Jesse Mulligan | |
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Career | |
Show | The Project |
Station | Three |
Country | New Zealand |
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Jesse Robert Turi Mulligan is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster and writer. From 2015 he has hosted Afternoons on RNZ National. He was a co-host for The Project on Three from 2017 to 2023. He is also the Dining out editor at the Viva lifestyle magazine published by NZME.
While studying for a law degree from Waikato University, Mulligan hosted radio and television programmes broadcast by the Waikato Student Union. Thereafter he worked as a commercial radio host in Wellington and Auckland, as a comedian, and in public relations and corporate communications. [1] [2]
Mulligan was a writer and then regular panellist on Three's comedy gameshow 7 Days . [3] In 2013, he started as one of the three hosts on TVNZ 1's new current affairs show, Seven Sharp . He left the show on 17 April 2014, after his co-hosts Ali Mau and Greg Boyed left at the end of 2013 and were replaced by Toni Street and Mike Hosking, as part of refreshing the show. [4] In 2014 and 2015, he hosted comedy show Best Bits . [5]
He succeeded Simon Mercep as the host of Afternoons on RNZ National in July 2015. [1] [6] A weekly feature of Afternoons during Mulligan's tenure has been Critter of the Week with Forest & Bird chief executive and former Department of Conservation threatened species ambassador Nicola Toki. [7]
In 2017, Mulligan started co-hosting Three's new current affairs show, The Project , and continued in that role until the show was cancelled at the end of 2023. [8]
As of 2024 [update] he is Dining out editor at Viva magazine [9] and was previously a food writer for Metro magazine.
Mulligan is the son of Nick Mulligan, who was the Values Party candidate in Hamilton East at the 1975 general election. [10] Jesse Mulligan is married to psychologist Victoria Dawson-Wheeler and has four children. [2] [11]
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