Marc Fennell Biography
Marc Fennell is a journalist, television host, radio personality, and author from Australia. Fennell is the host of Mastermind, Stuff The British Stole, and The Feed.
How old is Marc Fennell? – Age
He is 38 years old as of 2 June 2023. He was born in 1985 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Marc Fennell Family – Education
Fennell attended the University of Technology in Sydney for eight weeks before leaving to join SBS. His mother is an Indian-Singaporean schoolteacher, while his father is an Irish photographer. He went to Trinity Grammar School and then St George Christian School for high school.
Marc Fennell Wife
He is married to Madeleine Genner. The couple has two children.
Marc Fennell Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Marc Fennell Podcasts
Fennell launched It Burns, an audio series about the global race to grow the hottest pepper, in 2019. In 2020, he released Nut Jobs, a documentary on a $10 million nut theft in California. Fennell also produced the ABC and CBC audio series Stuff The British Stole, which has since spawned an Australian and Canadian television series.
Marc Fennell Mastermind
Fennell took over as host of the Australian version of Mastermind in 2021, succeeding Jennifer Byrne. Clive Myrie presently hosts Mastermind, a British television quiz program for the BBC. Bill Wright, the film’s creator, was inspired by his experiences being interrogated by the Gestapo during WWII. The show had an intimidating environment and difficult questions. Four (and in later contests, five or six) candidates compete in two rounds, one on a specialized subject of their choice and the other on general knowledge.
Marc Fennell Hungry Beast
Fennell hosted and reported on ABC1’s Hungry Beast. He focused on digital media, popular culture, gaming, and technology. Denton chose Fennell as one of nine team members to create internet content for Zapruder’s Other Films. Prior to Hungry Beast, Fennell collaborated on a YouTube spoof of the Freeview debut with another of the presenters, Dan Ilic, as part of their live comedy show Massage My Medium at the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Marc Fennell The Feed
Fennell hosted the SBS current affairs show The Feed from 2013 until its end in 2022. Fennell’s pre-recorded parts, most notably his interviews with film and television stars, were a fixture of the show in addition to his main job co-hosting. Fennell received a Walkley Award in 2020 for his work documenting museum specimen theft.
Marc Fennell Books
Fennell has two books published by HarperCollins: That Movie Book and The Planet According to Movies.
Marc Fennell Career
In 2002, Fennell was a champ of the principal AFI Youthful Film Pundits Contest. He then turned into a film pundit and columnist for the Sydney radio broadcast FBi Radio from 2003-2006. During this period Fennell was chosen as one of four moderators of SBS’s The Film Show in mid-2004. Fennell stayed with the show until June 2006, when the show went on break, returning in an alternate configuration (and with an alternate group) in 2007.
Fennell covered film across the ABC Radio Organization including ABC Nearby Radio and the public youth telecaster triple j. He introduced the week-after-week film section on the Organization Ten morning program The Circle from 2010 until it was cut out in August 2012.
Fennell likewise consistently created computerized projects investigating film culture including Bollywood For Novices: a series for SBS TV about the historical backdrop of Bollywood. He likewise co-created a web series about film trailers, Coming Sooner, with Scratch Hayden and Nicholas McDougall.
Fennell turned into a debut co-host of the week-by-week ABC TV program India Now in 2022, a show that depicts itself as “a rich and engaging glance at news, culture and governmental issues from India and the sub-mainland.” The show is focused on an Australian crowd and it is facilitated by Australians with Indian legacy.
A subsequent season started in 2023. In 2021, Fennell introduced Outlined a 4-section SBS narrative into the robbery of Picasso’s painting The Sobbing Lady. Fennell facilitated the Australian rendition of The School That Attempted to End Bigotry for the ABC. Fennell has revealed all over the planet for the SBS international concerns program Dateline.
In 2023, he introduced The Realm, a full-length SBS narrative that debuted on 11 June 2023 and which explored his previous Pentecostal religion, specifically the triumphs and discussions of the Hillsong Church and the ascent in new megachurches in Australia.