Edwina Bartholomew

Edwina Bartholomew (born 5 July 1983) is an Australian journalist and television presenter.

Bartholomew is currently weather presenter on Sunrise and co-host of the 2013 season of Dancing with the Stars.

Career

Bartholomew completed her journalism degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst and also completed a Masters of International Studies in 2006 at Sydney University. She won a Sunrise Intern competition where she went from making coffee to producing the show.^[1]

Edwina also worked as a reporter on 2GB and covered the Beijing Olympics for the Seven Network.

She later returned to Australia and continued to work as a reporter for Seven News before signing on as Sunrise's Sydney correspondent in 2011 replacing Simon Reeve. She has also filed stories for Sunday Night. Her stories with Sunrise and The Morning Show have taken her from the Queensland floods and Christchurch Earthquake to the Camel Cup in Alice Springs and Tamworth Country Music Festival.

In July 2013, Bartholomew was appointed as weather presenter on Sunrise replacing Grant Denyer. She now travels for the show each day reporting from various locations around Australia and the world. ^[2]

In September 2013, Edwina was appointed co-host of Dancing with the Stars. ^[3]

Personal life

Bartholomew was born in the mining town of Whyalla in South Australia and spent her early years living in Japan and Malaysia.^[4]

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