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Georgie Gardner

Georgie Gardner (born 1 June 1970) is an Australian journalist.

Gardner has previously been a presenter on Nine News Sydney, co-host and news presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast program Today.

Gardner was born in Perth, Western Australia, the daughter of Preston and Ruth. Preston was a stockbroker. He died at the age of 52 from complications during oesophageal cancer surgery. Her maternal grandfather, was an accountant by trade in Perth who became a stock, station and shipping agent in the Kimberley from 1938 to 1970.

Preston and Ruth had three children, Katie, Georgie and John. When Gardner was 5, her parents divorced and subsequently remarried. She has half siblings by her mother, Beth and David, and a half brother, Richard, by her father.

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, she studied journalism at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Gardner is the only Australian news presenter to have presented the late news bulletin on each of the three major commercial TV networks, having filled in as presenter of the Ten Late News, as full-time presenter of Seven Late News, and as a substitute presenter of Nightline, the late night version of Nine News.

Gardner has previously been a fill-in presenter for Sonia Kruger on Today Extra.

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, whose wife Rani, who lived in Perth, was a close friend of Gardner.

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