Liz Hayes has joined 60 Minutes rival Spotlight as a guest correspondent, signing on with Seven’s flagship current affairs show less than three months after making a confusing exit from Nine.

Hayes’ first story for Spotlight will be an interview with marketing executive Lauren Zonfrillo (previously known as Lauren Fried), the widow of celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo, set to air in the coming weeks.

Seven will be hoping for a ratings triumph, as Spotlight looks to erase its tumultuous 2024 from the collective memory banks.

Liz Hayes in her 60 Minutes days

Ratings-wise, it’s doing well. Spotlight’s first two episodes for 2025 have been relative successes for the network.

According to VOZ ratings figures, the season opener, on March 23, drew an average audience of 637,000 — albeit against a MAFS average audience of 1.84 million over on Nine — and managed to beat its own audience numbers for 2024’s season opener by 11%. 60 Minutes drew an average of 935,000 for Nine earlier that same evening.

The most recent Spotlight episode, an April 6 exposé into electric vehicles, achieved a larger national average audience on the night than 60 Minutes, creeping ahead of its........

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