Georgie Gardner

Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner in 2008
Born	(1970-06-01) 1 June 1970 Perth, WA, Australia
Residence	Sydney
Education	Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Occupation	Journalist, News Presenter and TV Presenter
Employer	Nine Network
Spouse(s)	Tim Baker
Children	Bronte and Angus
Website
Official website

Georgie Gardner (born 1 June 1970) is an Australian journalist and television personality.

Gardner is currently news presenter on Today (Tuesday - Friday) as well as being a fill-in host. She is also the presenter of Nine News Sydney (Friday & Saturday) & Nine News First at Five (Saturday).

Career

Gardner joined the Nine Network in July 2002 to present weather on National Nine News in Sydney, and to present afternoon updates. In 2004, the Nine Network added a semi-national news bulletin at 4.30 pm, National Nine News Afternoon Edition, for which Gardner was the original presenter.

Georgie has formerly worked at Network Ten as a reporter and presenter for Ten News. Her most prominent national role came with the Seven Network as co-host for Seven News Sunrise where she presented with Mark Beretta before the program was changed from morning news to morning public affairs programming. She held this position for 2 years before acting as a fill-in presenter for Seven News and Sky News Australia.^[1]

She is the only Australian news presenter to have presented the late news bulletin on each commercial TV station, having filled in as presenter of the Ten Late News, full-time presenter of Seven Late News, and then as a substitute presenter of Nightline, the late night version of Nine News.

In 2006, Gardner replaced Leila McKinnon as presenter of National Nine News Morning Edition. In December 2006 she replaced Sharyn Ghidella as news presenter on Today, as Ghidella had resigned and moved to the Seven Network to present Seven News in Brisbane. Gardner returned to Today after 6 months maternity leave on Monday 6 August 2007, Allison Langdon filled the role whilst Georgie was on maternity leave.

On 3 October 2007, Gardner was unable to continue reading the news bulletins due to the death of former West Coast Eagles star Chris Mainwaring, whose wife Rani was a close friend of Gardner from Perth.^[2]

In July 2009, Gardner was appointed Nine News Sydney weekend presenter, she replaced Mark Ferguson as it was revealed that he had signed with the Seven Network.

Gardner received her media training through the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She has received multiple awards and accolades throughout her career and is known to be highly intellectual. She received outstanding results in all of her aptitude tests during her application to the Nine Network in 2002 including scoring 149 on her IQ test.

Personal life

Gardner is the mother of two children, Bronte who was born in 2005 and Angus born in 2007; she is currently living with her husband Tim Baker in Sydney. Georgie is a practicing Anglican.

References

External links

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• Today profile