Lisa Wilkinson Biography
Lisa Wilkinson AM is a journalist and television presenter from Australia who narrates Ambulance Australia and previously co-hosted the breakfast television show Today on the Nine Network with Karl Stefanovic.
How old is Lisa Wilkinson? – Age
She is 63 years old as of 19 December 2022. She was born in 1959 in Wollongong, Australia.
Lisa Wilkinson Husband – Does Lisa Wilkinson have a daughter?
On September 26, 1992, Wilkinson married novelist, journalist, and former rugby international Peter FitzSimons; they had two sons and one daughter.
What is Lisa Wilkins’s Net Worth? – Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.3 million.
Lisa Wilkins 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 Wilkins Today Show
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 Wilkins Cleo
Kerry Packer asked her when she tripled the magazine’s circulation to become editor of Australian Consolidated Press’s women’s lifestyle magazine, Cleo. One of her first steps was to get rid of the magazine’s famed masculine cover. She taught aspiring journalists such as Mia Freedman and Deborah Thomas during her tenure as editor. Wilkinson was the magazine’s longest-standing editor, staying for ten years and overseeing tremendous circulation growth. Wilkinson then became Cleo’s International Editor-in-Chief when the title expanded into New Zealand and Asia.
Lisa Wilkins Career
Her TV vocation 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.
The Andrew Olle Memorial Lecture that Wilkinson delivered in 2013 was titled “The Treatment of Women in and by the Media.” Since Jana Wendt in 1997, she was the first female journalist to deliver the speech.
In 2017, Wilkinson was commented on by The Day to day Mail for wearing on air a pullover she had worn four months prior. 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. In the days that followed, the blouse was also worn by other male and female Today Show hosts.
For her ground-breaking interview with political staffer Brittany Higgins in which she alleged being raped on Federal Government Minister Linda Reynold’s office couch in 2019 in October 2021, Wilkinson was named a two-time finalist in the Walkley Awards in October 2021. 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.