After a difficult few years, Polly Gillespie had cautiously hoped 2023 might be a little more settled. But with the shock closure of Today FM, the talk radio station on which Polly hosted a popular evening show, she was once again plunged into unemployment and uncertainty. Losing her job was a blow she really didn’t see coming.
“It felt like being hit on the side of the head with a baseball bat,” says the legendary Kiwi broadcaster, who was made redundant from her More FM job two years earlier. “It was shocking because there was no warning. No warning at all.”
Although she was stunned by the closure less than a year after its much-hyped launch, the seasoned radio star is surprisingly sanguine as at our exclusive photo shoot. After more than 30 years in the business, she’s learned to approach life with “zero expectations”.
