Georgie Gardner Biography
Georgie Gardner is an Australian media personality serving as a newsreader and reporter for 9News. She is one of the country’s best-known and most popular television presenters, anchoring Channel Nine’s 6 pm bulletin on Friday and Saturday nights. Previously, she co-hosted TODAY alongside Karl Stefanovic.
Georgie Gardner Age
Gardner is 53 years old as of 2023. She was born on June 1, 1970, in Perth, Western Australia.
Georgie Gardner Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall, approximately 1.68 m or 168 cm, and weighs around 51 kg.
Georgie Gardner Nationality
She holds an Australian nationality.
Georgie Gardner Education
Gardner attended Dalkeith Primary School and St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls in Perth. At the age of 17, she went to Milan, Italy to work as a nanny. Upon her return to Perth, Gardner studied journalism at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Gardner is very intelligent and 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.
Georgie Gardner Parents
Georgie was born in Perth, Western Australia and she is the daughter of Preston and Ruth. Her father Preston was a stockbroker. He died at the age of 52 from complications during oesophageal cancer surgery. Her maternal grandfather was Robert Rowell, an accountant by trade in Perth who became a stock, station, and shipping agent in the Kimberley from 1938 to 1970.
Georgie has two siblings, Katie and John. When she was 5, her parents divorced and subsequently remarried. Her mother remarried the son of the state’s governor and a well-known lawyer and Georgie has half-siblings by her mother, Beth, and David, and a half-brother, Richard, by her father.
Georgie Gardner Husband
Is Georgie Gardner married? Georgie is married to Tim Baker, an investment banker and fellow Perth native. The couple first met when Georgie just so happened to attend a friend’s birthday party at a Sydney pub, the friend just so happened to be Tim’s friend too.
“It was just, it was effortless,” she said.
Georgie recalled being 31 or 32 years old when she met her soulmate, a time when she was “looking to find [her] life partner.” Four months into their relationship, Tim dropped to one knee and asked Georgie for her hand in marriage. They tied the knot in October 2002.
The pair welcomed two beautiful children together, Angus who celebrated his 16th birthday in January 2023, and Bronte who recently graduated high school.
Georgie Gardner Nine News Australia
Georgie is a newsreader and reporter for 9News. She is one of the country’s best-known and most popular television presenters, anchoring Channel Nine’s 6 pm bulletin on Friday and Saturday nights, and guest host and regular contributor for Today Extra before taking on the TODAY hosting role with Karl Stefanovic in January 2018.
For seven years from 2007 to 2014, Georgie was part of Nine’s hugely popular breakfast show, TODAY, as their News Presenter and fill-in host, covering everything from natural disasters to politics along with an array of world events. After completing high school, Georgie spent nearly two years living in Milan where she learned Italian and traveled extensively while nannying for an Italian family.
In 1992, Georgie moved to Newcastle in New South Wales to take up a cadetship at Radio 2NX where she reported, wrote, and read the news. In her debut year, she was rewarded with radio’s highest award – a RAWARD as Australia’s Best Newcomer to metropolitan radio. She moved to Sydney’s 2DAY FM newsroom in 1994, spending three years as the drive-time newsreader before joining the Ten Network as a television news reporter and fill-in presenter in 1997.
In 1998, Georgie moved to the Seven Network to read the Late News. She went on to co-host the network’s early morning Sunrise program for two years.
She is passionate about charities relating to young people and is an ambassador for Red Kite, Literacy Planet, and School for Life.
Georgie Gardner Salary
She earns an annual salary of $300,000 for her roles at Nine News.
Georgie Gardner Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million as of 2023 which she has mainly accumulated from her journalism career.
