Jason hawkins labrat

After finishing school he volunteered at Triple M Brisbane. His big break came when he didn’t cue the ads correctly. Kyle Sandilands who was on air at the time, yelled at him asking what they pay him for. When Labby responded ‘they don’t pay me’, Kyle demanded he get paid, from then on the Labrat became an official employee of the Austereo Network. The rest, as they say, is history!

He scored a promotion, and became the night producer on MMM Brisbane, then Kyle poached him, bringing him down to Sydney to become the new “Hot 30 Stunt Guy”.

During his time on the Hot 30 Countdown he broke into Britney’s hotel room, was thrown from a moving van by R.E.M, stalked Tom and Nicole on Sydney Harbour in the dark on a jetski, was almost arrested for storming the stage of Big Brother, thrown out of a plane, and shot in the chest.  Safer opportunities called, moving him across the country to 92.9 in Perth for two years hosting the drive timeslot.

In 2004 Labby moved back to Sydney to co-host the Hot 30 Countdown, the highest rating nightly coun

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