Hugh Riminton Biography
Hugh Riminton is an Australian Journalist, Speaker, and Author. He is the National Affairs Editor at Network TEN. He is also an occasional presenter of 10 News First. Previously, he co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully until February 2017.
Hugh Riminton Age
Riminton is 62 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1961 in Sri Lanka.
Hugh Riminton Height
He is around 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Hugh Riminton Nationality
He is Australian by nationality.
Hugh Riminton Education
Riminton attended Christchurch Boys High School. He also graduated with a master’s degree from Macquarie University with a major work focusing on peacekeeping policy.
Hugh Riminton Parents
Hugh was born in Sri Lanka and he is the son of John and Jackie Riminton who were both British. His father John managed tea estates while his mother Jackie was a nurse, adventurer, librarian, and advocate for social justice.
Hugh and his family briefly migrated to the United Kingdom, then to New Zealand when he was five. Although his mother Jackie spent different parts of her life in Malta, London, Wales, and Sri Lanka, she found her true home on the South Island of New Zealand. Jackie spent the last years of her life in Church Bay, Christchurch, where she was an integral part of the Diamond Harbor community. She also worked as a nurse in London and later in Sri Lanka as part of the RAF Nursing Service.
When she arrived in Christchurch, she retrained to become a social worker. Later, she joined the Department of Social Welfare and advised the government on reforms related to the adoption law.
On February 13, 2021, Hugh lost his mother. He said that he would remember her primarily as a woman who loved art and theater. She also had passionate opinions and was determined to raise her four children per the edicts of her feminism wave.
Hugh Riminton Siblings
He has three brothers, Paul Riminton, Sean Riminton, and Adrian Riminton.
Hugh Riminton Wife
Hugh is currently married to Mary Lloyd, a landscape photographer and journalist. The couple were married in Cambodia in 2010 and they are parents to three kids Coco, 17, Jacob, 14, and Holly, 12. Hugh was a single father when he met his wife Mary Lloyd in early 2007 while working at CNN. In 2009, the family moved to Canberra, Australia, where their son Jacob was born. Their daughter Holly was born in 2011.
Previously, Hugh was married to Sue Perry, his first wife from the 1980s to 1992. Natasha Stott Despoja, a leader of the Australian Democrats (who served from 2001- 2002) was in a relationship with Hugh until 2001. The ex-couple had an unusual reunion in 2013 when they were both on the same panel for The Project coverage of that year’s federal election.
In 2004, Hugh moved to Hong Kong with Kumi Taguchi, a journalist, and they were briefly married. The ex-couple share a daughter, Coco, who is commonly known as Hugh’s first daughter.
Hugh Riminton Wife Cancer
Hugh’s wife Mary Lloyd battled breast cancer during Covid 19. Hugh had to isolate himself away from her so he could keep working while she underwent chemotherapy, which left her immune system acutely vulnerable to infection.
“The experience was hard on the entire family, but especially challenging for Hugh,” reveals Mary of her husband.
Stressing that her ordeal is something one in eight Australian women have to endure, Mary knows how fortunate she was to have such a supportive husband and three loving kids, Coco, Jacob, and Holly to help her through the worst of her battle.
In December 2021, Hugh revealed that his wife had beaten breast cancer in a moving post on Twitter.
“And my best news of the day..? My wife has quietly changed her twitter profile from ‘Aspiring Breast Cancer Survivor’, dropping the first word. Been a long road,” he wrote.
The national affairs editor at Channel 10 news added “Welcome back”, to his wife, fellow journalist Mary Lloyd.
Hugh Riminton 10 News First
Riminton is a national affairs editor and occasional presenter of 10 News First. He previously co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully until February 2017. Riminton began work as a cadet reporter aged 17 in Christchurch, before moving to Australia in 1983 to work for the Macquarie Radio Network in Perth and Melbourne. In 1989, Riminton joined the Australian Nine Network as a Melbourne-based general reporter. He became its London-based correspondent in 1991.
Riminton has reported from more than 40 countries, notably South Africa, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Middle East, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, South East Asia, East Timor, China, the United States and the Pacific Islands. He has also received several honors for his reporting work, including a Logie Award (1996) for coverage of Tahiti’s independence movement and a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 2000 Fijian coup d’état. He was also a Walkley Awards finalist for reportage in Papua New Guinea (1998), Kosovo (1999), Southern Sudan (1999) and Iraq (2003).
In 2001, he was appointed full-time presenter of the Nine Network’s national evening news program Nightline, where he remained until joining CNN in December 2004. From Sri Lanka, he reported and presented during CNN’s Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. He also reported extensively from Iraq, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and elsewhere during this time.
From January 2005 until September 2008, he co-anchored CNN Today with Kristie Lu Stout out of Hong Kong. During that time, the program twice won the Asian Television Award for Asia-Pacific’s Best News Programme.
Riminton left CNN in 2009, to take up a position as senior political correspondent for Australia’s Ten News. He hosted a Sunday morning show, Meet the Press, where he interviewed political leaders. He is also an occasional guest presenter on Network Ten’s prime-time alternative news programmeThe Project.
In November 2010, Riminton was appointed as Ten News political editor and bureau chief in Canberra with Paul Bongiorno becoming national affairs editor. In 2011, he gained a second Walkley Award for his work, with reporter Matt Moran, in breaking the “Skype Scandal” in the Australian Defence Force, prompting more than half a dozen police and government inquiries. That year the pair received awards from the United Nations Association and the Australian Human Rights Commission for their work. They were shortlisted for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award. In 2013, Riminton hosted current affairs program Revealed on Network Ten.
In February 2014, Network Ten appointed Riminton as anchor of Ten Eyewitness News in Sydney with Sandra Sully. He co-anchored the bulletin until February 2017 when Sully took over as solo presenter. In August 2020, Riminton commenced as occasional presenter of the Brisbane 10 News First bulletin, after the network consolidated production of bulletins for all cities to Melbourne (for Melbourne and Adelaide) and Sydney (for Sydney, Brisbane and Perth).
Hugh Riminton Salary
His salary is around $20,000 – $100,000 per year.
Hugh Riminton Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1 million – $5 million as of 2023.
