Mikey Robins Biography
Mikey Robins is a media personality, comedian, and writer from Australia. He is best known for hosting the satirical game show Good News Week, which aired on ABC and Network Ten from 1996 to 2000 and was revived in February 2008.
How old is Mikey Robins? – Age
He is 61 years old as of 8 December 2022.. He was born in 1961 in Newcastle, Australia. His real name is Mikel Mason Robins.
Mikey Robins Family – Education
Robins was born to Bill Robins. He went to Newcastle High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in English and Drama from the University of Newcastle.
Mikey Robins Wife
Robins married his long-term partner Laura Williams in 1999.
Mikey Robins Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Mikey Robins Illness – Health
Robins maintains that after his father died, he reacted by eating more and giving up athletics, which he attributes to the start of his fight with obesity. His obesity was a common source of comedic relief in his performances, but it also had major health consequences. He was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea in 2003, which led him to stop breathing roughly 70 times per hour while sleeping, owing in large part to his weight.
He also had excessive cholesterol, borderline type 2 diabetes, impaired liver function, and limited mobility. To combat his weight, he underwent lapband bariatric surgery in 2006. Robins weighed close to 150 kg at the time; in an episode of Australian Story that aired on 3 July 2007, he revealed that he has shed approximately 65 kg to date.
Mikey Robins ABC – Career
He worked as a parcel pickup boy at Woolworths in Garden City, Kotara, and as a bartender at the Mary Ellen Hotel in Merewether when he was in his teens. He belonged to The Castanet Club, together with Steve Abbott and Maynard.
Robins worked as a breakfast radio host for Triple J in Australia for seven years, until 1999. Helen Razer (1994 or earlier), Paul McDermott (1997), Jen Oldershaw, and The Sandman (Steve Abbott) (1998) were among his co-presenters. In 2001, he co-hosted the breakfast show on Sydney radio station Triple M with Amanda Keller, and then on Vega 95.3 with Tony Squires and Rebecca Wilson.
Robins’ career in television comedy was spurred by his Triple J fame; he starred on Live and Sweaty and was a regular on McFeast before partnering McDermott on Good News Week in 1996. He remained with Good News Week from 1996 to 2000, and when Network Ten relaunched the show in 2008, he returned in his former capacity.
Other television efforts for Robins include included documentaries about Australian pubs such as Mikey, Pubs, and Beer Nuts, as well as appearances on the ABC series The Fat and the Seven Network’s breakfast show Sunrise. In 1989-1990, he portrayed Reg Linchpin on ABC’s Mr Squiggle and Friends.
Mikey Robins Book
Robins is also a published novelist, having co-written two novels, including the best-selling Three Beers and a Chinese Meal (with Helen Razer) and Big Man’s World (with Tony Squires and Steve Abbott).