Hamish McLachlan Biography
Hamish McLachlan is a Seven Sport sports broadcaster and host in Australia. McLachlan hosted the network’s Olympics and Commonwealth Games, a role formerly held by Sandy Roberts and Matt White.
How old is Hamish McLachlan? – Age
He is 47 years old as of 28 August 2022. He was born in 1975 in Adelaide, Australia. His real name is Hamish Angus McLachlan.
Hamish McLachlan Family – Education
His older brother, Gillon McLachlan, is the AFL’s Chief Executive Officer. McLachlan grew up in North Adelaide, South Australia, and attended St Peter’s College and the University of Adelaide, where he earned a degree in business.
Hamish McLachlan Wife – Children
He’s married to Sophie and they have two kids.
Hamish McLachlan Daughter
McLachlan disclosed in an AFL-sponsored mini-series called Last Time I Cried in 2020 that his baby Milla was born with West Syndrome and was given a 10% chance of surviving without significant brain damage or succumbing to her condition. Milla had to take steroids four times a day for 31 days. These were steroids so potent and severe that they were not even administered to animals. After six months, Doctor Jeremy Freeman of the Children’s Private Medical Group assured McLachlan that Milla would recover completely, which she did.
Hamish McLachlan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Hamish McLachlan Career
McLachlan joined the Seven Network in 2008 and became co-host of AFL Game Day, a new Sunday morning television program featuring a panel of Australian Rules Football experts. He also took a job as a match-day commentator at Triple M radio, calling AFL games on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Along with Seven News host Rebecca Maddern and Seven Sports host Rachel Finch, he also co-hosted the Brownlow Medal ‘Blue Carpet’ ceremonies in 2009 and 2011.
McLachlan was a court interviewer at the 2008 Australian Open, which was his first job at the Seven Network. Since then, he has been a part of the tournament every year. A few years later, he became a host on afternoons, and then in 2015, he became the host on prime time (taking over from Johanna Griggs, who herself replaced Matt White a few years earlier).
Since its inception in 2008, McLachlan has hosted AFL Game Day on Sunday mornings, which reviews and analyzes the AFL round that day. In the same year, he called Triple M’s Spring Racing Carnival. McLachlan also calls polo games in addition to Australian rules football and horse racing. Ten Goals, a small media and production company that specializes in “sports broadcasting, commentary, hosting, and multimedia presentations,” is also owned by him.
McLachlan joined the Seven Network’s AFL team in 2012, initially serving as Basil Zempilas’ co-commentator for Saturday afternoon games. Since Seven’s Docklands studios are where AFL Game Day, which he hosts earlier in the day, is produced, he began calling Sunday afternoon matches with Dennis Cometti (and later Brian Taylor) in 2015.
McLachlan eventually became the host of the network’s Friday night telecasts, which featured expert commentators and pre- and post-game analysis. McLachlan began co-commentating Saturday night matches with Luke Darcy in 2021, and in 2022, he began co-commentating Thursday night matches with Jason Bennett.
In 2016, McLachlan caused controversy and received criticism following an on-air incident in which he was pushed away by fill-in weather presenter Monika Radulovic during a live cross to the Magic Millions horse racing event. Radulovic was Miss Universe Australia. McLachlan had been flirting and embracing Radulovic. He later offered his apologies to Radulovic and on-air viewers. After not being a part of the coverage of the Olympics in Beijing in 2008, Hamish became the prime-time host for Rio 2016 on the Seven Network for the first time in 2016. He has written for Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper.
He hosted the Seven Network’s primetime coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in February. Seven’s biggest event since the Olympics in Beijing in 2008, McLachlan hosted the network’s prime-time coverage of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April 2018, which averaged over 2.1 million Australian viewers. In addition, McLachlan hosted the prime-time coverage of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed.