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Ten has pulled the plug on The Circle and cut Breakfast by half an hour. The gap left by The Circle will be mainly filled with Us content.

The Circle will end on Friday. Ten boss James Warburton said the decision was for financial reasons.

Breakfast launched in February but has struggled to find an audience against the much longer established Sunrise on Seven and Nine’s Today. It will now run from 6am to 8.30am rather than to 9am. Children’s show Wurrawhy will then air at 8.30am.

Axed: Gorgi Coghlan and Stynes

The Circle launched in February 2010. Original co-host Chrissie Swan departed late last year and the show was weakened after host Yumi Stynes faced a backlash in response to comments she made about war hero Ben Roberts-Smith. The Cricle runs behind Seven’s The Morning Show and Nine’s Mornings.

A spokesman for Ten said there would...

The Circle host Yumi Stynes has apologised for mocking a war hero on television. The Australian TV star caused outrage when she appeared to mock Australian Victoria Cross medal recipient Ben Roberts-Smith on the Channel Ten chatshow earlier this week. As viewers were shown a photograph of Roberts-Smith in a pool, Stynes said: "He's going to dive down to the bottom of the pool to see if his brain is there." Presenter George Negus then questioned whether the soldier was "up to it in the sack", while a voice off-camera described Roberts-Smith as "bloodthirsty". The Circle co-host Gorgi Coghlan countered that she found Roberts-Smith very attractive, adding: "He's fighting the Taliban, he's got it all in my opinion. I think he'd be highly intelligent, he looks like a wonderful father, a dad...'' (more)...

Gorgi Coghlan has revealed that she likes her "cushiony" body. The Australian television personality, who is best known for her presenting role on daytime chatshow The Circle, said that she doesn't "care" that her body is not in the shape it was before giving birth to daughter Molly-Rose four months ago. Coghlan told the Herald Sun: "Having the right body, having the tan done, and even waxing the legs, it's just out the window. It's very, very low down the list of priorities... I think as a new mum you have to be really gentle to yourself. "This year, more (more)...