Sarah Harris | |
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![]() Harris at the Anchorman 2 premiere in 2013 | |
Born | [1] | 13 July 1981
Nationality | Australian |
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Years active | 1997−present |
Known for | The Project |
Spouse | Tom Ward (m. 2014;div. 2021) |
Children | 2 |
Sarah Harris (born 13 July 1981) [1] is an Australian television presenter and journalist. She most recently was a co-host on Network 10's The Project and previously co-hosted the morning talk show Studio 10 . [2]
Harris grew up in a block of housing commission flats in Mount Druitt, a western suburb of Sydney. [3] She has one younger brother. Her father died of prostate cancer at 50. [4] She is of Croatian descent through her grandparents, who emigrated to Australia. [5]
Harris studied journalism and international business at Queensland University of Technology.[ citation needed ] Her journalism career started in 1997 at the Seven Network in Brisbane, where she filed reports for Seven News and later Today Tonight .[ citation needed ]
In June 2001, she joined Prime Gold Coast News where she was a freelance television reporter and presenter. She then moved back to the Seven Network in Brisbane where she was a cadet news reporter and writer.[ citation needed ]
In 2002, Harris joined the Nine Network and became a reporter, researcher, and fill-in presenter on Extra . She also joined National Nine News as a reporter and Today . She delivered live reports from the scene of the Cairns Tilt Train derailment in November 2004, as well as Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s funeral in Kingaroy in 2005. She left Today in 2005 to become a reporter and fill-in presenter on National Nine News in Brisbane.[ citation needed ]
In 2007, Harris moved to Sydney to become a Today reporter and a fill-in news presenter. She was also a fill-in news presenter on Nine Morning News , Nine Afternoon News , Nine News Sydney and Weekend Today .[ citation needed ]
In 2012, Harris was the main fill-in presenter for Sonia Kruger on Mornings . She also filled in for Leila McKinnon on Weekend Today whilst she was on maternity leave.[ citation needed ]
In August 2013, she resigned from the Nine Network to join Network Ten's then new morning program, Studio 10 as a co-host with Ita Buttrose, Joe Hildebrand and Jessica Rowe. [6] She waw also a fill-in host on Network Ten program The Project .
In November 2014, Harris was announced as the host of Shark Tank . [7]
In February 2016, Harris was welcomed to the No Agenda round table as a Black Dame by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. [8]
On 23 November 2022, Sarah announced that she would be leaving Studio 10 after hosting the show for nine years to become a new co-host of The Project in 2023 after the departure of the show's longest running co-host Carrie Bickmore in December 2022. [2] [9] In June 2025, The Project was cancelled by 10, with Harris subsequently leaving the network. [10]
Harris married information technology specialist Tom Ward in Sydney in 2014. [11] Harris and Ward have two children. [12] In March 2021, Harris announced that she and Ward are "taking time apart however we remain good friends and deeply committed to co-parenting our two beautiful boys". [13]
Harris prefers 90s fashion, especially Lululemon tights. Her favorite designers are Scanlan Theodore, Witchery, Cue, Carla Zampatti and Bianca Spender. [14]