Television personality Lisa Wilkinson says she has been portrayed as a 'shameless media wh**e' who wrote her new memoir just to even old scores.
The Sunday Project host told a book club lunch in Sydney on Tuesday she had been on 'quite the ride' since publicity for Agen Slot Flow Gaming Terpercaya her autobiography It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This began last month.
Wilkinson was speaking at an event organised by Dymocks booksellers at the Four Seasons Hotel which was attended by her author husband Peter FitzSimons and their children Jake, Louis and Billi.
The 61-year-old told an audience of more than 200 guests, almost all of them women, she might be a journalist and TV host and had been an editor and radio presenter but was not really an author.
Television personality Lisa Wilkinson says she has been portrayed as a 'shameless media wh**e' who wrote her new memoir just to even up old scores.
Wilkinson spoke out at a book club lunch attended by author husband Peter FitzSimons and daughter Bill (all pictured)
Wilkinson has been criticised for everything from allegedly misrepresenting the pay difference between her and Karl Stefanovic when they hosted Today to fleeing the western suburbs
As a girl growing up in Sydney's south-west she had also been a 'ridiculously enthusiastic shop assistant at Wrench's Shoes in Campbelltown, on Thursday nights and Saturday mornings.'
'And apparently if you've seen any of the tabloid media over the last five weeks, I'm also a craven, shameless media wh**e who's just written a revenge memoir designed to get back at anyone who's ever done me wrong.'
Wilkinson has been criticised for everything from allegedly misrepresenting the pay difference between her and Karl Stefanovic when they hosted Today to fleeing the western suburbs.
She has also been accused of perpetually portraying herself as a victim when other women faced far more difficult circumstances.
When Wilkinson took questions at the sold-out lunch a young woman said 'you've been through so much especially in the last five weeks since the book's come out' and asked about her mental health.
When Wilkinson took questions at the sold-out lunch a young woman said 'you've been through so much especially in the last five weeks since the book's come out' and asked about her mental health
Wilkinson told an audience of more than 200 guests, almost all of them women, she might be a journalist and TV host and had been an editor and radio presenter but was not really an author
'Don't ask me that,' Wilkinson replied.
'You should ask my husband that. I'm fine, according to Pete. Yep. I'm good. I'm great. I'm terrific. I'm on holidays. But thank you for asking. That's very kind of you.'
Wilkinson, who reportedly earns $1.7million a year, is on a three-week break from The Sunday Project and is not due to return to the program until December 5.
Channel Ten has denied Wilkinson's absence was related to the show's ratings slump or negative publicity surrounding her memoir.
Wilkinson was instead taking time off ahead of the Christmas-New Year period when she would fill in as main weekday host while Carrie Bickmore is on holiday.
Wilkinson, who reportedly earns $1.7million a year, is on a three-week break from The Sunday Project and is not due to return to the program until December 5
Wilkinson used part of her speech to rail against violence against women and highlight a gender pay gap she said it was projected would take between 26 and 135 years to close.
'And on the treatment of women in some corners of our media, particularly social media, it's clear that we still have a long way to go,' she said.
'It's the narrative that often develops around women that so easily goes unchecked.
Why do we tolerate it? Because somewhere along the way we have as a society given our permission.'
'Every time we engage, uncritically, with this nonsense, every time we pick up one of those magazines in the doctor's waiting room.
'Every time we click on that salacious link, not believing the ridiculous emotion-charged headline but clicking on that link nonetheless.
'In these spaces women exist only to be ogled at, picked on, ridiculed, laughed at or scorned.
'It's designed to make us feel better about our own lot in life but it doesn't, it simply brings out the very worst in human nature.'
Mark Latham claimed an old classmate of Wilkinson's (pictured) had told him the TV star had 'always been about the money' and sold freebies from her first job to make a profit