Radio star Mitch Churi has unveiled his new venture, eight months after being let go by ARN’s KIIS FM.
Churi had been with KIIS for nearly a decade, first joining at the age of 19 as a barista for ARN’s most popular hosts, Kyle Sandilands and Jacki ‘O’ Henderson. In 2019, he began hosting national weeknight program The Night Show, and in 2023, he joined Laura Byrne and Brittany Hockley on afternoon show The Pick Up.
In late 2024, Churi was told his two roles would not be returning in 2025.
“I just want to say that it wasn’t my decision,” Churi said at the time. “It wasn’t my call. I really wanted to stay on this show with the two of you [Byrne and Hockley], and I wanted to stay on The Night Show and I wanted to stay at ARN and KIIS.”
Eight months later, and after a couple of projects including a LinkedIn marketing campaign and a plum hosting gig on Nova, he has taken to social media to share his new venture: “The Mitch Churi Chat Show”.
“It’s been eight months since i was very publicly fired from what i thought was my dream job… And I’m finally read to tell you that I have a brand new show,” he said in the post.
“The last couple of months have been really hard for me, at times, to lose a job that was so much of what I thought was Mitch, that made up so much of my identity, was really hard, harder than I thought it was going to be to deattach [sic] from that person that I was and that job that I had from 19-years-old to 29-years-old.
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“I’ve only had one idea since I left, and this is the idea… It is the most exciting thing I’ve ever worked on, I’ve never felt more excited or fulfilled.”
He described The Mitch Churi Chat Show as “Call Her Daddy meets Graham Norton, but with me and some very, very familiar names and faces”.
Over the coming weeks, Churi said he will share the process of building a chat show on his social media, before officially launching in due course.