Helen Kapalos Biography
Helen Kapalos is a journalist and television presenter from Australia. She is the Chairperson of the Victorian Multicultural Commission, and her four-year term began on August 17, 2015.
How old is Helen Kapalos? – Age
She is 52 years old as of 17 March 2023. She was born in 1971 in Newcastle, Australia.
Helen Kapalos Partner
She was married to Craig Boettcher. The couple separated in 2007.
Helen Kapalos Seven Network
Kapalos began hosting Today Tonight on the Seven Network in New South Wales and Victoria on February 11, 2013. She broadcast from the Melbourne studios of the Seven Network. Helen left the company at the end of 2013 to pursue her passion for longer-form storytelling roles.
She became a senior journalist for the network’s current affairs show, Sunday Night, in January 2014. When important news topics develop, she also reports as a senior correspondent on other network news shows.
Helen Kapalos Career
Kapalos started her vocation in her old neighborhood of Newcastle, New South Ridges, as a correspondent for ABC Radio in 1994, a columnist at 2HD and NEW FM prior to moving to TV with SBS in Sydney. She got back to Newcastle, where she worked both as an honor-winning columnist and news moderator for NBN TV News.
Kapalos returned to national broadcasting in 2002, joining the Nine Network as a reporter and news presenter. In 2005, Kapalos joined Nightline as a news presenter and later joined National Nine News and A Current Affair as a reporter.
Kapalos moved to Melbourne in 2006 and joined Network Ten. There, she succeeded Jennifer Hansen as co-anchor of 10 News First Melbourne alongside Mal Walden. In November 2012, Kapalos’ agreement was not reestablished, after the organization chose to change to a solo-moderator design with Walden.
Kapalos is the writer, director, and executive producer of the independent documentary A Life of Its Own. She came up with the idea for the film while she was a senior correspondent for the Seven Network’s Sunday Night, where she covered a series of stories about medical marijuana.
For a period of four years, Kapalos will serve as Chair of the Victorian Multicultural Commission, beginning on August 17, 2015. Kapalos was named Hawthorn Football Club’s number one ticket holder in 2012, and the club’s number one female ticket holder in 2013. She has continued to interview Hawthorn players, including a special with seven of their Indigenous players in May 2013 ahead of the AFL’s Indigenous Round. Kapalos has also written on Hawthorn for the Melbourne newspaper The Age.