Biography of Meshel Laurie
Meshel Laurie is an Australian podcaster and novelist. Laurie and Josh Kinal co-hosted Enough Rope on 3RRR in 2000.
How old is Meshel Laurie? – Age
She is 49 years old on May 29, 2022. She was born in 1973 in Toowoomba, Australia.
Meshel Laurie Parents
She is the daughter of Mary Therese Laurie and Graham Laurie.
Meshel Laurie Kids
Laurie tweeted in June 2009 that she was expecting twins who would arrive this summer. The birth of Laurie’s twins, a boy named Louis and a girl named Dali, born on November 20, 2009, was announced on November 23, 2009.
Meshel Laurie weight loss (How did Meshel Laurie lose weight?)
In 2021, she unveiled her remarkable weight reduction makeover. At the end of 2016, she opted for bariatric surgery (gastric bypass). She said having to go that far to restrain her body was uncomfortable, but she would rather be ashamed than not be able to walk. In some ways, she considers herself lucky to have received such strong messages from her body that she needed to restart her health burner while there was still time to do so.
Meshel Laurie Podcast
Laurie started the Nitty Gritty Committee interview podcast in 2015. She began producing and hosting the Australian True Crime podcast in November 2016, working with novelist and journalist Emily Webb. She traveled to South Sudan in September 2018 for a Season 4 episode of SBS’s Go Back To Where You Came From.
Meshel Laurie’s Breakups
2017 saw the release of his book, Buddhism for Breakups, by Blank Inc.
Meshel Laurie Career
Laurie and Josh Kinal co-hosted Enough Rope on 3RRR in 2000. It was a weekly comedy show that featured comedy tracks, a look at the comedy industry, and interviews with a variety of guests, including Wil Anderson, Daniel Kitson, Simon Munnery, and Rachel Berger. Adam Richard and Toby Sullivan were series regulars. In late 2002, the show was controversially discontinued.
Laurie presented Stand Up!, an ABC TV comedy show, in 2004. She appeared on the national variety show Rove Live. Laurie has appeared on The Glass House, Spicks and Specks, Good News Week, ADbc, The Circle, Studio 10, The Project and Hughesy, We Have a Problem, among other shows.
Laurie joined Nova 106.9 in Brisbane in 2005 as a founding breakfast presenter on Meshel, Ash, Kip and Luttsy, which quickly became Brisbane’s top rated breakfast programme. Over the years Ash, Kip and Luttsy left and new presenters such as Tim Blackwell and Marty Sheargold joined Laurie. Meshel, Tim and Marty continued the breakfast until August 2011 when the show moved to Melbourne and began broadcasting nationwide on Drive on Nova FM.
Laurie co-hosted This Week Live with Dave Thornton, Tommy Little and Tom Gleeson in 2013. In October 2013, Nova 100 announced that she would co-host Meshel & Tommy with Tommy Little, taking over from Hughesy & Kate. The show premiered in December 2013. Laurie was replaced on the record by Kate Ritchie in January 2014, joining Tim Blackwell and Marty Sheargold. Meshel revealed in October 2015 that she would be leaving Nova 100 at the end of the year to co-host Matt & Meshel on KIIS 101.1 with Matt Tilley. She also co-hosted the KIIS Network’s 3 p.m. pickup with Katie ‘Monty’ Dimond. The Australian Radio Network said in October 2017 that Matt & Meshel would not be renewed in 2018.
Laurene returned to radio in January 2021, anchoring Breakfast with Adam Straney and Damien Leith on Wave FM in Wollongong while Jade Tonta is on maternity leave. Laurie published CSI Told You Lies: Giving Victims a Voice Through Forensics in August 2021.
