Georgie Gardner
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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 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.
On Monday 6 August 2007, Gardner returned to the Today Show after 6 months maternity leave to present the news on a permanent basis, permanently replacing Sharyn Ghidella who resigned in December 2006 and moved to the Seven Network to present Seven News in Brisbane.
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 called Bronte (born in 2005) and Angus (born in 2007), she is currently living with her husband Tim in Sydney.
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| Preceded by Sharyn Ghidella |
Today Show Newsreader December 2006 - |
Succeeded by incumbent |
| Preceded by Alan Wilkie |
National Nine News Sydney Weather presenter 2002-2004 |
Succeeded by Jaynie Seal |
| Preceded by program re-started |
Sunrise female co-host 2000-2002 |
Succeeded by Melissa Doyle |
| Preceded by Leila McKinnon |
National Nine News Morning Edition presenter 2006 |
Succeeded by Mike Munro |
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