TV veteran’s new move all but confirms feud

Two months after resigning from Nine, Hayes has extended an emphatic one-fingered salute to her former 44-years at the station by agreeing to dust off a story she previously worked on for 60 Minutes before it was shelved, an interview with the widow of celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo.

Seven confirmed Hayes’ guest appearance this week with Hayes set to reshoot an interview for which Nine retains the original unbroadcast vision.

Nine insiders on Thursday said Hayes and Thomson had a bitter falling out after Nine’s botched child-recovery story in Beirut Lebanon in April 2016.

Thomson was the program’s chief-of-staff under executive producer Tom Malone when the story began taking shape.

Two months before the “grab” Thomson was promoted to program EP.

Both Thomson and Malone received promotions from Nine CEO Hugh Marks in 2016, Malone rose to head of sport, however it was Thomson a Lebanese court directly pointed a finger at over the program’s failed attempt to recover the two children of Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner.

“The Australian television was the one that funded the operation, through the sole call of Kirsty Thompson,’’ a translated excerpt from one Lebanese court document stated.

The children had been detained in Beirut after their father Ali Elamine obtained a rel...
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