Amanda Keller Biography
Amanda Keller is an Australian television and radio presenter, comedian, writer, actor, journalist, and media personality best known as the hostess of The Living Room, a famous Australian lifestyle program. Keller also co-hosts Jonesy & Amanda on WSFM 101.7 with Brendan Jones and Dancing with the Stars with Grant Denyer on Network 10.
How old is Amanda Keller? – Age
She is 61 years old as of 25 February 2023. She was born on 25 February 1962 in Sydney, Australia.
Amanda Keller Education
Keller graduated from Carlingford High School and Mitchell College of Advanced Education (now Charles Sturt University) in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. She was a student of Peter Temple and a contemporary of Andrew Denton at the university. She worked as a DJ for the on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM.
Amanda Keller Husband
She resides in Sydney with her husband Harley Oliver and their two boys.
Amanda Keller Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Amanda Keller Beyond 2000
She departed Midday in 1987 to star in the pilot for Richard Neville’s counter-culture show Extra Dimensions, which was created by the same team who created Beyond 2000. After the first season, Extra Dimensions was cancelled. Keller’s fortunes turned when she was signed to Beyond 2000, a globally popular scientific show for which she received multiple media accolades, including the United Nations Association of Australia’s Media Peace Award in 1989 and the Michael Daley Prize for Science Journalism.
Amanda Keller Books
In 1994, she became a regular guest on Andrew Denton’s show Denton, where she mixed her scientific expertise with her love of popular culture and kitsch, later authoring a book, Amanda’s Helpful Household Tips. When the series ended in 1995, she went to work with Denton at Sydney radio station Triple M, where they co-hosted the breakfast program. At the same time, she presented The Hub, a cable television show on current culture.
Amanda Keller Dancing with the Stars
Keller began co-hosting Dancing with the Stars with Grant Denyer in 2019.
Amanda Keller Career
Keller’s first professional media work was as a researcher for Simon Townsend’s Wonder World!, a famous children’s television show, in 1983. She then worked as a researcher and producer for Gordon Elliott and Kerri-Anne Kennerley on Good Morning Australia.
By 1985, she was a researcher and producer for Ray Martin’s Midday show, when she made her first television appearance. In 2004, she presented her own pop culture-focused show, Mondo Thingo. Keller competed in Season Five of Dancing with the Stars in 2006, reaching the fifth round before being eliminated.
She first appeared as Amanda Doyle, the Regional Manager, in the SBS TV series Swift and Shift Couriers in 2008, and she returned for season two in 2011. She also had a brief appearance in another SBS TV sitcom, Housos, in 2011. Keller served as the Baby Boomers team captain on Network Ten’s quiz show Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation in 2009.
The show premiered in 2009 and concluded its fourth season in 2012. She was named one of the highest-paid women on Australian radio in 2017. In the same year, she appeared as a news reporter in The Bold and the Beautiful episode 7547 opposite Brendan Jones and Ita Buttrose.
She has also been on Good News Week, Rove Live, The Glass House, 20 to 1, Spicks and Specks, All-Star Family Feud, The Project, Studio 10, Show Me the Movie!, and other programs. Have You Payed Attention? We Have a Problem, Hughesy.
