Andrew Daddo

Actor and presenter

Daddo started his television career while still at university. ^[7] In 1987 he began co-hosting music show The Factory with Alex Papps, broadcast on ABC TV on Saturday mornings, from 1987 to 1989.^[6] He was also a host on Countdown Revolution in 1989.^[8] He then moved to New York in 1989^[7] for a role as VJ on the American MTV network, but was sacked in 1991.^[9]

He relocated to Australia in 1992,^[7] and took on two acting roles in Round the Twist and Cluedo^[8] playing Professor Plum in the latter.^[7]

In 1994, Daddo presented two episodes of British travel series Globe Trekker (also known as Lonely Planet) in 1994.^[10] The following year, he hosted Australia's Funniest People, the TV Week Logie Awards and World's Greatest Commercials, the latter until 1996.^[6][7]

In 1999, Daddo hosted Kidspeak, the Australian adaptation of Kids Say the Darndest Things,^[6] alongside Ernie Dingo.^[11] He next worked as co-anchor on the Seven Network’s 11AM until mid-2000,^[7] when he began co-hosting Olympic Sunrise alongside Johanna Griggs, during the Sydney 2000 Olympics.^[6] In 2002, he reunited with Ernie Dingo as a presenter on the Seven Network's The Great Outdoors until 2008, after previously having hosted the show in 1994.^[12]

Daddo was the host of the television series The One which premiered on the Seven Network in July 2008.^[13] During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he hosted an Olympics-oriented morning talk show, Yum Cha.^[14] In February of that year, Daddo was appointed presenter of ABC Radio Sydney's evening program.^[15][16] In May 2009, he resigned from the ABC to co-host live news-style series This Afternoon on the Nine Network,^[17] which was axed after two and a half weeks on air, due to poor ratings.^[18] He also hosted the Ozspell Australian Spelling Championships.^[7]

Daddo's radio hosting duties have also included the summer afternoons program on Sydney's 2UE,^[16] Bay 13 Radio Show (3RRR), 3AW Melbourne, the Sunday Morning Fishing Show on 2SM Super Radionetwork, ABC Radio Canberra and Mamamia’s This Glorious Mess podcast.^[8]

Daddo was the narrator of the first season of reality series The Apprentice Australia in 2009^[19] and has been the narrator of RBT: Random Breath Testing since 2010.^[20]

In 2015, Daddo was a contestant on the reality competition show: I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.^[21][22] He was the fifth contestant to be evicted.^[23] In 2016 he hosted The New Golf Show, a golf television broadcast on Fox Sports.^[8] He has also hosted Channel 9’s Subaru's Great Australian Detour for several seasons, where he explores terrain across the country in a Subaru Forester SUV.^[24][25]

In 2022, Daddo collaborated with Nova to launch the podcast series So You Want to Make a TV Show with brother Cameron Daddo, which detailed the creative process behind making scripted television.^[26]

Daddo also works as an MC. He has presented the International Advertising Festival in Cannes several times, Ian Thorpe's Foundation launch, the John Eales Medal, The Lions v Wallabies series and The Tri Nations.^[27]

Author

Daddo is also an accomplished author, having written numerous books, including picture books, chapter books, short story collections, young adult novels and adult non-fiction.^[7][28] His first book, Sprung! was a collection of comical short stories about a character called Fergus Kipper, the protagonist of a series which continued in Sprung Again!, You’re Dropped!, Dacked!, and Flushed!^[29]

In 2006, he wrote It's All Good, a memoir about Ray O'Neal, who he'd met in 1991 and set off with on a motorcycle trip across America, forming a great friendship in the process. O'Neal died in an accident in 2004, leaving behind a wife and a young daughter, after which Daddo wrote the memoir about his time with Ray.^[9]

In 2019, Daddo released the first book from his middle-grade children's adventure series, Atticus Van Tasticus, about a 10-year-old boy whose grandma gifts him a pirate ship. He collaborated on the project with illustrator Stephen Michael King, with whom he had previously worked on the book Whatcha Building?^[30]

Other children’s titles include Good Night Me, Youse Two, Muffin Top, Grandma’s Guide to Happiness, Stuff Happens: Ned,^[31][32] Wet Cement, Creepy Cool, Dog of a Day and The Girl Trap.^[29]

Daddo also had a regular column in Australian Golf Digest and Sydney's The Sun-Herald.^[16]

Film

Television

Theatre

Radio

Bibliography