Cassandra Thorburn breaks her silence on 'Fizzy' number plate saga

Cassandra Thorburn has offered a frankly bizarre excuse for why her new Mini Cooper S has the personalised number plate 'Fizzy'.

'Fizzy' is the well-known nickname of Jasmine Yarbrough, the former model her ex-husband Karl Stefanovic married in Mexico last December.

Speaking to The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Tuesday morning, Cassandra insisted the whole affair was just one big coincidence.

'I didn't know [Fizzy] was her nickname,' Cassandra said at the start of the interview. 'It's not common knowledge is it? Apparently it is now!'

Radio host Kyle Sandilands then asked: 'So what, it's a coincidence that you got the "Fizzy" number plate?' 

'No, no, it's not a coincidence!' Cassandra responded. 'The car, I purchased from my girlfriend, who was moving overseas for a couple of years.

'She offered me to buy her car, which has had the same number plate for four years and she actually owned the number plate on her previous car.

'And she asked me if I wanted to buy her car, and I said yes. And she said, "I also want to keep the private plates" because it has something to do with her and another member of her family. I don't know, people do that with private plates.

'And she said, "Can you hold onto it [the plates]?" And she actually still pays for the private plates. I've had the car since February and organised to buy it late last year.'

Kyle asked: 'So it's nothing to do with Karl and the new wife?'

'No, nothing to do with it at all! It's simply the number plate a friend actually has had since 2015 on this car,' Cassandra explained.

'Are you sure you didn't know it was [Jasmine's] nickname and then approached the friend to buy the car for the number plate?' Kyle asked again.

Cassandra denied this, saying she would never do something like that.