Today host Karl Stefanovic reveals his plan to beat the coronavirus toilet roll shortage after discovering he’s only ‘got three left’
As coronavirus panic buying causes supermarkets to run out of toilet paper, Karl Stefanovic has revealed his plan to beat the shortage.
The 45-year-old Today host is down his last three rolls and, after struggling to find any more in stores, has had to find an alternative solution: a bidet.
He told Hit105’s Stav, Abby and Matt on Thursday: ‘I’m looking into getting one of those fancy bidet things on the inter-web.’
Low times! Karl Stefanovic (pictured) revealed he is down his final three toilet rolls, and after struggling to find any in stores – he’s had to look at finding an alternative solution
‘They’re really expensive now. They’re like $350 to $400, which to me is a lot of money,’ he added.
Despite reporting on the issue for months, Karl had ‘refused’ to believe panic buying was an issue until he discovered there wasn’t any toilet roll at his local supermarket.
Radio host Abby Coleman suggested that Karl could just take a shower after using the toilet instead of installing a bidet.
Genius? Speaking on Hit105’s Stav, Abby and Matt on Thursday, Karl said: ‘I’m looking into getting one of those fancy bidet things on the inter-web
To which he replied: ‘I don’t want to have no gap between what’s coming out and my hand, to me it’s truly off.’
Karl continued: ‘It used to happen in Bali when I was doing stories over there all the time. You go to the loo and there was a bucket near the toilet. And I was like, ”that is bloody filthy”.
It comes after Karl revealed the devastating factors, the recent COVID-19 outbreak has had on his family on Thursday’s episode of the Today show.
In denial: Karl admitted while he’s regularly reported about other people running out of the essential household item for months, he ‘refused to believe it was an issue’. Pictured with his wife Jasmine Yarbrough
During a segment about mental health amid the cornonvirus pandemic, the breakfast host said his 70-year-old mother Jenny was ‘terribly anxious’ about the infectious disease.
Karl also discussed how she wouldn’t get to meet his newborn baby when the TV star’s wife Jasmine Yarbrough gives birth in the next coming weeks.
He explained that he’s been constantly reassuring his mum, who is based in Queensland, that she will get to hold his baby daughter one day once everyone gets through the crisis.
Trying times: Last month, Karl revealed his heartache on Today over his mother not being able to meet his baby daughter due to coronavirus. He said interstate travel restrictions and hospital protocols mean Jenny will have to stay in Queensland and not head down to Sydney where he and Jasmine are based
Pandemic: As of Thursday morning, there are 4,862 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia, including 21 deaths