Background
In 2005, she gave birth to daughter Bronte, and her brother Angus was born in 2007.
Georgie Gardner lives in Sydney with her husband, Tim, and their two young children.
She has a passion for all things Italian, loves to dabble in photography and the garden, and is a passionate supporter of charities relating to disadvantaged youth, including Red Kite and Oasis.
Education
Gardner was educated at Dalkeith Primary School and St Hilda’s Anglican Girls School.
After completing high school, she spent nearly two years living in Milan where she learned Italian and travelled extensively while nannying for an Italian family.
She returned to Western Australia in 1990 to study at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, completing an associate diploma in performing arts and majoring in media performance.
Career
In 1992, Gardner moved to Newcastle in New South Wales to take up a cadetship at Radio 2NX where she reported, wrote and read the news. In her debut year she was rewarded with radio’s highest award – a RAWARD as Australia’s Best Newcomer to metropolitan radio.
She moved to Sydney’s top-rating FM station 2DAY FM’s newsroom in 1994, spending three years as the drive-time newsreader before joining the Ten Network as a television news reporter and fill-in presenter in 1997.
In 1998, Gardner moved to the Seven Network to read the Late News. She went on to co-host the network’s early morning SUNRISE program for two years.
Gardner joined the Nine Network in July 2002 to present various news bulletins as well as the weather on the 6.00pm weekday news.
In 2004, the Nine Network added a semi-national news bulletin at 4.30 pm, National Nine News Afternoon Edition, for which Gardner was the original presenter.
Gardner has formerly worked at Network Ten as a reporter and presenter for Ten News. Her most prominent national role came with the Seven Network as co-host for Seven News Sunrise where she presented with Mark Beretta before the program was changed from morning news to morning public affairs programming. She held this position for 2 years before acting as a fill-in presenter for Seven News and Sky News Australia.
She is the only Australian news presenter to have presented the late news bulletin on each commercial TV station, having filled in as presenter of the Ten Late News, full-time presenter of Seven Late News, and then as a substitute presenter of Nightline, the late night version of Nine News.
In 2006, Gardner replaced Leila McKinnon as presenter of National Nine News Morning Edition. In December 2006 she replaced Sharyn Ghidella as news presenter on Today, as Ghidella had resigned and moved to the Seven Network to present Seven News in Brisbane. On Monday 6 August 2007, Gardner returned to Today after 6 months maternity leave.
On 3 October 2007, Gardner was unable to continue reading the news bulletins due to the death of former West Coast Eagles star Chris Mainwaring, a friend from Perth.
In July 2009, Gardner replaced Mark Ferguson as the Nine News Sydney weekend presenter, as it was revealed that Ferguson had signed with the Seven Network.