Veteran Anchor Clint Stanaway Bids Emotional Farewell to Channel Nine

On November 17, 2025, veteran Channel Nine presenter Clint Stanaway officially concluded his decades-long career with the network. Instead of a standard sign-off, Stanaway was given an elaborate, two-hour celebration filled with tributes, flashbacks, and jokes from his colleagues across the country.

Almost every presenter who had worked with Stanaway over the years appeared in pre-recorded messages, praising the 42-year-old as the "heart and soul of the newsroom." The endless praise even left Stanaway feeling uncomfortable at times, with the presenter at one point insisting, "I am not dying."

However, while Channel Nine went all-out to bid farewell to Stanaway, the network handled the departure of another long-time colleague, Amber Sherlock, very differently. Sherlock was let go late last week as part of Nine's latest cost-cutting drive, with her exit kept so quiet that viewers only realized she was gone when she abruptly vanished from the November 11 bulletin.

Sherlock's departure was acknowledged just once on air, when Georgie Gardner briefly wished her well and referred to her as a "valued member" of the news team. The 49-year-old presenter, who had been with Nine since 2007, is one of dozens of staffers axed as the network enacts its latest, brutal round of redundancies.