Peter FitzSimons Biography
Peter FitzSimons is an author, journalist, and radio and television host from Australia. He was the chair of the Australian Republic Movement from 2015 to 2022 and is a former national representative rugby union player.
How old is Peter FitzSimons? – Age
He is 61 years old as of 29 June 2022. He was born in 1961 in Sydney, Australia. His real name is Peter John Allen FitzSimons.
Peter FitzSimons Family – Education
FitzSimons grew raised in Peats Ridge, on New South Wales’ Central Coast. He was the youngest of seven children. He attended Peats Ridge Public School and Knox Grammar School before heading to Findlay High School in Ohio for a year on an American Field Service Scholarship in 1978. He then earned an arts degree at the University of Sydney, where he lived from 1980 to 1982.
Peter FitzSimons Wife
FitzSimons is married to Lisa Wilkinson, an Australian journalist and TV personality. They live in Sydney with their three children.
What is Peter Fitzsimmons’s Net Worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $11 Million.
Peter FitzSimons Height
He stands at a height of 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m).
Peter FitzSimons Bandana
Fitzsimmons is well-known for his use of a red bandana. He has claimed that he wears the bandana on a regular basis because his children give it to him to wear, therefore he wears it for them. Due to his use of the hat, he is sometimes referred to as “Pirate Pete” informally.
Peter FitzSimons Books
FitzSimons is a prolific author and one of Australia’s best-selling nonfiction authors. He has authored novels about Nancy Wake, the Batavia shipwreck, Sir John Monash, Breaker Morant, Charles Kingsford Smith, and John Eales.
Peter FitzSimons Radio
FitzSimons began co-hosting a breakfast radio show with Mike Carlton on Sydney radio station 2UE in January 2006. He was brought on to the 2UE breakfast show to help boost the station’s falling ratings. The Mike and Fitz Breakfast Show, on the other hand, lagged far behind the number one program on 2GB, hosted by FitzSimons’ former coach Alan Jones. FitzSimons left after two years to become a stay-at-home dad and focus on his writing.
Peter FitzSimons Jacinta Price
Fitzsimons threatened to sue Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for defamation in August 2022 after she complained that he had been impolite and belligerent in a phone interview. Price requested FizSimons and the Sydney Morning Herald to disclose the interview recording, but they refused.
Peter FitzSimons Rugby
FitzSimons began his club rugby career in the 1980s with the Sydney University Football Club and then with the Manly RUFC, both of which were coached by Alan Jones. He spent four seasons as the club’s first foreign player with CA Brive in France between 1985 and 1989. Between 1989 and 1990, he played seven test matches at lock for the Australian national rugby union team, making his debut against France in Strasbourg in November 1989, during the Wallabies’ 1989 European tour. In Christchurch, he played his final Test against the All Blacks.
Former Wallabies winger David Campese criticized FitzSimons in On a Wing and a Prayer for sparking a brawl in Australia’s first Test against France in 1990. FitzSimons’ activities, according to Campese, were “a disgrace to the good name of rugby” and “he was doing the game and its reputation enormous damage.” Campese warned that if such brawls “turn even one family away from the game, they have been too costly.”
“He’s a big character,” former Wallabies backrower Willie Ofahengaue said of FitzSimons. He’s a funny man. Talkative. When I was rooming with him, he used to get his luggage, tilt it up, and dump everything on the floor. When it was time to go home, he would throw everything back in whatever manner he could. Fitzy was a genuine roughie, but now that he’s married, he must have changed.”
Peter FitzSimons The Sydney Morning Herald
FitzSimons has been writing for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1988, and has been a sports correspondent since 1987. He is a regular on the Australian Foxtel program The Back Page, which was previously hosted by rugby league journalist Mike Gibson and is now hosted by Tony Squires. FitzSimons writes a piece named “The Fitz Files” for the Saturday edition of The Sydney Morning Herald, in which he looks back at the previous seven days in sports.