Tony Squires is an Australian media personality, currently presenting the sport report on Seven News in Sydney. He is perhaps best known as the presenter of the comic sport news show The Fat, which ran on ABC television from 2000 to 2003.[1]
He grew up in Caves Beach, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, where he worked as a journalist for the Newcastle Morning Herald in the early 1980s.[1] In the 1990s he wrote a regular television review column in The Sydney Morning Herald.[2]
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In 2000, Squires began hosting sports show The Fat on ABC. He remained on the show until 2003, when it was axed.[1] In 2004, he joined Channel Seven to host a revamped and retitled sport show 110% Tony Squires, which only lasted one season.
In 2008, he joined Channel Ten to host Big Mouth, a panel show based around Big Brother.[3] The show also lasted one season, as Big Brother was axed after the 2008 series.
On 19 April 2010, Squires replaced Alex Cullen as weekday sports presenter on Seven News in Sydney.
Squires has also filled in for Larry Emdur and Andrew O'keefe on Weekend Sunrise.
Squires early work in radio involved writing news bulletins for the Sydney radio station 2SM, and SBS Radio station 2EA.[1]
In 2005, Squires and long-time colleague Rebecca Wilson (The Fat, Big Mouth) were hired by new radio station Vega 95.3 Sydney to co-host the drive-time program.[4] In 2007, Squires and Wilson were joined by Mikey Robins, but Wilson's retirement in September 2009 prompted Vega to stand down Squires and Robins a month later.[5]
In 2010, Squires joined Triple M hosting 'The Grapple' Sunday mornings from 8am alongside Andrew Johns and Mark Geyer.
In 2011, Squires hosts Triple M new rugby program called The Ruck on Sunday mornings from 9am alongside Tim Horan and Matt Burke.
Tony Squires released his book Cracking The Footy Codes: A beginner's guide to AFL, league, union and football in 2009.[6]
Squires married his girlfriend of two years, public relations executive Kate Pascoe, on 28 November 2008.[7] He had separated from his previous wife of twenty years, with whom he had two daughters, in 2006.[8]
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