Read the complete write-up of Lisa Wilkinson net worth, age, husband, children, height, family, parents, tv shows as well as other information you need to know.
Introduction
Lisa Wilkinson is an Australian television presenter and journalist. She is currently host of Network 10 news-current affairs and talk show The Projects.
Wilkinson has previously co-hosted the Nine Network’s breakfast television program, Today, with Karl Stefanovic from 2007 until 2017 and Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network from 2005 until 2007.
Early life
| Name | Lisa Wilkinson |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Television presenter, Journalist |
| Age | 62 years |
| Height | 1.68m |
| Husband | Peter FitzSimons |
Lisa Wilkinson AM was born on December 19, 1959 (age 62 years) in Wollongong, Australia. She is the daughter of Raymond Wilkinson and Beryl Wilkinson. Lisa grew up in Campbelltown, in Sydney’s Western Suburbs, and attended Campbelltown High School (now Campbelltown Performing Arts High School).
Career
Lisa Wilkinson began her career working for the magazine Dolly. At age 21, she was offered the job as its editor. During her time there she became known for discovering young female talent, including a then-unknown Nicole Kidman.
After tripling the magazine’s circulation, she was personally approached by Kerry Packer to become editor of the Australian Consolidated Press women’s lifestyle magazine, Cleo. One of her first acts was to remove the magazine’s infamous male centerfold. During her time as editor, she mentored up-and-coming journalists such as Mia Freedman and Deborah Thomas.
Check Out: Jackie O net worth
Over ten years Lisa Wilkinson became the title’s longest-serving editor, and during her tenure, there was unprecedented circulation growth for the magazine. Wilkinson went on to become Cleo’s International Editor-in-Chief as it opened title in New Zealand and Asia.
Wilkinson was Editor-At-Large of The Australian Women’s Weekly from 1999 to 2007. In August 2015 Wilkinson was asked by Ariana Huffington to become the Australian Editor-at-large of The Huffington Post. A role she held until 2018.
Her television career began in the late 1990s when she became a regular panelist on Network Ten and Foxtel’s Beauty and the Beast. During the 2000 Summer Olympics, she (along with Duncan Armstrong) co-hosted The Morning Shift on the Seven Network. In April 2005, Wilkinson began hosting Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network with Chris Reason, later with Andrew O’Keefe.
On 10 May 2007, it was confirmed that Wilkinson was to co-host Today on the Nine Network after Jessica Rowe left the network and she began appearing on Today on 28 May 2007. This was Stefanovic’s fifth female co-host in just over two years. In 2016, the duo took the show to number one in the breakfast TV wars for the first time in 12 years.
On 16 October 2017, Lisa Wilkinson resigned from the Nine Network and Today due to a contract dispute with nine management over the significant gender pay gap that existed between her and long-time co-host Karl Stefanovic. after ten years with the network, effective immediately. Wilkinson herself announced she was leaving on Twitter and then just over an hour later announced on Twitter that she was joining Channel Ten.
In her 2021 memoir, It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This, Wilkinson revealed that she had in fact been sacked over her request for a fairer pay structure at the Network. However, in 2018, she joined The Project, a nightly TV current affairs program on Network 10.
From 2008 to 2016, Wilkinson was the co-host of the Nine Network’s Carols by Candlelight, replacing long-time host Ray Martin when Martin semi-retired. Wilkinson’s co-host from 2008 until 2012 was Karl Stefanovic, and in 2013 she was joined by David Campbell. She was replaced by Sonia Kruger in 2017 after she left the Nine Network.
Lisa Wilkinson gave the Andrew Olle Memorial Lecture on the treatment of women in and by the media in 2013. She was the first female journalist to give the speech since Jana Wendt in 1997.
Wilkinson was remarked on by The Daily Mail for wearing on air a blouse she’d worn four months before in 2017. Her co-host, Karl Stefanovic, had previously worn the same suit every day for a year without attracting notice. Wilkerson posted a tweet criticizing the sexism and wore the blouse on air the next day, sardonically writing “my greatest legacy to the annals of female news broadcasting history will likely be that I dared to wear the same outfit two days in a row on national TV”. Other male and female Today Show hosts also wore the blouse on-air in the following days.
Check Out: Grace Tame net worth
She was named a two-time finalist in October 2021 in the Walkley Awards for her ground-breaking interview with political staffer Brittany Higgins in which she alleged being raped on Federal Government Minister Linda Reynold’s office couch in 2019. That story led to a full cultural review by Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, into the workplace treatment of women in Parliament House.
In 2017, Wilkinson’s portrait by artist Peter Smeeth was a finalist in the Archibald Prize and winner of the Packing Room Prize.
Husband
Lisa Wilkinson is married to author, journalist, and former rugby international Peter FitzSimons, they had their wedding on 26 September 1992. The couple has two sons Louis FitzSimons, Jake FitzSimons, and one daughter Billi FitzSimons. She published her autobiography in 2021: It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This.
Wilkinson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2016 Australia Day Honours list for significant service to the print and broadcast media as a journalist and presenter, and to a range of youth and women’s health groups.
Lisa Wilkinson net worth
How much is Lisa Wilkinson worth? Lisa Wilkinson’s net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a television presenter and journalist. Wilkinson’s successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and most influential television presenters and journalists in Australia.