing her raunchy 90s alter-ego Ellie McFeast, after an infamous interview on her ABC talk show McFeast Live with a drunk Mark ‘Chopper’ Read (pictured) in 1998 

The notorious interview with the career criminal turned TV star horrified audiences after a visibly drunk Chopper Read rocked up and boasted about how many people he had killed

The aftermath saw Gorr sadly blamed by many, as people questioned why she ever thought it would be a good idea to book a notorious career criminal for a talk show.

The ABC have worked hard to ensure footage of the event does not resurface on social media and it was recently pulled from YouTube over ‘copyright grounds’. 

‘I was cancelled before it was invented. I probably lost about four years. I didn’t realise I was in a dark place because no-one talked about dark places back then, but I was definitely knocked sideways by it.’

Fortunately, Libbi worked hard to reestablish her image and in the years since rebranded herself as a hard-hitting journalist. 

Fortunately, Libbi worked hard to reestablish her image and in the years since rebranded herself as a hard-hitting journalist