Lisa Wilkinson Biography
Lisa Wilkinson AM is a television presenter, journalist, and magazine editor from Australia. Wilkinson presently narrates Ambulance Australia and has previously co-hosted Today with Karl Stefanovic on the Nine Network, Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network, and The Project on Network Ten.
Lisa Wilkinson Education (Does Lisa Wilkinson have a degree?)
Wilkinson attended Campbelltown High School (now Campbelltown Performing Arts High School). Instead of attending a typical institution, she earned a credential from Metropolitan Business College.
Lisa Wilkinson Age
She is 63 years old as of 19 December 2022. She was born on 19 December 1959 in Wollongong, Australia.
Lisa Wilkinson Husband – (Does Lisa Wilkinson have a son?)
Lisa is married to Peter FitzSimons AM, a journalist, best-selling author, and former Wallaby rugby international. The couple married on September 26, 1992, and together has two sons and one daughter.
Lisa Wilkinson Husband’s Cancer
And, no, Lisa’s spouse does not have cancer, nor has he ever had one. Peter FitzSimons is a fit author who has already authored over 34 books.
Lisa Wilkinson Book
In 2021, she released her autobiography, It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This, HarperCollins, ISBN 9781460704455, 496 pages. The book was reprinted a second time.
Lisa Wilkinson Height (How Tall is Lisa Wilkinson?)
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.67 m).
Lisa Wilkinson Net Worth (How much is Wilkinson’s net worth?)
She has an estimated net worth of $1.3 million.
Lisa Wilkinson Today
Wilkinson was confirmed to co-host Today on the Nine Network after Jessica Rowe departed the network on May 10, 2007, and she began appearing on Today on May 28, 2007. Stefanovic’s fifth female co-host in less than two years. For the first time in 12 years, the team propelled the show to the top of the breakfast TV ratings in 2016.
Wilkinson resigned from the Nine Network and Today on October 16, 2017, effective immediately, due to a contract disagreement with Nine management about the huge gender pay disparity that existed between her and long-time cohost Karl Stefanovic. Wilkinson herself announced her departure on Twitter, and then, just over an hour later, revealed her arrival to Channel Ten. Wilkinson said in her 2021 memoir, It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This, that she was fired from the Network for requesting a fairer pay structure.
Lisa Wilkinson The Project
In 2018, she joined The Project, a nightly Network 10 current affairs show. Wilkinson “stepped down from her role on The Project after a controversial year on the show” on November 20, 2022.
Lisa Wilkinson Career
In the wake of significantly increasing the magazine’s course, she was actually drawn closer by Kerry Packer to become supervisor of Australian Merged Press ladies’ way of life magazine, Cleo. One of her most memorable demonstrations was to eliminate the magazine’s notorious male dream boat. During her experience as proofreader, she tutored anticipated columnists like Mia Freedman and Deborah Thomas. Wilkinson served as the magazine’s editor for over ten years, making her the title’s longest-serving editor. During her tenure, the magazine saw unprecedented growth in its circulation. After that, Wilkinson became Cleo’s International Editor-in-Chief while the title was being launched in New Zealand and Asia.
From 1999 to 2007, Wilkinson was Proofreader On the loose of The Australian Ladies’ Week by week. Wilkinson was asked by Arianna Huffington in August 2015 to become The Huffington Post’s Australian Editor-at-Large. A job she held until 2018. Her TV profession started in the last part of the 1990s when she turned into an ordinary specialist on Organization Ten and Foxtel’s Magnificence and the Monster. During the 2000 Summer Olympics, she (alongside Duncan Armstrong) co-facilitated The Morning Movement on the Seven Organization.
Wilkinson joined Chris Reason and Andrew O’Keefe as Weekend Sunrise hosts on the Seven Network in April 2005. Wilkinson was the co-host of the Nine Network’s Carols by Candlelight from 2008 to 2016, taking over for the long-time host Ray Martin when Martin was semi-retired. Karl Stefanovic was Wilkinson’s co-host from 2008 to 2012, and David Campbell joined her in 2013. She was supplanted by Sonia Kruger in 2017 after she left the Nine Organization.
In 2013, Wilkinson gave the Andrew Olle Remembrance Talk on the treatment of ladies in and by the media. Since Jana Wendt in 1997, she was the first female journalist to deliver the speech.
The Daily Mail criticized Wilkinson in 2017 for airing a blouse she had worn four months earlier. Karl Stefanovic, her cohost, had previously gone a year without anyone noticing that he was wearing the same suit every day. Wilkinson wore the blouse on air the following day and wrote sarcastically, “My greatest legacy to the annals of female news broadcasting history will likely be that I dared to wear the same outfit two days in a row on national TV,” in response to the sexism. Other male and female Today Show has likewise wore the pullover on air in following days.
In October 2021, Wilkinson was named a double cross finalist in the Walkley Grants for her weighty meeting with political staff member Brittany Higgins in which she claimed being assaulted on Central Government Pastor Linda Reynold’s office sofa in 2019. Because of that story, the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, conducted a comprehensive cultural assessment of the way women in Parliament House’s workplace were treated.