Cass & Lisa's Big News-Our Final Revenge

They’ve both had public battles over the last few months. But Lisa and Cass re stronger than ever before.

When Karl Stefanovic took to Sydney Harbour for a PDA-filled luxury cruise with his much-younger model girlfriend last week, he looked like a man without a care in the world. But while the Today host knocked back champagne and flaunted his new romance to the world, it seems his ex-colleague Lisa Wilkinson and ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn have been busy forging ahead with plans to move onwards and upwards.
Determined to put her ugly divorce after 21 years of marriage to Karl behind her, former journalist Cass is reportedly just ‘weeks away’ from finalising a new media career that could make her even more successful than her Logie-winning ex.

Lisa, meanwhile, spent the week in LA in high-powered meetings with top Hollywood TV bosses amid rumours that she ‘will be the next Oprah’ – which could make Karl’s $2 million salary ‘look like loose change’ compared to her new high-powered global deal.

The Aussie mum also co-hosted a gala Hollywood event with Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Pacino – putting her squarely among the A-list set.

‘Karl is sitting pretty with his big TV salary and his model girlfriend – but he has a shock coming,’ says an industry source.

‘Cass and Lisa’s big new career plans will leave him for dust – they could just have the last laugh.’

Australia was stunned when Lisa walked out on Today after Channel Nine bosses refused to pay her the same as Karl, with the network’s CEO telling reporters her male co-host was ‘worth more’ than Lisa. At the time, Lisa was reportedly unhappy with Karl’s lack of support during her fight for equal pay – and the fact that network bosses had gone public with intimate details of their salary negotiations.

But now she’s been betrayed again, with Nine boss Hugh Marks last week boasting he was happy to see the back of Lisa.