Costa Georgiadis

Last updated

Costa Georgiadis
Costa Georgiadis Tin Can Bay (cropped).jpg
Georgiadis in 2015
Born (1964-01-01) 1 January 1964 (age 60)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Education University of New South Wales
Occupation(s)Landscape architect, television presenter
Years active2009—present
Employer Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Known for Gardening Australia

Costa Georgiadis (born 1 January 1964) is an Australian author, landscape architect, environmental educator and television presenter. Costa is the third host of ABC television series Gardening Australia after Peter Cundall and Stephen Ryan, and previously appeared as 'Costa the Garden Gnome' in the ABC Kids program Get Grubby TV.

Contents

Early life

Georgiadis was born in Sydney to parents Stan and Anne Georgardis, and grew up in North Bondi on the same street as his grandparents and uncle. He is the youngest of three children. His father, Stan, was an electrician. [1] His paternal grandfather, Constantine Georgiadis was born in Thessaloniki, and arrived in Australia in 1927 via South America. Constantine and wife Julia [2] [3] were market gardeners, and were responsible for fostering Costa's early interest in gardening. [1] [4] [5]

Career

Georgadis worked as a landscaper whilst studying landscape architecture at University of New South Wales, [6] where he developed an interest in sustainability. [7]

From 2009 to 2011, he presented SBS's Costa's Garden Odyssey , a programme that explored the relationship between gardening, sustainability, and spirituality. [8]

On 20 December 2011 the ABC announced that Georgiadis would replace Stephen Ryan as the host of Gardening Australia . [7] [9]

In 2014, Georgiadis starred as 'Costa the Garden Gnome' in Get Grubby TV on ABC Kids. [10] [11] [12]

In 2021, Georgiadis was the host of a six part podcast called Gardening Buds, which is featured in the ABC Kids Listen app. [13] He also published Costa's World: Gardening for the soil, the soul and the suburbs. [14]

In 2023, he began hosting Gardening Australia Junior on ABC Kids. [15] [16] In 2024, Georgiadis was the subject chosen for ABC Radio Brisbane's annual art competition The Bradley. [17]

Awards and nominations

For his hosting role on Gardening Australia , Georgiadis won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Presenter and was nominated for the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the 2019 Logie Awards. [18]

In 2021, Georgiadis won two Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Audience Choice Awards, for Favourite Entertainment Show and Favourite Television Host. [19]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jamie Durie</span> Australian television presenter (born 1970)

Jamie Paul Durie is an Australian horticulturalist and landscape designer, furniture designer, television host, television producer, and author of eleven books on landscape architecture, garden design and lifestyle. He is the founder and director of a design company PATIO Landscape Architecture and Durie Design and also is a 2008 Gold Medal winner at Britain's prestigious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show in Chelsea, London for Australian Garden and designed by Durie. As of 2018, Durie has hosted more than 50 design shows around the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Logie Awards</span> Annual Australian television awards

The Logie Awards is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine TV Week. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Dimitriades</span> Australian actor (born 1973)

Alex Dimitriades is an Australian television, film and stage actor of Greek descent. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Nick Polides in the 1993 romantic comedy film The Heartbreak Kid and as Nick Poulos in the 1994 television teen drama spin-off Heartbreak High. He won critical acclaim for his role as Ari, a troubled second generation Greek Australian in Head On (1998). He won the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for Best Actor for the role and was nominated nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actor. In 2012, he won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor for his role in The Slap.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Ritchie</span> Australian actress, radio presenter, and childrens author (born 1978)

Katherine Leigh Ritchie is an Australian actress, radio presenter, and children's author. She is best known for her long-running role as original character Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera Home and Away, for which she won two Gold Logie awards. She played the character for 20 years, appearing from the pilot episode in 1988 until 2008. She currently co-hosts Nova 96.9's breakfast show Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie alongside Ryan Fitzgerald and Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli. Ritchie was part of Nova FM's national drive show, Kate, Tim & Joel with Tim Blackwell and Joel Creasey from 2014 until 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shaun Micallef</span> Australian comedian, actor, writer and television presenter

Shaun Patrick Micallef is an Australian comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was the host of the satirical news comedy series Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell on the ABC. He also hosted the game show Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation on Channel 10.

Debra Lawrance is an Australian actress. She is best known for her role on Home and Away, as Pippa Ross, which she played from 1990 to 1998 and in a number of subsequent return appearances, the most recent being in 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leah Purcell</span> Indigenous Australian actress, film director and writer

Leah Maree Purcell is an Aboriginal Australian stage and film actress, playwright, film director, and novelist. She made her film debut in 1999, appearing in Paul Fenech's Somewhere in the Darkness, which led to roles in films, such as Lantana (2001), Somersault (2004), The Proposition (2005) and Jindabyne (2006).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claudia Karvan</span> Australian actress (born 1972)

Claudia Karvan is an Australian actress and producer. As a child actor, she first appeared in the film Molly (1983) and followed with an adolescent role in High Tide (1987). She portrayed a teacher in The Heartbreak Kid (1993) – the film was spun off into a TV series, Heartbreak High (1994–1999), with her character taken over by Sarah Lambert. Karvan's roles in television series include The Secret Life of Us (2001–2005), Love My Way (2004–2007), Newton's Law (2017) and Halifax: Retribution (2020). She won Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama at the AFI Awards for her appearance in G.P. (1996). She won two similar AFI Awards for her role in Love My Way and in 2014 for her work in The Time of Our Lives (2013–2014). As a co-producer and co-writer on Love My Way, she won three further AFI Awards for Best Drama Series in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Karvan was inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame in 2007 in acknowledgment of her contributions to the Australian film and television industry. From 2010 to 2011, she starred in the drama series Spirited, which she co-created and was executive producer. She appeared as Judy Vickers in Puberty Blues. Karvan has co-produced House of Hancock and Doctor Doctor (2016–2021). In 2021 she co-created, co-produced and starred in the TV drama series, Bump.

