Kerri-Anne Kennerley Biography
Kerri-Anne Kennerley is a television and radio presenter, actress, and singer from Australia. She has been in the industry for almost 50 years and has been inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame. She co-hosted Network 10’s Good Morning Australia for 11 years before taking over as Midday anchor from Tracy Grimshaw and David Reyne.
How old is Kerri-Anne Kennerley? – Age
She is 69 years old as of 22 September 2022. She was born in 1953 in Gold Coast, Australia.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Family
Kennerley was born as the daughter of a builder/hobby farmer. She grew up in Sandgate, a bay-side suburb of Brisbane, with her three siblings. She was married to record producer Jimmy Miller during her stay in the United States. He allegedly assaulted her on a frequent basis, according to her. She sought help from a friend, John Kennerley, who assisted her in leaving the abusive marriage.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Husband – Children
She married John Kennerley, who had two children from a previous marriage, in 1984. She disclosed in a 2006 interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly that they had tried for many years to have children, that she suffered a miscarriage 15 years ago, and that she would always regret not having children. Her husband was paralyzed in March 2016 after injuring his neck in a fall in Coffs Harbour. He died in February 2019, at the age of 78.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $ 30 million.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Height
She stands at a height of 1.65m.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Dancing with the Stars
Kennerley joined the Seven Network in 2012 and competed in the twelfth season of the network’s show Dancing with the Stars. She was the fourth participant eliminated, finishing seventh overall. Dancing with the Stars is an Australian reality television show that ran on the Seven Network from 2004 to 2015 and on Network 10 from 2019 to 2020. It aired live from the HSV-7 studios (now Global Television studios) in Melbourne on the Seven Network; on Network 10, it aired live from Disney Studios Australia in Sydney and Docklands Studios in Melbourne.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Studio 10
Kennerley was named as a co-host for Network 10’s morning chat show Studio 10 alongside Denise Scott and the remaining hosts Sarah Harris, Angela Bishop, Denise Drysdale, and Joe Hildebrand in September 2018. Kennerly announced his departure from Studio 10 three years before the show’s major makeover in August 2020.
During climate change protests related to the Extinction Rebellion in October 2019, Kennerley recommended that individuals run over demonstrators with their cars to prevent the campaign from disrupting traffic. On her Studio 10 show, she stated, “No emergency services should help them, nobody should do anything, leave them there, and you just put little witch’s hats around them or use them as speed bumps.” She also stated in the same broadcast that starving them in prison would be an alternative method.
Kennerley was one of several Network Ten talents that were laid go due to network budget constraints in 2020, along with fellow Studio 10 personality and news presenter Natarsha Belling and long-time weather presenter Tim Bailey. Kennerley was cast in the lead role of Berthe in Pippin at the Sydney Lyric Theatre after leaving Studio 10.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Network Ten
She moved to Network Ten in 2001 to host the game series Greed and Moment of Truth. Both were flops that lasted barely a few episodes. In 2002, she returned to the Nine Network to anchor Kerri-Anne (formerly titled Mornings with Kerri-Anne), her second solo talk show. The show aired daily from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Kerri-Anne had been on the air for nine years when it was terminated in 2011.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Channel 7
Kennerley joined the Seven Network in 2012 and competed in the twelfth season of the network’s show Dancing with the Stars. She was the fourth participant eliminated, finishing seventh overall. Due to Kennerley’s cancer fight, a planned prime-time program for the network was canceled, although she appeared as a guest reporter on Sunday Night and as a fill-in presenter for Kylie Gillies on The Morning Show.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley Career
At the age of 14, Kennerley made her debut on QTQ 9’s children’s programming, The Channel Niners and Everybody’s In, in 1967. She landed the role of Melinda Burgess in the teen-oriented soap opera The Restless Years in 1981 after returning to Australia from the US. She was the host of the breakfast show Good Morning Australia for 11 years on Network Ten.
Kennerley was a singer in the 1980s. In 1985, she released an album titled “Kerri-Anne,” which was self-titled. On the comedy show Fast Forward, singer and comedian Gina Riley mocked her cabaret singing style. She performed the AC/DC song “Dirty Deeds” on the television show and subsequent album “Andrew Denton’s Musical Challenge.”
In 1996, Kennerly took over as host of the daytime variety show Midday from Tracy Grimshaw and David Reyne, renaming the show Midday with Kerri-Anne. This was her most memorable performance syndicated program. Facilitating obligations on the show acquired her three Gold Logie selections. She joined the What’s Cooking program in 1999 after Midday ended in the latter part of 1998. The program as well as this position only lasted a few months. The Nine Network aired What’s Cooking and Midday.
In September 2013, Kennerley joined Foxtel to introduce the genuine wrongdoing series Behind Manor Walls for the Wrongdoing and Examination Organization. 13 one-hour episodes are included in the initial order. Kennerley has likewise been a visitor specialist on Organization Ten’s The Task.
Kennerley spoke out in 2016 in support of Sonia Kruger, who had proposed that Muslims should not be allowed to immigrate to Australia. Kruger was subsequently tracked down by the New South Ribs Common and Authoritative Court to have criticized Muslims. In 2017, Kennerley made an appearance as herself in the main episode of The Conflict on Squander.