Here’s one that you won’t be hearing about on Nine Radio’s news rundown: the highly regarded executive producer behind the network’s popular 2GB morning show has spectacularly quit the program – just weeks after having a blistering bust-up with its new host, Mark Levy, and complaining about him to network management.

Diary can reveal Olivia Wilbury and Levy’s budding six-month partnership was all but left in tatters after they engaged in a scorching “frank and robust” exchange of views in front of stunned fellow staff members during a heated production meeting at the talkback station’s Pyrmont studios in Sydney.

We’re not sure what was said precisely (we’ve heard a couple of different versions, all of which have been enough to make even us blush), but it was certainly fiery enough that Levy felt the need to apologise afterwards … and Wilbury the need to take up the matter with the network’s national content director, Greg Byrnes.

So it must have been one hell of a stink.

After all, Wilbury is as tough as they come, and made a name for herself as a hard-hitting producer under Levy’s predecessor, Ray Hadley, before being hand-picked to run his show as executive producer for the final three years of his decades-long reign atop the radio ratings – and he’s no shrinking violet either.

Either way, word of the blow-up – and all but total breakdown of Levy and Wilbury’s work relationship – has spread like wildfire inside the talkback network in recent weeks amid mounting speculation that 2GB’s morning show simply wasn’t big enough to accommodate their duelling personalities.

In the end, Byrnes decided the best solution was to simply divide and conquer, and separate the two key staff members rather than risk losing either one of them; and offered Wilbury the “opportunity” to leave the morning show after seven successful years and trade places with host Michael McLaren’s executive producer on his afternoon program.

The fact she readily accepted the deal probably tells you just about everything you need to know about the simmering brouhaha … though Byrnesy, on a bit of a roll, bless him, wanted to have a crack at that one too.

“From next Monday, Olivia Wilbury will move into the EP role on Afternoons, with Jacob Pittolo to take on the EP role in Mornings,” he said while announcing the old switcheroo in an all-staff email last Tuesday. “This ‘job swap’ is part of our ongoing commitment to refresh and rejuvenate our production processes and on-air sound.”

Well, that’s definitely a unique explanation.

At least, there was a brief hint of the real underlying reasons for Wilbury’s redeployment at 2GB when Levy offered her a final farewell on-air on Friday.

“I just want to say a big thank you to Olivia Wilbury, who’s … going to work with McLaren on the afternoon program,” he told his listeners.

“Olivia, I said it to you privately, I’ll say it to you publicly as well – (she’s) one of the most intelligent women I think I’ve ever met, and certainly has a very strong opinion on a whole range of issues.

“I think her intelligence levels are better matched with Michael McLaren as opposed to me.”

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