Karl Stefanovic says ‘pink marriage ceremony’ to Jasmine saw associates, relatives lose jobs

Today host Karl Stefanovic has in contrast his 2018 marriage ceremony to Jasmine Yarbrough to the notorious ‘pink marriage ceremony’ from Game of Thrones as a result of so lots of the visitors ended up shedding their jobs at Channel Nine within the aftermath.

Several high-profile visitors who attended the couple’s ritzy nuptials – together with the groom himself – ended up being fired, changed or reassigned not lengthy after the newlyweds stated ‘I do’ in Mexico.

There was a substantial amount of public curiosity in Stefanovic’s personal life on the time as his divorce from first spouse Cassandra Thorburn was nonetheless making headlines.

As a outcome, his marriage ceremony to Yarbrough, which occurred on the One&Only Palmilla Resort in Los Cabos, become a media frenzy – which Nine bosses weren’t thrilled about.

Stefanovic, 47, instructed Gus Worland’s Not an Overnight Success podcast he was alarmed by the fallout from the marriage ceremony, which saw his brother Peter Stefanovic, sister-in-law Sylvia Jeffreys and associates Richard Wilkins and Tim Gilbert minimize by the community.

‘There is a shot at my marriage ceremony of my brother [Peter], Tim Gilbert [Today’s then-sports reporter], Richard Wilkins [the entertainment reporter at the time], and it was just like the pink marriage ceremony in Game of Thrones,’ he stated.

The ‘Red Wedding’ is an notorious bloodbath that occurred through the ninth episode of season three of HBO fantasy collection Game of Thrones, throughout which Robb Stark and his banner-men are killed on the marriage ceremony feast of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey for breaking a wedding pact. 

‘Everyone received totalled. Everyone received taken off the [Today] present. That was my fault. Why did it occur? I’m simply in love and getting married. It was onerous,’ Stefanovic admitted.

Stefanovic was dumped from Nine’s Today present in December 2018 whereas on his honeymoon in Aspen, Colorado, simply sooner or later after his youthful brother Peter parted methods with the community ‘to discover new alternatives’.

He defined: ‘I assumed my s**t did not stink… I used to be king of the world, however actually the subsequent day [I was fired]’.

In the 2 years main up to his marriage ceremony, Stefanovic had tarnished his public picture due to his divorce from Thorburn, his subsequent relationship with Yarbrough, and his perceived adverse perspective in direction of his colleagues.

As a outcome, the Today present nosedived within the scores, plunging to a 12-year low.

The begin of this system’s downward spiral traced again to September 2016, when it emerged Stefanovic had separated from Thorburn, the mom of his three kids.

Just a few months following the break up, he started relationship Yarbrough, a former-model-turned-shoe-designer who was 10 years his junior.

The pair had been married throughout a lavish four-day marriage ceremony in Mexico in 2018.

After his break up from Thorburn, a former journalist and TV producer, market analysis by Nine reportedly confirmed his reputation with feminine viewers had plummeted.