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In an exclusive interview with Stellar, the Living Black host, who was married to fellow journalist Stan Grant for 16 years before their divorce in 2000, said the unlikely pair had a lot more in common than what people would think.
鈥淚 was taken by surprise myself,鈥 she said, of her relationship with Sultan.
鈥淓ven though we鈥檙e very different 鈥 I鈥檓 a serious, Walkley Award-winning journalist, and he鈥檚 from Married At First Sight, so we couldn鈥檛 be more worlds apart 鈥 we just have a lot of things in common.
鈥淲e love travelling, we love going to the movies, we love theatre. There鈥檚 a lot of things that we have in common that probably people on the outside don鈥檛 really appreciate.鈥
The pair first met at an event in 2021. Sultan, who was on the 2018 season of the popular dating reality television series, confirmed their romance on Instagram in January of this year.
鈥淭he saying is timing is everything? Well, the universe has delivered a beautiful, smart and an intelligent woman and I鈥檓 excited,鈥 Sultan wrote.
In the comments, the 56-year-old noted how beautiful Grant was and that he was 鈥減unching鈥.
Grant told Stellar she watches Married At First Sight every year with her daughter Lowanna and son John (who she co-parents with her ex-husband, along with their youngest son Dylan).
鈥淪o of course I was well aware of who Nasser was when he approached me,鈥 the 60-year-old said.
鈥淭hen we just keep on running into each other at different movie screenings and events and would have a chat.
鈥淗e kept on asking me out, but I was always so busy with work and travel. Finally, I said 鈥榶es.鈥欌
Listen to Rebecca Judd on a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below:
As NAIDOC Week begins, Grant also spoke to Stellar about how a torrent of malicious attacks and online abuse directed at Stan in the lead up to his 2023 resignation from the ABC took a wider personal toll.
鈥淭he filthy, racist remarks online that he faced on Twitter and in social media really did
affect the family,鈥 she said.
鈥淥ne of the boys, he got threats as well. It was a pretty awful time. I hope no one ever has to go through that sort of thing ever again.
鈥淪tan and all of us as First Nations journalists are only there telling the truth. We鈥檙e truth seekers.鈥
Listen to Rebecca Judd on a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below:
Read the full interview with Karla Grant and see the shoot inside today鈥檚 Stellar, via The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland) and Sunday Mail (SA).
For more from Stellar and the podcast, Something To Talk About, click here.