Jo Pearson Biography
Jo Pearson is a journalist and television presenter from Australia. Pearson is arguably best recognized for her work with Network Ten in the 1980s and early 1990s.
How old is Jo Pearson? – Age
She was born in Australia.
Jo Pearson Husband – Son
Pearson formerly married weather broadcaster Rob Gell, with whom she co-hosted Ten Eyewitness News. Nicholas Gell, their son, graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2012.
Jo Pearson Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Jo Pearson Career
Subsequent to working at TVQ-0 in Brisbane, she moved to ATV-0 in Melbourne where she co-gave Ten Observer News David Johnston from 1982 to 1987 and again from 1991 to 1993. During Melborne’s annual Moomba Festival in 1988, Pearson has crowned a Moomba monarch.
In 1988, Pearson was reportedly lured away from Ten by the Nine Network, which offered her a contract worth approximately one million dollars. According to reports, Nine was attempting to “warehouse” Pearson in order to disrupt the successful pairing of Johnston and Pearson.
In 1988, she co-hosted a national newsmagazine program with Terry Willesee called Live at Five, and she also hosted a Saturday afternoon lifestyle program called Body and Soul. The two projects battled and were at last chopped out in 1989. This was after Inhabit Five was renamed to Eye on Australia in mid-1989 with Willesee facilitating the show solo. Pearson and Willesse’s Inhabit 5 was recalled in 2009 when Nine again endeavored a midday news magazine program when they sent off This Evening.
In 1991, Pearson returned to Ten, where she and Johnston resumed their partnership on Ten Eyewitness News. Pearson stated in an interview with TV Week regarding her time at Nine: Although I went with the promise and expectation of a new career at the time, I think I had a lot of bad luck. In hindsight, you could say that it was a mistake for me to go. I and the shows had a very difficult time due to political and geographical differences. In 1991, she co-facilitated Ten’s Young Achiever Grants broadcast with Tim Webster.
When Pearson changed her hair color from blonde to auburn in 1992, she caused a stir. This irritated leaders at Ten who requested her to quickly change her hair variety back to how it was. “Some things never change, sadly,” Pearson said in 2012 in response to Tracey Spicer’s article in The Sydney Morning Herald about misogyny Spicer had encountered in her television career. In 1993, she left Ten and was supplanted by Marie-Louise Theile. Pearson then proceeded to be a specialist on TVTV on ABC television.
Later, Pearson established Media Strategies, a media training company that specializes in public speaking and disaster management. In 2010, Pearson was splitting her time among Melbourne and Ealing in London and by 2012, she was living in Hertfordshire in the UK and functioning as a maker, chief and voiceover craftsman. The acclaimed ABC television drama The Newsreader is said to have been influenced by a group of successful female news presenters from the 1980s. Pearson is one of them.