Mike Hosking Biography
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio presenter who has worked for Radio New Zealand and TVNZ. Since 2008, he has hosted “The Mike Hosking Breakfast” on Newstalk ZB.
How old is Mike Hosking? – Age
He is 58 years old as of 24 January 2023. He was born in 1965. His real name is Michael Noel James Hosking IV.
Mike Hosking Family – Education
Hosking grew up in the Christchurch neighborhoods of St Albans, Mairehau, and Linwood, where he attended St Albans Primary School, Mairehau Primary School, and Linwood High School.
Mike Hosking Wife
Hosking married Marie Angela Hosking in 1989, and she gave birth to twins Ruby and Bella in June 2001. They split up in August 2002. In 2003, they were involved in a court dispute against Pacific Magazines over images of Marie and her two daughters obtained by tabloid writer Simon Runting in December 2002. The case at hand, Hosking v Runting, resulted in the establishment of the tort of privacy in New Zealand common law. Hosking married fellow broadcaster Kate Hawkesby in 2012. Her previous marriage produced three children.
Mike Hosking Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Mike Hosking Breakfast show
Hosking initially appeared on TVNZ in 1997, when the Breakfast show debuted. In 2004, he was fired from the show. He returned to television in 2008, when he appeared on TVNZ’s Close Up. He has hosted the breakfast show since 2008 when Paul Holmes retired. Hosking initially appeared on TVNZ in 1997, when The Breakfast show debuted. In 2004, he was fired from the show. He returned to television in 2008, when he appeared on TVNZ’s Close Up.
Mike Hosking Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
He hosted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? New Zealand, which premiered on TV ONE in September 2008. He and Toni Street joined Jesse Mulligan on the Seven Sharp panel for the second season in 2014. Hosking and Street parted ways with Seven Sharp at the end of 2017. On David Hartnell MNZM’s Best Dressed List in November 2020, he was rated one of the best-dressed guys in show business.
Mike Hosking Career
In the wake of leaving school at 16, Hosking wrote to Radio Avon and Radio Breezy searching for work and acquired some work as a publicist at Radio Blustery. He chipped away at the Radio New Zealand cross-country network in the mid-1990s facilitating The This Evening Show from one side of the country to the other, with a music and talkback design. He then happened to co-have Morning Report on Public Radio with Geoff Robinson.
In a meeting with North and South in 1990, Hosking portrayed himself as “a cash individual, I’m an entrepreneur. In 2012, Hosking was uncovered to have gotten $48,000 in installments and advantages from SkyCity Auckland Club for accomplishing customary work for them, while as yet filling in as moderator for TVNZ. During the debate over proposed citizen endowments for Sky City constructing a public conference hall, Hosking wrote with regards to the sponsorship, depicting the assembly hall as an “optimistic venture”.
In 2013, he was the speaker at State Leader John Key’s Condition of the Country discourse, which he likewise embraced. Hosking rejects the logical agreement on environmental change, expressing on Seven Sharp that he doesn’t trust the IPCC report. In 2015, Hosking was blamed for obvious political predisposition by NZ First pioneer Winston Peters and Work pioneer Andrew Little, a case unequivocally denied by Hosking and Top state leader John Key.
During the 2017 political race, Hosking was selected as arbitrator of one of the broadcast chief discussions and was again blamed for political inclination by a significant part of the New Zealand public. This prompted a request for his substitution being generally flowed, and gathering more than 75,000 marks. Banter host and coordinators TVNZ answered that it wouldn’t pacify the request endorsers, and insisted that it will keep him on as arbitrator. Hosking is against Māori wards.