Gardening Australia is an Australian lifestyle television program which suggests and promotes organic and environmentally friendly ways of gardening. It is created by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and airs on ABC TV, as of 2021 in an hour-long weekly show each Friday evening.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Celia Ireland</span> Australian actress

Celia Ireland is an Australian actress. She is best known for her role as Regina Butcher on the television series All Saints and her Logie award winning role as Liz Birdsworth on the prison drama series Wentworth.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kat Stewart</span> Australian actress

Katherine Louise Stewart is an Australian actress who has made numerous appearances in television series, movies and on-stage.

<i>Costas Garden Odyssey</i> Australian TV series or program

Costa's Garden Odyssey is an Australian television documentary series gardening program hosted by landscape architect Costa Georgiadis.

<i>Dirtgirlworld</i> Australian TV series or program

Dirtgirlworld, stylized as dirtgirlworld, is an animated children's television series, created by Cate McQuillen and Hewey Eustace of Mememe Productions. Visually designed by Jean Camden, James Hackett and Cate McQuillen, it was animated by Hackett Films in Australia and Spin Productions in Canada. The show was co-produced by Mememe Productions (Australia) and Decode Entertainment (Canada). The show has 52 eleven-minute episodes commissioned by CBeebies, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Coles Smith</span> Australian actor and musician

Mark Coles Smith, also known by his musical identity as Kalaji, is an Aboriginal Australian actor of stage and screen, sound designer, field recordist, writer, and composer. He is known for his roles in the feature films Last Cab to Darwin (2015), Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), and Occupation: Rainfall (2020), as well as the television series Mystery Road: Origin (2022), and the Canadian series Hard Rock Medical (2013–18).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maree Lowes</span> Australian actress (born 1987)

Maree Lowes is an Australian actress. She is best known for appearing as "dirtgirl" in the multi-award-winning children's TV show dirtgirlworld and Get Grubby TV.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Box</span> Australian actress

Kate Box is an Australian stage, film, and television actress. She is known for her roles as Nicole Vargas in Rake, Lou Kelly in Wentworth, and as Dulcie Collins in Deadloch.

Michael Balk is an Australian actor, television presenter, radio announcer and producer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rahel Romahn</span> Australian actor

Rahel Romahn is a Kurdish-Iraqi born Australian actor. For his performance in The Principal he was nominated for the 2016 AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama and the 2016 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer.

References

  1. 1 2 "Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery: Series 7 Costa Georgiadis". ABC iview. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  2. ↑ "Constantine GEORGIADIS - Naturalization (NAA: A1, 1934/10367)". National Archives of Australia. 1934. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Programs".
  4. ↑ Doreian, Robyn (19 September 2021). "Costa Georgiadis: 'I'm romantically involved with my life'". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  5. ↑ "Greek garden guru Costa Georgiadis is up for a Gold Logie". Neos Kosmos. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  6. ↑ Hutton, Dan (25 April 2012). "Costa Georgiadis – The Greek God of Gardening". The Beast. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  7. 1 2 Costa to host Gardening Australia, ABC, 20 December 2011
  8. ↑ Molitorisz, Sacha (28 March 2012). "TV's gardening revolutionary" . Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Costa Georgiadis". Gardening Australia. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  10. ↑ Release, Media (9 August 2017). "ABC KIDS launches new series 'Get Grubby TV' with dirtgirl, scrapboy and Costa!". TV Blackbox. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "Costa the Garden Gnome visits the Rainforest! | dirtgirlworld | Family-Friendly Interactive Space for Kids". dirtgirlworld. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  12. ↑ "Get Grubby Garden Party with Costa the Garden Gnome". Welcome to Yamba – Live Like a local. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  13. ↑ "Gardening Buds". Kids Listen (ABC). Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  14. ↑ Georgiadis, Costa (2021). Costa's World: Gardening for the soil, the soul and the suburbs. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC Books. ISBN   9780733339998.
  15. ↑ Knox, David (8 September 2023). "Costa gets grubby for Gardening Australia Junior". TV Tonight . Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  16. ↑ Pobjie, Ben (6 September 2023). "Gardening Australia taps a new generation of green-thumb enthusiasts". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  17. ↑ "To beard or not to beard? Artists face dilemma as Costa is named this year's Bradley portrait competition muse". ABC News. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  18. ↑ "Full list of winners for the 2019 TV Week Logie Awards". ABC News. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  19. ↑ "ABC's Costa Georgiadis wins two AACTA awards". Neos Kosmos. 12 December 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.