Drysdale at Australian Skeptics National Convention 2014
Born
Kirsten Kathleen Drysdale
1984 (age 39–40)
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Nationality
Australian
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.
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]
^WTFAQ. Series 1. Episode 4. 20 September 2023. Event occurs at 3:58. ABC.
^"Who Do They Think They Are?". The Checkout. Series 3. Episode 3.
^ abFrost, Pamela (16 March 2013). "TV hit for local lass on The Checkout". Daily Mercury. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
^Hegarty, Laura (27 February 2014). "Checkout our home grown talent". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^"Kirsten Drysdale, Steele Saunders, Derek". Boxcutters (Podcast). 21 March 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^"Talking Shop – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)".
^"Kirsten Drysdale". 25 June 2014.
^"Reputation Rehab – ABC iview". 21 October 2020.
^"I Built No Schools in Kenya by Kirsten Drysdale". penguin.com.au. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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