Radio presenter's embarrassing reason for show's dead air
Nova 93.7 presenter Ross Wallman has reluctantly come clean as to why the Perth station went off-air early on Tuesday morning without notice.
Speaking candidly on Nathan, Nat & Shaun's breakfast show, the radio personality explained how he'd broken the number one rule of radio while preoccupied with a number two.
'I don't like talking about this, but if you were listening this morning at 5:40am, we went off air,' Wallman told his breakfast colleagues.
'Why's that, Ross?' Nat Locke asked.
'Well, it's a little technical thing. It's my responsibility to keep us on air...' he said.
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'I happened to be in the toilet at the time... Just doing what I gotta' do, business.'
'Poo...?' Locke teased.
'And then I heard it go off-air so I had to run back in, but I couldn't because I had to use the toilet paper. But the toilet paper was brand new toilet paper so I couldn't get that first bit,' Wallman explained, with McManus in hysterics.
'So I couldn't start it off, so I'm tearing at it, and little tiny flakes are coming off. And Amy's (breakfast show producer) paging me, 'Ross, we're off air! Come to the studio!' Ross Wallman detailed his embarrassing incident. Credit: Nathan, Nat and Shaun / IG
''I can't come to the studio until this is finished!'... Anyway, that was my morning.'
However, the luckless presenter appeared more nervous about crafting an explanation to network executives than confessing the blunder to listeners and his co-presenters.
'Because we were off-air for long enough that it triggers an automatic alert to all the people in charge...' Locke said.
To which Wallman exclaimed, 'I have to write an official report now, as to why we went off-air at 5:40!'
Despite the network achieving a favourable recent survey result, regular listeners would have noticed the continued absence of breakfast show stalwart Nathan Morris, following a brief return to the airwaves earlier this month.
The Kalgoorlie-raised presenter has spent much of the last three months away from the studio, which he addressed upon his return on May 5.
'Sometimes, something comes in that's so different no-one has gone through it, no-one can give you advice,' he told listeners. Nat Locke, F1 commentator David Croft, Shaun McManus and Ross Wallman. Credit: Nathan, Nat and Shaun/IG / IG
'It's legal proceedings (that have) got nothing to do with me but I cannot speak about it because of that.'
Morris said he needed to take time away to 'deal with that situation and also sort of process what had happened'.
Following his latest leave of absence, listeners have expressed their continued support for the star.
'Does anyone know when Nathan will be back again? Assuming he's away for the same reason as last time. Hope he's able to get some help as miss him on the airwaves!' one fan wrote on Instagram.
Another said, 'Obviously its affected him deeply and just hope he's getting the help and support he needs and he's back on air soon as not the same without him'.
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