2GB radio host Ray Hadley has explained the backstory to how he nabbed a bombshell interview with the NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb out from under colleague Ben Fordham’s nose.
He said there’s a “pecking order” but insisted he got it fair and square.
Breakfast presenter Fordham put the police commissioner on blast on Monday telling listeners he had been dudded after locking in an interview with the media-shy top cop.
“Why isn’t she turning up on the breakfast show? Well it relates to this question that I asked the Premier Chris Minns on Friday,” an unimpressed Fordham explained to listeners on Monday morning.
“It’s a dummy spit, and it’s another example of the commissioner taking things personally instead of looking for the lesson.”
But after Fordham put the cop on blast, his colleague Hadley, who comes on air straight after on the morning show, has told listeners what happened.
“It wasn’t some 11th hour decision that was made on Monday morning, because I announced on Sunday having been told that Friday should be appearing,’’ he said.
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