Gladys shuts down question about her 'lovers' on Kyle and Jackie O

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian shut down a question about her personal life during an interview on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Friday.

After discussing vaccine hesitancy, Victoria’s response to the Covid pandemic and the NSW paramedics strike, radio host Kyle Sandilands couldn’t resist asking Ms Berejiklian if she’d ‘taken another lover’ recently.

The 50-year-old politician is believed to be single following her split from disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire, who was the subject of a corruption inquiry last year.

‘By the way, have you taken another lover yet? What’s happening in that department?’ Sandilands said.

Ms Berejiklian bristled at the question and said: ‘Oh, please…’

She then asked Sandilands’ co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson: ‘Is he always like this with all the guests? Or just with me?’

‘Can we just move on to matters of state now?’ she added. ‘We only have a third of the nation living in New South Wales.’

Ms Berejiklian, who has a reputation for being ‘married to the job’, hasn’t publicly dated anyone since breaking up with former Wagga Wagga MP Maguire.

Their romantic history was exposed in October when Gladys admitted during an ICAC inquiry that she’d been in a secret relationship with Maguire while he was in office.

At the time, Maguire was at the centre of a corruption probe amid claims he’d used his position for personal gain.

While some feared her five-year entanglement with the shamed ex-MP would derail her political career, Gladys emerged from the scandal relatively unscathed.

Indeed, many women felt sorry for her and argued she shouldn’t have been held accountable for the misdeeds of her ex-partner.