Oh, Tim. How we cringed as your girlfriend called you ‘daddy’. But the REAL story is what your ex-wife was doing last weekend… and the worrying whispers from your radio friends: AMANDA GOFF

Oh, Tim Blackwell. As if you needed to give me more material!

Honestly, I was going to spend Father’s Day sipping my latte in peace, enjoying a day off from skewering the tone-deaf and try-hard socialites, but then I saw it…

…and I nearly spat my coffee out as I dry-retched.

I’m referring, of course, to that Instagram post by your younger girlfriend Lizzie Baxter – featuring the three kids you share with your ex-wife Monique, and capped off with a caption that still makes me cringe as I type this.

‘Happy Father’s Day to our daddy! Because I’m young enough to be your daughter too!!’ Good lord.

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Lizzie Baxter, the younger girlfriend of Nova radio host Tim Blackwell, irked me with this Father’s Day post calling her partner ‘daddy’. How could she be so tone-deaf?

Lizzie (left) looks to be leaning into the discourse surrounding the couple’s age gap

I hate recycling material but you’ve earned yourself column No. 3, Tim. I was polite the first time, showed teeth the second – now I’m done pulling punches.

So, where do I even begin? Let’s start with something I know well: basic grammar.

Lizzie – you may be young, but you’re still 28. Learn how to use capital letters.

As for the actual content of your post, you’ve committed three sins. One, you plastered your boyfriend’s kids over social media. Two, you called your partner ‘daddy’. And three, you reminded the world you’re young enough to be his daughter.

Pass the bucket.

Now, Tim, it’s your turn. Did you really expect no one would pick up on it? Surely there was a moment to gently say, ‘You know what, darl, I reckon that’s not a great idea…’ That’s the kind of wisdom that’s meant to come with age, isn’t it?

And as a man with plenty of experience in the public eye, surely you would’ve been aware that some of your listeners on Nova wouldn’t be too impressed either?

I’ll spare you the worst of them, but this one sums it up fairly well: ‘Yuck.’

Tim and Lizzie went public at the ARIA Awards in November 2024 (left). He and ex-wife Monique (together right, in 2021) announced the end of their marriage in December 2023

Surely I wasn’t the only one wondering what your radio peers were thinking – especially with rumours swirling that you and drive-time co-host Ricki-Lee Coulter are headed for Sydney breakfast next year.

‘Nova management would not be pleased,’ was how one industry insider put it to me.

‘Nova’s female target audience would definitely not like it. Not great for the brand.’

He does, however, have at least one supporter in the industry. On Tuesday, Kyle Sandilands came out to bat for him, saying he saw nothing wrong with the ‘daddy’ post – ‘it’s kind of hot’ – and putting the trolls on blast for their ‘unnecessary bullying’.

Fair enough. And with Kyle’s defence in mind, let’s clear something up here. Yes, there is an age gap, but it’s not that big.

Tim, 42, is not really old enough to be Lizzie’s dad – unless he became a father while still scrubbing his spots with Clearasil – and their romance began after his separation.

And as for Lizzie’s post, I expect she believed her caption was nothing more than an inside joke, or a swipe at the ‘haters’.

But the problem is, Lizzie, it wasn’t half as funny or cute as you thought it was. Had it been a selfie of the two of you, then sure, fine – I probably would have laughed along.

Involving his children from his first marriage and posting it on Father’s Day – of all days! – is what left a sour taste in our mouths. I’m not the only woman thinking this.

I know the word ‘daddy’ is in vogue right now – thanks, in part, to the podcast Call Her Daddy that Gen Z and Millennial women worship like the second coming.

But, at the end of the day, it’s a term with grubby connotations. A caption like that shouldn’t be within a country mile of the photo that you posted. In that context, it felt cheap and, honestly, a little disrespectful to the mother of those children.

(Also, can we all agree on this? Father’s Day is not the time for girlfriends to insert themselves into family moments publicly. Thank you!)

I expect she believed her caption was nothing more than an inside joke, or a swipe at the ‘haters’. But the problem is, Lizzie, it wasn’t half as funny or cute as you thought it was

Lizzie, I know you’re young – as you reminded us – but here’s some advice for you from an old duck: If you’re going to be a stepmum, you need to understand the hierarchy.

Mum’s wishes always come first. Did you ask her permission to post that? I mean, it’s quite possible you did and Monique was totally on board… but I feel that’s unlikely.

Speaking of which, let’s shift the spotlight to Tim’s ex-wife – because there’s a side to this story that’s flown under the radar, and frankly, I find it far more compelling.

Cast your mind back: it was former-publicist-turned-yogi Monique – not Tim – who announced the end of the couple’s 14-year marriage back in December 2023.

His relationship with Lizzie, then a content producer for Fitzy & Wippa, would begin later.

I was genuinely thrilled to see Monique find love again after Tim and Lizzie went public – and I applauded her choice. Her new partner, Liam Walsh, former chief of Facebook ANZ, is not only accomplished but also quite the silver fox.

Surely I wasn’t the only midlife woman secretly cheering for Monique? Not only had she risen from the ashes of a very public split – replaced, no less, by a younger lookalike – but she did it with undeniable style and grace.

I’ve said it a million times before and will say it again: living well is the best revenge.

Which brings us to the kicker.

Because while Lizzie was posting tone-deaf tributes with someone else’s kids, Monique was shacked up with a daddy of her own – although she is far too classy to utter those words herself.

She spent her Father’s Day weekend with Liam in Thirroul, on the NSW South Coast, checking into a posh Airbnb and going to a concert together.

Her posts from the trip radiated that sort of mature calm and genuine warmth that make single women in their forties quietly ache with envy.

While Lizzie was posting tone-deaf tributes with someone else’s kids, Tim’s ex Monique was shacked up with a daddy of her own – though she’s far too classy to use those words herself

She spent her Father’s Day weekend with her new boyfriend, Liam Walsh, in Thirroul, on the NSW South Coast, checking into a posh Airbnb and going to a concert together

And that’s exactly what makes it so delicious: the jarring contrast between social media cringe and the quiet glow of grown-up happiness.

So yes, Tim, I am, once again, the bearer of bad news. We all cringed! Not because you’ve moved on (that’s fine), not even because of the 15-year age gap (hardly scandalous), but because your girlfriend chose Father’s Day to remind the world she’s technically young enough to be your daughter.

Meanwhile, those of us who follow Monique on Instagram saw she’s already won – with no attention-seeking theatrics.

You can be ‘daddy’ at home, but we both know who the grown-up is in this split.