Georgie Gardner

Georgie Gardner is a "Today Show" newsreader and "Today Show" fill in presenter.

She joined the Nine Network in 2002 to present weather on National Nine News Sydney and to present afternoon updates. In 2005, National Nine News added a semi-national news bulletin at nowrap|4:30 pm, for which Gardner was the original host.

Gardner 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-anchor 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 the position for 2 years before acting as a fill-in presenter for Seven News and Sky News Australia.

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

In 2006, Gardner replaced Leila McKinnon as presenter of the Morning Edition of National Nine News. In December 2006 she replaced Sharyn Ghidella as newsreader on the "Today Show", as Ghidella had resigned and moved to the Seven Network to present Seven News in Brisbane. On Monday 6 August 2007, Gardner returned to the "Today Show" after 6 months 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, a friend from Perth.

Georgie is a happy mother of two children Bronte (born in 2005) and Angus (born in 2007), she is currently living with her husband Tim in Sydney.

References

* [http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=450463 "Today" profile]

External links

* [http://www.today.ninemsn.com.au "Today" Show website]
* [http://www.news.ninemsn.com.au "National Nine News" website]