Studio 10’s Kerri-Anne Kennerley is caught insulting a journalist on air

She has worked in the media for more than five decades, so it’s unsurprising Kerri-Anne Kennerley has had her fair share of on-air gaffes.

The 66-year-old Studio 10 host revealed on Friday that her big mouth had landed her in trouble when she was working as a radio announcer in the 1990s.

She made unflattering comments about a journalist during a commercial break and didn’t realise her microphone was still on.

She said: ‘It was a commercial break and my panel operator asked me a question about something that was written in the previous day’s newspaper.

‘I explained how unhappy and unsatisfied with the journalist [I was] and probably gave her a bit of a critique that wasn’t that flattering.’

Unfortunately, Kerri-Anne’s comments were broadcast when the program resumed for a news bulletin, leaving her colleagues shocked.

While she did not specify the radio station she was working at, Kerri-Anne said the gaffe had cost her employer, John Singleton, ‘quite a bit of money’.

However, she defended herself by saying her defamatory remarks about the unidentified journalist were ‘true’.

These days, she ‘doesn’t care’ about making mistakes.

‘Like I’ve always said, the only redeeming factor with being old is you don’t give a toss,’ she said. 

It comes after Kerri-Anne rolled out the red carpet for herself on Studio 10 last week in a parody of her glamorous work-from-home ensemble. 

As her Studio 10 co-hosts revealed their comfy outfits, the glamorous blonde arrived on set in the gold Alex Perry gown she’d worn to the 2011 Logies.

She declared: ‘This is my loungewear, because one has to keep one’s standards up!’