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Karl Stefanovic crashes at James Packer’s pad after split from wife

Stefanovic has often referred to Cassandra as a driving force in his success.

Stefanovic has often referred to Cassandra as a driving force in his success. Photo: AAP

Nine Network star and Today show host Karl Stefanovic has reportedly split from his wife.

It’s understood Stefanovic has moved out of the family home and is staying at the Bondi apartment of his billionaire mate James Packer.

 

 

Stefanovic and Cassandra Thorburn have been married for 21 years.

They met in the mid 1990s while Stefanovic was working with regional network WIN Television and Thorburn with ABC radio in Rockhampton.

They have three children.

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Stefanovic has been in hot water lately.

The couple was photographed together in May at a Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia show, where they were smiling and appeared happy together.

The Sunday Telegraph reports Stefanovic and Thorburn are trying to “work their marriage out”.

Stefanovic met Thorburn in the mid 1990s at a party and was immediately smitten, he told The Sydney Morning Herald in 2014.

He had just moved to Rockhampton to work as a cub reporter for WIN television and she was working for ABC radio.

“She told me I look like a preppy. She said, ‘I suppose that’s how you got your job in television, because of your pretty-boy looks’.”

“It took me a while to track her down afterwards, but I did,” he said.

He praised his wife last year for giving up her own career as a journalist to support his television career.

Stefanovic has had a tough time of late.

He was recently criticised for making an “ignorant jibe” on air about transgender people.

A group of transgender people had allegedly attempted to mug Nine reporter Christine Ahern and her crew, prompting Stefanovic to repeatedly refer to the perpetrators as ‘trannies’.

“I know that you have gone to see the police about this tranny. We have a confit made up and we know they don’t all look the same. Is that the tranny they are talking about it?” he said, as a sketch of Hugo Weaving in Priscilla, Queen of The Desert appeared on the screen.

After a day of serious social media backlash, Stefanovic offered a sincere apology for his ignorance.

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