Jase & Lauren

Jase & Lauren is an Australian breakfast radio show hosted by Jason Hawkins and Lauren Phillips on Nova 100 in Melbourne.

The show airs from 6am to 9am on weekday mornings with music and daily topic discussions and special guests. A highlights package of the show, airs across the Nova Network on Saturday and Sunday from 8am and 10am.

A daily podcast featuring the best bits from each show is available on the Nova Player as is the podcast for all other Nova FM shows in Australia.

KIIS 1011
In July 2021, Australian Radio Network announced that Lauren Phillips would join co-host Jason 'Jase' Hawkins from 9 August 2021 on the KIIS 101.1 breakfast program. Hawkins had previously co-hosted with Polly 'PJ' Harding on the breakfast program Jase & PJ. Following the departure of Harding on July 23, 2021, the show was relaunched with Lauren Phillips.

On 30 July 2021, a one-hour pop-up show was heard on the air a week before the official launch. Jase and Lauren introduced new friends of the show. Clint Stanaway replaces Sacha Barbour Gatt as the show's newsreader, while Christian Petracca provided weekly contributions.

In December 2022, Alice James was announced as new executive producer of the program, replacing Luke James.

In November 2023, after months of media speculation, it was announced that The Kyle and Jackie O Show would be networked from KIIS 106.5 Sydney in 2024, effectively ending Jase & Lauren. The final show aired on Friday 1 December 2023.

Nova 100
In February 2024, Nova Entertainment announced that Jase & Lauren will host Nova 100’s new Melbourne breakfast show, replacing Ben, Liam & Belle who will move to a national drive show across the Nova Network. Their first show aired on 8 March 2024 with Brodie Pummeroy as executive producer.

Ben French and Jaz Keane returned to the team in April 2024 after departing non-compete island. Perri Cassie joined the team in June 2024 after also departing non-compete island Gold 104.3.

In May 2024, Nova announced that highlights from the weekly breakfast show will air across the Nova Network on Saturday and Sunday from 8 am - 10 am.

In July 2024, the show rose to number 2 in the Melbourne FM breakfast radio ratings. The show increased listener share by 0.9 points to 9.6, with a cumulative audience of 651,000.

During the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Clint Stanaway contributed remotely due to his role with Nine's Olympic reporting team, however was unable to discuss any Olympic content due to the station not holding official broadcasting rights.

Podcast
The show is available as a daily podcast featuring the best bits from each show. Bonus content is available to listeners with a post show podcast The Daily Wrap, discussing behind the scenes topics of the show with several producers and on air talent. It often includes adult humor and language. A Producers' Pod is recorded during the non-survey period by members of the production team.

In the episode released on 9 July 2024, the team revealed an interesting fact about themselves which nobody would know as a trap for the co-hosts. This would reveal if they had been listening to their show during the survey break. Jazz Keane revealed he can ride a unicycle, Perri Cassie had a successful career as a stand up comedian and Brodie Pummeroy can speed read. In the following episode Alison Munro is a keen scuba diver and was on the team who won the Outstanding Nature Documentary Emmy Award for the documentary Puff: Wonders of the Reef, Ben French was the voice of an animated hedgehog named Jacko for a television commercial in the United States.

Major Competitions
In June 2024, Jase & Lauren launched a hide & seek competition across Melbourne. The winner would receive $250,000 less $1 for every second they were not found. The competition was restricted to the hours of 6am to 6pm and the team stated they were not hiding in a school, hospital or private house. Clues were announced via radio and social media. The competition concluded on 17 July 2024 after 5 days. The team were found in a vacant office building in South Melbourne. The winners receiving a total of $84,323.

Segments

 * Overrated / Underrated: Each week, Jase & Lauren ask listeners what they consider to be overrated and underrated.

Past Segments

 * Tradie Trivia: Each morning, Jase & Lauren will pit the two players from different professions against each other when they challenge them to answer five general knowledge questions.
 * $5K Word Play: A word association game. The caller selects Jase, Lauren or Clint to play. If Jase, Lauren or Clint match 5 words specified by the caller from a range of topics the caller wins $5,000.

Team members
Jase and Lauren have two content producers, two audio producers and a digital producer.