Red lights on radio star Meshel Laurie's CV Meshel Laurie plans to write a book about her experiences as a brothel receptionist. BREAKFAST radio star Meshel Laurie has opened up about her former life as a brothel receptionist. I loved it," Laurie, who co-hosts on Nova FM with Tommy Little, told Confidential. If it was still there, and the girls were still there, I'd probably try to pull one shift a week now, just to hang out with them again because it was so much fun. Laurie worked at the transsexual brothel in Port Melbourne for three years. The broadcaster and comedian recalled her experience in a confessional live show which toured the country. It made me very broad minded, to the point where very little shocked me, and I didn't judge people as I used to. You see a lot of different sides of people, and you learn nice people can be into freaky stuff, and that's OK. Laurie, a receptionist from 1997 to 2000, plans to write a book about those times. Meanwhile, Laurie has clocked up 10 years at dmg radio, doing a breakfast show in Brisbane and a national drivetime shift before returning to mornings with Little. Laurie and Little replaced Nova's top-rating Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek, who quit their long-running breakfast show last year. Hughes has rebooted his stand up career with a national tour and will occasionally call into his old radio show from the road. But Laurie says she is up to the challenge, and competition, of breakfast radio. "I'm loving it," Laurie, a mother of four-year-old twins, said. I'm not feeling any more or less pressure than I have in the past. And she and Little won't do fake personalities on airfor the airwaves. We're allowed to be ourselves. There is no strategy or whiteboard with our roles written on it, where I'm the old mum from Altona, and he's the hot young inner-city guy. We'll show up and be whoever we are.