The demise of 92-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s engagement to 66-year-old right-wing radio host Ann Lesley Smith has prompted some lateral thinking at the headquarters of the Murdoch-family controlled News Corp International.
I can report exclusively that the powers that be within News Corp have been working overtime to find a new love interest for the ageing co-chair of the global company.
A top-level meeting at the company’s New York City HQ was held as soon as news of the break-up was announced.
“It was basically a brainstorming session to see how we might help Rupert seek a new lady love,” one of those who attended told me on condition of anonymity.
“Rupert himself suggested that maybe one of the company’s TV subsidiaries should craft a dating show around him.
“Naturally everyone around the table without exception greeted that as a brilliant idea.
“Rupert himself was very keen on pushing the envelope by making a version of the more racy programs such as Dating Naked and Naked Attraction.
“He told the production meeting that even at 92 he felt his body was still attractive enough to appear without clothes.
“Of course everyone around the table totally agreed with him, but luckily he lost interest when somebody ventured that he might embarrass himself if he got an erection during filming.
“While Rupert himself downplayed the possibility, everyone else around the table disagreed with him and took turns in – often very graphically – describing his virility and the undoubted strength of his erections.”
My sources told me that the Australian arm of the global company, News Corp Australia, suggested a reboot of the panel format that was popular Down Under in the 1970s and 80s through TV dating programs such as Blind Date or Perfect Match.
News Corp Australia, through its Sky TV subsidiary, even went as far as commissioning a mock-up of the “Dexter” robot that was a feature of Blind Date.
A Sky TV insider told me: “We thought it best to have one of our own Sky News stars take on the Dexter role so we looked around for someone who had no fear of embarrassing themselves, no shame, and naturally landed on James Morrow who fronts the cameras each night and never even blanches at the crap he comes out with. (below)
But I am told that ultimately Rupert punted for a six-episode reality-type show that will be an amalgam of shows like The Bachelor, Farmer Wants a Wife, Love Island, and Married at First Sight. Meat the Media Mogul has been suggested as the show’s working title.
It will be set on a tropical island and Rupert will need to eliminate a number of other suitors to snare the attentions of a range of beautiful and talented young women, one of whom will ultimately become his sixth fiancée. (main picture)
While I raised the possibility of Rupert being eliminated from contention as the series progressed, I was assured that would not happen and that he is destined – in fact guaranteed – to find his next true love by the end of the last episode.
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