Johanna 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 Johanna 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.
Who is Johanna Griggs husband? – Husband
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 married building foreman Todd Huggins in a private ceremony at their home in Collaroy Plateau, Sydney, on November 25, 2006.
How tall is Joanna Grigg? – Height
She stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches(1.83 m).
Joanna Grigg Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $7.69 million.
Johanna Griggs Seven News Sydney
After previously filling in as a weekend sports bulletin presenter for Seven News Sydney, she took up the post-full-time in 2009, replacing Alex Cullen, who moved to the weeknight role. Griggs left Seven News in November 2010 to spend more time with her family.
Johanna 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 endeavor 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-meter 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.
Johanna Griggs Career
Griggs was the principal visitor on the long-running ABC program Live and Sweat-soaked. Sporting guests were asked to donate various body parts to the “Sporting Hall of Fame” as part of the program. She gave her appendix away. She showed up as a Swedish traveler in an episode of Home and Away in 1992.
Griggs fabricated a strong vocation in media, and in the last part of the 1990s was a standard specialist on the Organization Ten program Magnificence and the Monster. She was also with rugby league footballer Luke Ricketson at this time. She later joined the Seven Organization. Griggs facilitated Australia’s longest-running games program, Sportsworld, with Matthew White on Sunday mornings from 2001 to 2006.
Auction Squad and House Calls to the Rescue, are 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.
In 2005, she supplanted Noni Hazlehurst as the essential host of the long-running way of life program Better Homes and Gardens. Griggs covers a few games for Seven Game. When the competitors were not invited to the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2018, Griggs was critical of the organizers.