Jacki MacDonald

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Jacki MacDonald, born November 26, 1954 (real name, Jenine) in Brisbane, Queensland, is an Australian television presenter.

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Popular in her home state of Queensland, Jacki appeared on a number of local programs in the 1970s including her own show on BTQ-7 and then a daily breakfast program The Jacki Mac Show on TVQ-0.

In 1978 she was Nine Network's replacement for Daryl Somers and Ossie Ostrich (which is nothing else than a large ostrich puppet) when the pair defected to 0-10. On their return to Nine later in the year, she was asked to join them as co-presenter of Hey Hey It's Saturday, a role which she continued for a decade.

She was also presenter of TVQ-0's Eyewitness News bulletins in the 1980s, which made her one of the few presenters to appear for two different networks at the same time (in her case, the Nine and Ten networks).

During the 1970s and 1980s Jacki won several TV Week Logie Awards for Most Popular Female Personality in Queensland.

In 1984, Jacki teamed up with Ossie Ostrich to host The Ossie Ostrich Video Show, a national weekday children's program on Nine.

Jacki kept out of the spotlight following her departure from Hey Hey in 1988. She returned to television in 1991 to host Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, and in 1992 former Hey Hey It's Saturday producer Gavan Disney approached her to co-host his new TV program Healthy Wealthy And Wise which was being produced for Network Ten. Jacki continued with the new program for a couple of years before leaving television altogether.

Her most recent TV appearance was on the 2005 Network Ten special Seriously 40, which commemorated 40 years of Network Ten. Since then, she disappeared from our screens.

Jacki's sister Fiona MacDonald is also a former television presenter; she was on local television in Queensland before going onto national programs such as Wombat and the Australian version of It's a Knockout.

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• Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (1991) TV Series .... Herself - Host
• Hey Hey It's Saturday

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