Former ABC star set to take on huge new role at Channel Seven alongside veteran Mike Amor
Former ABC star Karina Cavarlho will share Channel Seven Melbourne’s weekend news desk with Mike Amor from Saturday.
The 44-year-old news veteran comes to the high-profile gig after replacing Peter Mitchell on the weekday news this summer.
Karina made headlines in 2023 when she dramatically left the ABC after a whopping 17 years with the national broadcaster.
“You know you love your job when you have to work when everyone else is on vacation and you don’t mind,” she joked to the Herald Sun after Seven announced her new role on Friday.
The Sri Lankan-born beauty, who started at Seven in July, has been in Mitchell’s chair during the week for the past five weeks.
“The whole team that was there over the summer was a lot of fun,” she said in her interview with the publication.
Former ABC star Karina Cavarlho will co-host Saturday’s Seven News Melbourne weekend bulletin, the Herald Sun reports. In the photo: Karina Cavalho
The 44-year-old news veteran comes to the high-profile gig after filling in on weekday news last summer. In the photo: Mike Amor
Elsewhere in the chat, Karina said she was enjoying being back in Melbourne after being based there while working at ABC News Breakfast.
“I probably shouldn’t mention the ABC, but it was so funny talking to some of my friends from there because you don’t really realize there’s life after the ABC,” she joked.
She also said she has enjoyed trips to esteemed sporting events such as Test cricket and the Australian Open during the summer holidays.
“Even on Boxing Day I would read the 6pm news, but during the day I would come into the cricket and just be exposed to all these different experiences,” she said.
It comes next Karina revealed in December 2023 that she had quit her job as a presenter of the ABC News channel after 17 years in the broadcaster.
She expressed her bittersweet feelings about leaving the ABC at the time.
“The ABC will always have a special place in my heart,” Karina said in her farewell statement.
“I have had the opportunity to meet and work with so many talented people,” she told The Australian ahead of her latest bulletin,” she continued.
Karina made headlines in 2023 when she dramatically parted ways with the ABC after working for the national broadcaster for a whopping 17 years
“This is the right time to enter the next phase of my career and I’m excited to see what lies ahead.
“I wish my colleagues at the ABC nothing but the best.”
Karina’s distinguished career includes five years on the ABC news program in Brisbane.
She also co-hosted ABC News Breakfast in Melbourne.
Her professional prowess has earned her respect and admiration from colleagues and viewers alike.
Karina had been at ABC’s 24-hour TV news station in Sydney when she chose to walk away.
The impetus for the move, sources say, was that she had become disillusioned with many aspects of the ABC’s culture.
She is concerned about the ABC’s editorial direction and that some fellow journalists have become “activists” rather than being neutral in their reporting, the Australian reported.
Karina She was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Perth with her family at the age of four. She has worked for the ABC across Australia.
She presented the 7pm news in both Perth and Brisbane and co-hosted the ABC News Breakfast with Michael Rowland from Melbourne.
At the time of Karina’s resignation, Ny Breaking Australia contacted her for comment. The ABC declined to comment.