Kirsten Drysdale

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Kirsten Drysdale
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Drysdale at Australian Skeptics National Convention 2014
Born
Kirsten Kathleen Drysdale

1984 (age 39–40)
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)Television presenter, journalist, actor
Notable work Hungry Beast , The Checkout , The Chaser's Election Desk

Kirsten Kathleen Drysdale [1] (born 1984) [2] is an Australian television presenter and journalist.

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Drysdale was born and raised in Mackay, Queensland. [3]

Before beginning her career at the ABC, Drysdale worked for a production company in Brisbane that produced documentaries and multimedia for museums and exhibitions. During this time, she was also pursuing a sporting career, playing hockey for the Queensland Scorchers. After suffering an injury, she successfully applied for a position in the ABC television comedy and current affairs programme, Project NEXT, which was later renamed Hungry Beast . [4] [5]

She was a researcher and presenter for Hungry Beast and a researcher for The Hamster Wheel , The Hamster Decides and The Gruen Transfer . [3] She has also occasionally appeared on Radio National, where she hosted Talking Shop, a weekly consumer psychology program. The series ended on 5 August 2014. [6] Drysdale has also written for Crikey, The Feed (Australian TV series) and The Global Mail. [7] She was a writer and one of the main presenters on the ABC consumer affairs comedy programme, The Checkout . In 2020 Drysdale co-hosted Reputation Rehab with Zoe Norton Lodge, a TV series discussing the rehabilitation of reputations of people caught in scandals and controversies. [8]

Drysale's memoir, I Built No Schools in Kenya: A Year of Unmitigated Madness, was published in January 2019 by Vintage Australia. [9]

Personal life

Drysdale has three children, the third of which is named Methamphetamine Rules. She had chosen the name to test whether New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages, a public registry, would accept and record the name, which it did. She has since changed his name to something "normal" but has chosen not to reveal it. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ WTFAQ. Series 1. Episode 4. 20 September 2023. Event occurs at 3:58. ABC.
  2. ↑ "Who Do They Think They Are?". The Checkout . Series 3. Episode 3.
  3. 1 2 Frost, Pamela (16 March 2013). "TV hit for local lass on The Checkout". Daily Mercury . Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Hegarty, Laura (27 February 2014). "Checkout our home grown talent". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Kirsten Drysdale, Steele Saunders, Derek". Boxcutters (Podcast). 21 March 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Talking Shop – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)".
  7. ↑ "Kirsten Drysdale". 25 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Reputation Rehab – ABC iview". 21 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "I Built No Schools in Kenya by Kirsten Drysdale". penguin.com.au. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  10. ↑ Beazley, Jordyn (19 September 2023). "Australian journalist calls her baby 'Methamphetamine Rules' as a test of naming regulations". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 20 September 2023.
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