Wendy Harmer Biography
Wendy Harmer is a novelist, children’s author, playwright and dramatist, radio show host, comedian, and television personality from Australia.
How old is Wendy Harmer? – Age
She is 67 years old as of 10 October 2022. She was born in 1955 in Yarram, Australia.
Wendy Harmer Family – Education
Harmer grew up in tiny country communities in Victoria, including Warncoort, Selby, California Gully, Freshwater Creek, and Geelong, where she studied journalism at the Gordon Institute of TAFE and Deakin University and worked as a reporter for the Geelong Advertiser.
Is Wendy Harmer still married? – Husband
Harmer is married to Brendan and the couple has two children. She is a co-founder of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles’ Angels, the local rugby league club’s female fans’ organization.
How much does Wendy Harmer earn? – Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Wendy Harmer Pearlie
Harmer has also written the Pearlie the Park Fairy series of children’s books. To date, 17 books in the Pearlie series have been published. They are best-sellers in Australia and have been released in 10 other countries. Pearlie, the animated series, has been shown on Australian, Canadian, and American television, and Harmer adapted Pearlie in the Park, the first book in the series, for the stage. The Monkey Baa theatre company presented this piece on tour throughout Australia in 2005.
Wendy Harmer ABC
She made her television debut in the ABC children’s show Trap, Winkle, and Box. She then co-starred in the satirical political TV show The Gillies Report with John Clarke, Phillip Scott, Tracy Harvey, Patrick Cook, and Jean Kittson.
Harmer later hosted ABC TV’s The Big Gig, which featured performers such as Glynn Nicholas, Rod Quantock, Greg Fleet, Jean Kittson, and the Doug Anthony All-Stars. She also had her own ABC television chat show, In Harmer’s Way, alongside comedians Greg Fleet, Andrew Goodone, Simon Rogers, and Tim Smith. Her stand-up days were remembered in a 2015 episode of Julia Zemiro’s ABC TV show Home Delivery. Her program was billed as a “heartfelt account of her life.”
Wendy Harmer ABC 702 Mornings
Harmer began her morning shift at the new Sydney and Melbourne radio station Vega FM in September 2005, however by March 2006, she had left her morning show due to creative issues with management. Harmer returned to radio in 2016, co-hosting the ABC Radio Sydney morning show with Robbie Buck. Harmer and Buck revealed in a News piece on 1 October 2021 that they were departing the morning show after three years of collaboration, noting that they wanted to “go out on a high.”
Wendy Harmer Books
Harmer is the writer of seven books for grown-ups: So anyway–: It’s a Joke, Joyce (1989), Love Gone Wrong (1995), Farewell My Ovaries (2005), Nagging for Beginners (2006), and Love and Punishment (2006) are collections of Wendy’s weekly columns from the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend Magazine. Wendy’s words of wisdom was published in 1997. In April 2009, Roadside Sisters was published. In 2011, her fourth book, Friends Like These, was released.
The books by Harmer have been described—by whom? as belonging to the chick lit or hen lit genre. For The Age newspaper, Harmer wrote that the genres were misunderstood.
“And if everything is just routine “women’s stuff?” If having children, a happy marriage, friendship, and happiness are of little importance? “Bring out the chocolate and pass me the girly book with pastel covers!” They are very funny popular light novels. Harmer’s first book for teens was I Lost My Mobile at the Mall (2009). The continuation was I Made Lattes for an adoration God in 2012.
She has contributed to and written articles for a number of Australian publications, including The Australian Women’s Weekly, New Weekly, The Good Weekend, HQ, Sunday Telegraph, and Yours. Harmer added to Marie Claire’s What Ladies Need in 2002, My Wearing Legend, altered by Greg Gowden and distributed by Irregular House Australia, and a volume of The Best At any point Sports Composing . . . Writing about sports for 200 years.
Additionally, she contributed a chapter to Destroying the Joint titled “Women talk back: Why Ladies Need To Impact The World, altered by Jane Caro. In 2011, Harmer established the Australian women’s news and opinion website The Hoopla. It shut in spring 2015