Sunrise host Mylee Hogan returns to the news desk after Glenn McGrath joke

Sunrise presenter Mylee Hogan has returned to the newsroom weeks after she was dropped from television for joking about the death of Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath.

Hogan made the joke after a report about a TikTok trend in which children film their parents’ shocked reactions when they are falsely told that a favorite celebrity has died.

The segment stunned his co-hosts who tried to get past an interview with former fast bowler McGrath, but Hogan then blurted out: ‘Glenn McGrath died!’

Sunrise presenter Mylee Hogan (pictured) returned to the newsroom weeks after she was dropped from television for joking about the death of Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath.

After taking time out of the studio following the uproar from viewers, he returned to presenting Seven’s Early News beginning at 5am on Wednesday morning.

When Breaking Dawn began at 5:30 a.m., Hogan transitioned to the show’s newsreader.

Hogan had only been welcomed to Sunrise as a studio host on December 23, over the Christmas break, prior to her December 28 prank.

Outraged viewers vowed to boycott the show if Hogan stayed, calling the comment insensitive after McGrath’s wife, Jane, died in 2008 of breast cancer.

After taking time out of the studio following the uproar from viewers, he returned to presenting Seven’s Early News beginning at 5am on Wednesday. When Breaking Dawn began at 5:30 a.m. (pictured), Hogan transitioned into the show’s newsreader.

Last Tuesday, Edwina Bartholomew took Hogan’s place as news anchor at the end of the desk, and Monique Wright moved into the spot alongside Mark Beretta.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Seven for comment.

He made a bizarre joke about McGrath after his report on TikTok’s fake death videos, which co-host Beretta called “the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.”

I do not like. We shouldn’t be running that. Take it off. Take it off now,” she added.

Hogan said he thought the cruel madness of social media was “really funny” and insisted to Beretta and Bartholomew that it was “just a bit of fun”.

But when Beretta went on to speak to former Australian fast bowler McGrath about the Boxing Day Test, Hogan angered fans with his joke about the star’s death.

The comment, which was off camera but clearly heard, drew an angry reaction from Beretta and Bartholomew.

Hogan made the bizarre prank last month after a report about a TikTok trend where kids film their parents’ shocked reactions when falsely told that a favorite celebrity has died.

“Not even…that’s not funny,” Bartholomew said as Hogan laughed. Beretta added: ‘I don’t understand that at all. It’s not funny. It’s crazy…’

A stern-faced Bartholomew immediately apologized to viewers, adding: ‘It’s not funny. Sorry.’

The show then interviewed McGrath, whose wife Jane died in 2008 of breast cancer, about the third day of the Second Test against South Africa.

It provoked a furious reaction from some viewers who vowed to boycott the show if Hogan remained on the screen.

The segment shocked his co-hosts who tried to get past an interview with former fast bowler McGrath, but Hogan then blurted out: “Glenn McGrath died!”

“We won’t be watching Sunrise again if that raven-haired girl reads the news again,” a fan of the show posted on Facebook.

‘Please remove that girl from Channel 7; we will feel sick every time we see her face. She made a comment about Glenn McGrath’s death and laughed. Don’t you know that Glenn’s first wife, Jane, tragically died of breast cancer?

‘It won’t matter if he apologizes, in his mind he hasn’t done anything wrong. How immature and insensitive she is.

Another viewer tweeted: “Terrible, terrible, tasteless joke, joking with people that someone has died, especially when the next guest has lost a wife.” Please don’t reissue.

Stand-in anchor Mark Beretta (right) ended the report early, while a stern-faced Edwina Bartholomew apologized to viewers for Hogan’s unfunny outburst.