The 37-year-old surprised everyone when she announced she was walking away from her high-profile breakfast television job. Her next move? Oxford University.
In March this year, Brooke Boney was staying with her younger brother in her home town of Muswellbrook, in the NSW Hunter Valley, killing time as she endured the hellish limbo that comes when you’re really, really sweating on hearing from someone.
After weeks of torture, the ever-resilient Boney soothed herself with some positive self-talk. “I said, ‘Okay, maybe I didn’t get in and that’s fine. It’s not my path.’ Another factor was those early mornings – her job requires her to wake at 3.30am, five days a week. “My contract was coming up for renewal and I thought, ‘Can I wake up early for another three years, or five years?’”
“They weren’t allowed to do anything when they were kids,” Boney says. “Pop told me a story about how, when he and his brother wanted to get money for the show, to get on the rides or play games or whatever, people in the town would pay them to fight each other. The backlash from that comment was “huge, and it was swift”, says Boney. And while it has calmed down, it has never gone away. She is still trolled, harassed and abused on social media. Sometimes she needs security outside her home. She shows me one recent threat on her Instagram, and it’s vile.
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