Jesse Mulligan

Jesse Mulligan
Jesse Mulligan in 2012
Career
Show	The Project
Station	Three
Country	New Zealand
Previous shows	Best Bits Seven Sharp 7 Days

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.

Career

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.

Personal life

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]}

See also

• List of New Zealand television personalities

References

1. "Jesse Mulligan to host Afternoons". RNZ. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
2. "The making of Jesse Mulligan". The Spinoff. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
3. Jones, Bridget (18 February 2018). "The Project's Jesse Mulligan: 'I almost never have arguments with people'". Stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 3 June 2018.
4. Bruce, Greg (6 February 2016). "Jesse Mulligan opens up about the dark days of Seven Sharp". The New Zealand Herald . ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 3 June 2018.
5. "Jesse Mulligan: 'I'm ruthless' on Best Bits". The New Zealand Herald . 26 February 2018. ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 3 June 2018.
6. "Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan". RNZ . Retrieved 31 December 2019.
7. "Critter of the Week". RNZ . Retrieved 28 August 2019.
8. Greive, Duncan (4 December 2023). "The last day of The Project NZ felt like the end of something else, too". The Spinoff. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
9. "About Viva". NZ Herald. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
10. "Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: election campaign songs of the 1980 (audio clip at 9:45)". RNZ. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
11. "Jesse Mulligan: 'Don't call me crazy for having four kids'". Newshub . 26 November 2018. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2019.