Source: MediaSpy and news.com.au
Plenty of speculation still surrounds the identity of the author of the novel Boned which is soon to hit bookshelves. Meanwhile, news.com.au has published an excerpt from the book which focuses on a fictional Kate Corish, an almost-40 news presenter who learns she is about to get the sack.
Heading the fictional Channel 8 network in the book is CEO Billy Simpson, bearing some resemblance to former Nine chief Eddie McGuire in his passion for football.
As to the identity of the author, even the book’s publisher Penguin claims to not know. Some of the names being speculated as possibilities include former high-profile TV identities Tracey Spicer, Gretel Killeen, Naomi Robson, Jana Wendt, Helen Dalley, as well as the presenter at the centre of the original ‘boned’ saga, Jessica Rowe. Back-stagers such as publicist Wendy Squires, Mia Freedman and David Hurley, all formerly of the Nine Network, are also on the rumoured list of possibilities.
All, and others, have denied being involved.
Current Nine CEO David Gyngell is looking forward to reading the book:
“If it’s good enough we might even make a mini-series of it, and maybe even call it UnderTelly.”




