Joh Griggs Biography
Johanna Griggs AM is a former competitive swimmer and Australian television presenter. She took bronze in the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
How old is Joh Griggs? – Age
She is 49 years old as of 17 October 2022. She was born in 1973 in Sydney, Australia. Her real name is Johanna Leigh Griggs.
Joh Griggs Family – Education
Griggs grew raised in Harbord, a Sydney suburb that is now known as Freshwater. She had two boys with her first husband, actor Gary Sweet. Griggs received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Macquarie University in Sydney in September 2009.
Joh Griggs Husband
Griggs married building foreman Todd Huggins in a private ceremony at their home in Collaroy Plateau, Sydney, on November 25, 2006.
Joh Griggs Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Joh Griggs Commonwealth Games
Griggs won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke event at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in 1990. Her career was cut short due to a 17-year battle with chronic fatigue syndrome. She had earlier attempted a comeback in 1992, but the exertion of that endeavour had hospitalized her with pleurisy, forcing her to withdraw from the 1992 Olympic trials. Nonetheless, Griggs was able to successfully make a comeback in 1993 for the 50-metre backstroke competition at the Australian Swimming Championships, when she posted the fastest time in the world (that year). She declared her retirement from competitive swimming the day after that swim.
Joh Griggs Career
The first guest on the long-running ABC show Live and Sweaty was Griggs. Sporting guests were asked to donate various body parts to the “Sporting Hall of Fame” as part of the program. Griggs gave her reference section. In 1992, she played a tourist from Sweden in a Home and Away episode.
In the late 1990s, Griggs was a regular panelist on the Network Ten program Beauty and the Beast. He had a successful career in the media. She was also with rugby league footballer Luke Ricketson at this time.
She moved on to the Seven Network later. From 2001 to 2006, Griggs and Matthew White hosted Sportsworld, Australia’s longest-running sports program.
Auction Squad and House Calls to the Rescue, two lifestyle type shows that Griggs hosted for several seasons, She was the first Australian woman to exclusively host an Olympics coverage when she covered the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. She also covered the Australian Open.
She took over as the primary host of the long-running lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens in 2005 from Noni Hazlehurst.
She became the full-time host of Seven News Sydney’s weekend sports bulletin in 2009, taking over for Alex Cullen, who switched to the weeknight slot. She had previously served as a fill-in host. Griggs quit Seven News in November 2010 to spend more time with her family.
For Seven Sport, Griggs covers a variety of sporting events. When the competitors were not invited to the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2018, Griggs was critical of the organizers.