Australian radio station Nova FM’s breakfast duo Fitzy and Wippa tell woman her husband’s email address was registered with website for casual affairs

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Radio listeners have responded with anger after a Sydney woman was told live on air that her husband was registered with the Ashley Madison website for casual affairs.

Breakfast radio hosts Fitzy and Wippa put a call out on Thursday morning for any female listeners who suspected their partner might be cheating.

The Nova FM hosts offered to find out if the suspected person was registered with Ashley Madison by checking their email address against the data released by hackers this week.

Jo* from Blacktown phoned in because of her “snippy” husband.

“When that little thing came on the news about the Ashley Madison hack, he sort of went a bit funny,” Jo said. “I asked him straight out. He said, ‘Don’t be stupid. We’re married, we’ve got two kids.’”

She said his work hours had changed, he now kept his phone close by him and he could not account for some money. Jo gave her husband’s details to the radio program.





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“We’re putting him into this website right now and his details have revealed that he’s actually on the website, Jo,” said radio host Fitzy.

“Are you serious?” Jo asked. “Are you freaking kidding me?”

“Yeah, no ...” stammered Fitzy.

“These websites are disgusting,” Jo said before hanging up.

Listeners took to Twitter to voice their outrage at the stunt.

“I, for one, do not want to listen to you two destroy someone’s life on air. It’s not funny. It’s horrible,” tweeted The Sydney Rant.

Alexander Rose-Innes tweeted: “You guys are a shameless disgrace @fitzyandwippa ...” Ian Jankelowitz said: “Things not to do for ratings ... reveal to a woman live on air her husband has an @ashleymadison acct #fail @fitzyandwippa @novafm.”

After Jo hung up live on air, Wippa said: “Oh I don’t know if we should have done that. That hasn’t left me with a good feeling. I’m sorry that that happened, Jo. I feel a bit bad.”

Comment is being sought from Nova FM.

*Name has been changed