It was a hectic, boozy three days of Christmas parties leading up to the radio firebrand’s fall from grace.
By any measure, it had been a hectic, boozy three days of Christmas parties leading up to right-wing talkback radio firebrand Chris Smith’s latest career-ending fall from grace inside Merivale’s Establishment last Saturday.
He faced another round of allegations in 2009 when he reportedly made inappropriate comments to young female colleagues at the 2GB Christmas party, which was owned by John Singleton’s Maquarie Media at the time. Again he was taken off-air, momentarily. Before long he was in the plum position as Ben Fordham’s regular fill-in host on 2GB’s prestigious weekday breakfast slot.For all intents and purposes, Smith gave the appearance of a changed man. On social media there was nary a hint of the marital troubles he had been experiencing with his celebrity nutritionist second wife Susie Burrell, with whom he bought a $3.6 million home with in Naremburn in August.
Smith, who first went public about his battle with alcoholism and bipolar disorder on the front page of the Murdoch-owned Sunday Telegraph in 2009 following the drunken incident at the 2GB Christmas party, was “perfectly well-behaved” – drink in hand – at Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch’s exclusive, invite-only Christmas party in their vast Bellevue Hill mansion.
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