‘We thought you were dead!’ Karl Stefanovic cracks a shocking joke as Allison Langdon makes a surprise appearance on the Today show after her hydrofoiling accident
Today host Allison Langdon has been off the air for two weeks after injuring herself filming a hydrofoiling segment on the Gold Coast.
And on Monday, she surprised her co-host Karl Stefanovic by Zooming into the breakfast program to discuss her recovery and scheduled return.
Karl, 46, couldn’t resist making a joke about his 41-year-old colleague’s recent absence, greeting her with: ‘We thought you were dead!’
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‘We thought you were dead!’ Karl Stefanovic (left) cracked a shocking joke when Allison Langdon (right) made a surprise appearance on the Today show on Monday, weeks after her hydrofoiling accident. Pictured with Karl is fill-in co-host Sylvia Jeffreys
‘That’s a bit harsh!’ Allison gasped, before telling viewers: ‘We talk all time!’
‘I am going a little bit stir crazy at home,’ she said of her recovery, adding that she was seeing a physio three times a week.
Allison explained she ‘still can’t do very much’ but said she was hoping to return to the Today show in a couple of weeks.
She joked that the hydrofoiling accident was Karl’s fault – it wasn’t – and reminded her colleagues that she expected to be waited on hand and foot when she returns.
‘I am going a little bit stir crazy at home’: Allison said she was hopeful to return to Nine’s breakfast show in a couple of weeks, and was seeing a physio three times a week to aid in her slow road to recovery
Friendly banter: She joked that the accident was Karl’s fault (it wasn’t) and expecting to be waited on hand and foot by her co-host upon her return, even if that meant she entered the building in a wheelchair
Last week, Allison revealed she was finally back home after having knee surgery following her accident in Queensland two weeks earlier.
She shared a photo to Instagram of herself at home with her children, Mack, four, and Scout, two, and captioned it: ‘So nice to get home to these two.’
Allison underwent surgery days after seriously hurting her knee while filming a watersports segment for the Today show on the Gold Coast earlier this month.
Back home: The 41-year-old shared this photo to Instagram last week with her children, Mack, four, and Scout, two
During a pre-recorded segment, the Today co-host ‘badly’ injured her leg while hydrofoiling – a relatively new watersport also known as foil surfing.
Dramatic footage of the accident showed Ally being pulled from the water by her life vest by two male rescuers.
She was taken to hospital where she received treatment and flew back to Sydney on February 5 ahead of her operation.
Extreme sport: Last week, Allison underwent surgery after seriously hurting her knee while filming a watersports segment for the Today show
In a statement to Daily Mail Australia at the time, Channel Nine described what had happened as ‘an unfortunate accident’.
‘After nearly an hour of incident-free filming of a segment about hydrofoiling, Ally fell awkwardly as she headed back to the marina at the end of the shoot,’ they said.
The statement added that both Karl and Ally had a ‘comprehensive safety induction and a thorough run-through of all aspects of hydrofoiling.
Post-accident: After she was brought back to the wharf, Allison was taken to hospital where she received treatment. She flew back to Sydney on February 5 ahead of her operation