It’ll be all Matt White on the night

By David Knox on October 13, 2008 / Filed Under News 20

It’s now White. ‘Matt’ White.

Tonight, Matt White presents Today Tonight.

It’s not alright to call him ‘Matthew White’, following a belated re-write to ‘Matt’, got that right?

No doubt the overwrite is to make Matt seem more of a delight.

So don’t be impolite, and use your eyesight. ‘Matthew’ is now finite and ‘Matt’ is here to excite.

20 Comments »

  1. katrina September 9, 2009 at 12:29 pm -

    hi matt white he should have won dancing with the stars from katrina

  2. Justin October 13, 2008 at 10:37 pm -

    Seems the memo didn’t make it to Channel 7 news in Melbourne in time – Peter Mitchell refer to him as Matthew White at the end of the bulletin…

  3. ali October 13, 2008 at 10:08 pm -

    He was ‘Matthew’ while on sports tonight, so 7 is probably trying to distance him from 10.

  4. Amir October 13, 2008 at 6:20 pm -

    LOL. You sound drunk. :p

  5. Tepee October 13, 2008 at 5:50 pm -

    Very good David.

    But as with Richard H’s curt comment, Today Tonight will most likely still be, er, “shite”. White’s hosting will make no difference to the dubious quality of TT’s stories. After all, TT has a bit of a reputation to have formerly “clean cut” news presenters wallow in controversy and disgrace. Poor Matthew. And poor Anna Koran, I mean, “Coren”, too.

  6. Richard H October 13, 2008 at 5:01 pm -

    doesn’t matter which white he like, TT is stil gunna be SHITE!

  7. Luke W October 13, 2008 at 4:58 pm -

    On a serious note, if Seven is trying in anyway to make TT more serious now that Coren is gone and he is hosting, shortening his name from Matthew to Matt is not a good start. I will watch TT tonight just to see how he goes. I hope he doesn’t fall into the Anna Coren curse and take a slaptastic turn for the worst. We need someone serious for at least one of the 6:30 current affairs shows. Seven chose Matthew over Samantha Armitage, now make the most of the decision to let a man host it.

  8. Kuttsywood October 13, 2008 at 4:10 pm -

    That was a reference to… the matte white paint colour comments…

  9. David Knox October 13, 2008 at 3:33 pm -

    Reckon we can put that one to rest now….

  10. Kuttsywood October 13, 2008 at 2:39 pm -

    Pity he isn’t named Bored Rigid

  11. Mark October 13, 2008 at 2:30 pm -

    All Right!!!!

  12. Craig H October 13, 2008 at 2:30 pm -

    did you have a couple of glasses of Chardy with lunch today David?

  13. Ianblair23 October 13, 2008 at 2:28 pm -

    I have just watched Matthew “Matt” White host and commentate the Bathurst 1000 for five hours on Saturday and for eleven hours on Sunday. He did an remarkable job and was he was clearly in his element. I really hope that hosting this joke of a current affairs program doesn’t affect his career to dramatically. I am still at a loss as to why he put his hand for this role in the first place.

  14. GuanoLad October 13, 2008 at 2:03 pm -

    My kitchen wall is matte white.

    By the way, it’s always “all right” and never “alright”.

    Already.

  15. Daniel G October 13, 2008 at 1:47 pm -

    Dear God – he’s now a paint!

  16. Tash October 13, 2008 at 1:46 pm -

    He’ll always be Matty to me :p But i like Matthew better, i always like the full names better :)

    Good Luck to him on his debut tonight :)

  17. Mr. Do-Bee October 13, 2008 at 1:40 pm -

    Matthew White, Matt White it doesn’t really matter what he calls himself- watching Today Tonight will still be akin to watching paint dry whichever talking head is introducing the latest neighbourhood dispute from West Bogan Heights.

  18. Ianblair23 October 13, 2008 at 1:39 pm -

    How poetic David.

  19. Mark October 13, 2008 at 1:37 pm -

    Are you alright?

  20. Ben October 13, 2008 at 1:28 pm -

    Nothing says “serious host of a serious current affairs program” by shortening your name – though Kez O’Brien has got a nice ring to it.

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