Former ABC star set to take on huge new role at Channel Seven alongside veteran Mike Amor

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By A. JAMES FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 12:15 GMT, 17 January 2025 | Updated: 12:18 GMT, 17 January 2025

Former ABC star Karina Cavarlho is set to share the Channel Seven Melbourne weekend news desk with Mike Amor from Saturday.

The 44-year-old news veteran comes to the high profile gig after filling in for Peter Mitchell on the weekday news over the summer.

Karina made headlines in 2023 when she made a dramatic exit from the ABC after working at the national broadcaster for a whopping 17 years.

'You know you love your job when you have to work when everyone else is on holidays and you don't mind it,' she joked to the Herald Sun after Seven announced her new role on Friday.

The Sri Lankan-born beauty, who started at Seven in July, has been in Mitchell's chair on weekdays for the last five weeks.

'The whole team that was on over summer was really fun,' she gushed in her interview with the publication.

Former ABC star Karina Cavarlho is set to co-host Seven News Melbourne weekend bulletin from Saturday reports the Herald Sun. Pictured: Karina Cavalho 

The 44-year-old news veteran comes to the high profile gig after filling in on the weekday news over the summer. Pictured: Mike Amor

Elsewhere in the chat, Karina said enjoyed being back in Melbourne after being based there while she was working at ABC News Breakfast.

'I probably shouldn't mention the ABC but it's been so funny talking to some of my friends from there, because you don't actually realise that there's life after the ABC,' she joked.

She also shared that she has been enjoying the jaunts to prized sporting events like the Test cricket and the Australian Open over the summer holiday period. 

'Even on Boxing Day I read the 6pm news but during the day I popped into the cricket and it's just having the exposure to all of those different experiences,' she said.

It comes after Karina revealed in December 2023 that she had quit her job as the ABC News channel presenter after 17 years with the broadcaster.

She expressed her bittersweet sentiments about leaving the ABC at the time.

'The ABC will always have a special place in my heart' Karina said in her parting statement. 

'I've been able to meet and work with so many talented people,' she told The Australian ahead of her final bulletin' she continued. 

Karina made headlines in 2023 when she made a dramatic exit from the ABC after working at the national broadcaster for a whopping 17 years

'Now is the right time to venture into the next phase of my career and I'm excited to see what's around the corner. 

'I wish my colleagues at the ABC nothing but the best.' 

Karina's impressive career includes anchoring the ABC news program in Brisbane for five years. 

She also co-hosted ABC News Breakfast in Melbourne.

Her professional prowess has earned her respect and admiration from colleagues and viewers alike.

Karina had been at ABC's 24-hour TV news channel in Sydney when she elected to walk away.

Prompting the move, say sources, was that she had become disillusioned at many aspects of the ABC's culture.

She has become concerned about the ABC's editorial direction and that some fellow journalists have become 'activists', rather than being neutral in their reporting, the Australian reported.

Karina who was born in Sri Lanka and moved with her family to Perth when she was aged 4, has worked with the ABC across Australia.

She presented the 7pm news in both Perth and Brisbane and co-hosted ABC News Breakfast with Michael Rowland from Melbourne.

At the time of Karina's resignation Daily Mail Australia contacted her for comment. The ABC declined to comment. 

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