Matthew Simmonds

Line Up Producer for @sunriseon7 | Talk to me about TV and coffee | 📧 at [email protected] | Opinions are my own.

[Matthew Simmonds @MattieSimmo]

I’m excited to share that I have stepped into a new role as Sunrise & Weekend Sunrise Line Up Producer.

This position brings me across both @sunriseon7 teams, helping to structure each show, make key editorial decisions, and respond to the fast-moving news pace of the day. (1/3)

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@ayeejuju “Oh that’s so nice of a boss to say-… oh”

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@Kittydhdc Looks more like a ‘take 2’ or ‘clip 2’ rather than a different variant.

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@RisesLikeFlames It’s Jerri and Rob fr

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@TVInsider Copping lashings from your mentor 😭😭 I can’t

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The GG is a bloody legend.

[AFL @AFL]

Governor-General of Australia Sam Mostyn AC is heading down the slide for Fight MND Big Freeze 12 🧊

Tune in on Monday June 8 to see her take the icy plunge.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The Menu (2022)

[SurvivorQuotesX @SurvivorQuotesX]

Jeff Probst talks to @Variety about Survivor and prediction market spoilers. Glad to see it addressed.

#Survivor

https://t.co/fBwIW1AKie

[Rob Cesternino 🛎 @robcesternino]

Jeff with a great take!!!!

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Finally this is getting coverage after insider information has been leaking for years

[Variety @Variety]

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Probst slams prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket for allowing users to make trades about who won “Survivor” 50, saying that the companies are “incentivizing people to lie, cheat and steal to get ahead.”

“They have figured out a way to capitalize on [the show],” he tells Variety. “It doesn’t sit well with me as a human. I get it — they built a great business. They don’t care. I’m not happy about it.”

“Clearly, if 90% of the people are voting for somebody, there’s a leak. But to look at us, the producers, as though we have a problem, is the mirror pointing in the wrong direction,” he says. “[Prediction market platforms] are the ones with the problem, not us. We went and made our show in a vacuum, and we keep it very tightly contained, but if you are foolish and naive enough to not think that somebody might leak it, that’s your problem.”

https://t.co/eNfFoauDe9

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@ParvatiWonHvV Oh please

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@_amanidasani Truly the only thing I wasn’t accidentally spoiled on and even Jeff ruined that

[Vulture @vulture]

Give Jeff Probst this: His live flub provided the one moment of genuine surprise in an otherwise predictable finale. https://t.co/iU00Bs4dUH

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@robertjdenault Sometimes I check reddit and know the winner. Some seasons I avoid the reddit, and I can still never know the winner until it’s aired.
But this season, despite avoiding the reddit, places like Kalshi made the spoiler too public, with ads and open discourse. That’s a problem!

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@RingoJake41 1000%. It also hurts prediction polls, because everyone who knows the outcome votes for the spoiled winner so even those aren’t genuine prediction polls.
It all just sucks overall. I don’t know why their NDA’s aren’t more airtight, it’s been happening for years.

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@realitytvxfan This tweet seems funny and unlikely at first but just an hour later Jeff Probst spoils the f4 fire result so now it’s totally believable 😭😭

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@wyattmetzger99 If Jeff made the mistake, does he lose his job?

[Wyatt @wyattmetzger99]

As someone who missed the Will Smith slap live, this was the wildest live TV moment I’ve ever seen. RIP to whoever just lost their job #Survivor50

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Happy for Aubry to finally take home a win. She deserved it. But oh my god Jeff ruining the live finale by spoiling the fire result… This is why you just do a normal live reunion and not pepper in chats throughout the show.
#Survivor50
Was it really in the hands of the fans?

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@Survivordle At this point I’m just guessing ages, and I can’t believe I’ve only played this three times and got age right twice…
I was back and forth on placement this time too

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@SORRYIMACANCER Mans played 153 days and was immediately called back to do back-to-back seasons and he just said “yeah sure”