Indira Naidoo Biography
Indira Naidoo is an author, journalist, and television and radio host from Australia. She was confirmed as the host of Nightlife by ABC in January 2020.
How old is Indira Naidoo? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 15 May 2023. She was born in 1968 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
What happened to Indira Naidoo’s sister? – Family
Naidoo’s parents were political activists in South Africa during the apartheid era. Her father worked as a dentist, while her mother taught. They lived in Pietermaritzburg before fleeing when Naidoo was two years old due to discrimination that restricted her parents’ jobs. She attended 12 schools in England, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tasmania before finishing year 12 in Adelaide, South Australia.
Who is Indira Naidoo married to? – How many children does Indira Naidoo have? – Husband
In 2002, Naidoo married Australian television producer and director Mark Fitzgerald.
Indira Naidoo Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Indira Naidoo The Space Between The Stars
In the aftermath of her younger sister’s suicide, she writes on the healing influence of nature in her 2022 book, The Space Between The Stars.
Indira Naidoo Career
Naidoo joined Decision, an Australian autonomous shopper guard dog, as media supervisor and representative in 2006. She started the Shonky Awards, a yearly media event that recognizes the worst consumer goods. She has appeared on shows like A Current Affair and The 7.30 Report in this capacity.
Through her television company, FitzGerald Productions, she has served as a consumer communications consultant for the International Trade Centre, the trade arm of the United Nations, as well as a number of environmental and community organizations. Naidoo was one of 261 people picked in 2009 to be taught by previous US VP Al Violence in Melbourne to give normal discussions about the impacts of anthropogenic environmental change.
Starting around 2013, Naidoo was the supportability keeper for the Australian Nursery Show in Sydney. In 2015, Naidoo was a visiting professor at the Laurie M. Tisch School of Food Education and Policy at Columbia University in New York City.
Naidoo acquired public noticeable quality in 1997 for her less serious appearances on ABC’s Club Buggery, a late-night satire theatrical presentation facilitated by Roy and HG in which she featured as cop Barbara in a standard improv show — a police parody named “Sam Stain” close by Ian Turpie and entertainer Harold Hopkins. Following this, he made appearances on McFeast, Good News Week, The Fat, Steve Abbott’s variety show Under The Grandstand, and In Siberia Tonight.
Naidoo competed in the inaugural season of Celebrity MasterChef Australia in September 2009, and she made an appearance on Tony Martin’s Get This radio show on Triple M in September 2006. In 2017 she was a visitor moderator on ABC Television’s Planting Australia program conveying expert stories on metropolitan cultivating drives. She hosted the SBS television series Filthy Rich and Homeless later that year. From 2018 to 2019, she co-hosted Breakfast with Indira and Trevor on Sydney’s 2CH radio station.
Indira Naidoo ABC
She went on to host ABC Weekend News and The 7.30 Report after working as a political and industrial correspondent for numerous years. Naidoo then moved to ABC’s National Late Edition News in Sydney, where she became the network’s youngest national news host. She has also written extensively for a number of culinary and travel magazines, including Australian Gourmet Traveller, The Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Good Living’, and The Sunday Herald’s ‘Sunday Life’ Magazine. Naidoo will take over as host of Evenings on ABC Radio Sydney in January 2023, the ABC announced in December 2022. Naidoo will be replaced as Nightlife host by Suzanne Hill.
Indira Naidoo The Edible Balcony
Her debut book, The Edible Balcony, an urban gardening cookbook published in October 2011 by Penguin, sold over 10,000 copies in six months and has been republished four times. The Edible City, her second novel, was released in August 2015.
Indira Naidoo Books
♦ 2011 – The Edible Balcony (Penguin Lantern)
♦ 2015 – The Edible City (Penguin Lantern)
♦ 2014 – From the Heart – Women of Letters – essay contributor (Penguin Lantern)
♦ 2022 – The Space Between The Stars (Murdoch Books)