Mel's new role a real comedown

New Sunrise entertainment reporter Melissa Doyle puts on a brave face this morning. Picture: Channel 7 Source: Supplied

OUSTED Sunrise host Melissa Doyle this week returned to the breakfast television show she anchored for 11 years - as an entertainment correspondent.

Following a two-week long holiday in the US, where she attended the 50th birthday of Sunrise showbiz reporter Nelson Aspen, Doyle appeared this morning in a studio cross from New York to present an entertainment package featuring a review of Justin Timberlake's steamy new video clip.

She also plugged a forthcoming interview with actor Hugh Jackman for later in the week.

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Melissa Doyle chats about Justin Timberlake with David Koch and her replacement Sam Armytage. Picture: Channel 7

Channel 7 confirmed Doyle was briefly on Monday's show.

The Molly-Meldrum-style reports represent a monumental backward step in the career of the one-time queen of Australian breakfast television but suggest the spin doctors at Seven are working hard to put Doyle's removal from the helm of Sunrise behind them amid talk of a minimum $150,000 pay cut - which would bring her salary down to around $500,000 a year.

Comments at the weekend by her longtime co-anchor David Koch supported Confidential's June 22 report that Koch last year took a pay cut in return for a long-term contract at the network.

"Basically everyone ... has had their conditions cut back over the past two or three years. We are no different to anybody else," Koch said.

The statement gives weight to talk that while Doyle's ambitions have grown at Seven in recent years - as reflected by her decision to move to Shane Warne's bigtime international management agency SEL - Koch has played a more considered game, opting for job security during uncertain times rather than higher income.

Melissa Doyle is excited to be chatting to Hugh Jackman in New York. Picture: Channel 7

It's a play that has served him well.

 

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