Kate Fischer
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Born | 30 November 1973 Adelaide, South Australia |
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Other name(s) | Katie Fischer | ||||||
Occupation | Model, Television actor |
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Kate Fischer, aka Katie Fischer, (born on 30 November 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian model and actress. She attended the Canberra Girls' Grammar School, in Canberra.
She has appeared as one of the stars of the movie Sirens, and has also been in the movies The Real Thing and Foreigner. She is also known for having been engaged to wealthy businessman James Packer.
In 1997, a portrait of her was hung in the Archibald Prize by painter Paul William Newton, titled Kate and Barbie. She was host of Looney Tunes on the Nine Network in the mid-late 1990s.
In 2005 Fischer resurfaced on the Nine Network's Celebrity Overhaul, a show in which celebrities try to regain their fitness through good diet and exercise habits. In one episode, she showed she still has what it takes by pole-dancing.[citation needed]
In May 2006 Kate Fischer appeared as a guest judge on the SBS programme Song For The Socceroos [1] and as a contestant on the Channel 7 TV Show It Takes Two. [2]
She is the daughter of Pru Goward, currently a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
During 2005-2006, she was the face of the AMP group of shopping centres across Australia, before being dropped.
In late 2006, she became the host of a weekly Top 40 countdown clip show on Channel 7, a rival program to Channel 9's 20 to 1.