Andrew Dugald Daddo (born 18 February 1967) is an Australian actor, author and television and radio personality.

Daddo was born inMelbourne on 18 February 1967. He was one of five kids to parents Peter and Bronwen Daddo,^[1] growing up alongside older sister Belinda,^[2] older brotherCameron,^[3] identical twin brother, Jamie (who is an artist)^[4] and younger brotherLochie. Cameron and Lochie are also actors and television presenters.

Daddo began his education at Mt Eliza Primary School and in year seven moved toPeninsula Grammar.^[5] After a short stint at the grammar school, the Daddo family moved away and he continued his education atMillburn Junior High inNew Jersey, USA. Returning to Australia, he spent the last two and a half years of his schooling atMelbourne Grammar School. Daddo holds an Arts degree fromMonash University.^[6] majoring in Politics and History.^[7]

Daddo started his television career while still at university.^[7] In 1987 he began co-hosting music showThe Factory withAlex Papps, broadcast onABC TV on Saturday mornings, from 1987 to 1989.^[6] He was also a host onCountdown Revolution in 1989.^[8] He then moved to New York in 1989^[7] for a role asVJ on the AmericanMTV network, but was sacked in 1991.^[9]

He relocated to Australia in 1992,^[7] and took on two acting roles inRound the Twist andCluedo^[8] playingProfessor Plum in the latter.^[7]

In 1994, Daddo presented two episodes of British travel seriesGlobe Trekker (also known asLonely Planet) in 1994.^[10] The following year, he hostedAustralia's Funniest People, theTV WeekLogie Awards andWorld's Greatest Commercials, the latter until 1996.^[6][7]

In 1999, Daddo hostedKidspeak, theAustralian adaptation ofKids Say the Darndest Things,^[6] alongsideErnie Dingo.^[11] He next worked as co-anchor on theSeven Network’s11AM until mid-2000,^[7] when he began co-hostingOlympic Sunrise alongsideJohanna Griggs, during the Sydney2000 Olympics.^[6] In 2002, he reunited with Ernie Dingo as a presenter on the Seven Network'sThe Great Outdoors until 2008, after previously having hosted the show in 1994.^[12]

Daddo was the host of the television seriesThe One which premiered on theSeven Network in July 2008.^[13] During the2008 Beijing Olympics, he hosted an Olympics-oriented morning talk show,Yum Cha.^[14] In February of that year, Daddo was appointed presenter ofABC Radio Sydney's evening program.^[15][16] In May 2009, he resigned from the ABC to co-host live news-style seriesThis Afternoon on theNine Network,^[17] which was axed after two and a half weeks on air, due to poor ratings.^[18] He also hosted theOzspell Australian Spelling Championships.^[7]

Daddo's radio hosting duties have also included the summer afternoons program on Sydney's2UE,^[16] Bay 13 Radio Show (3RRR),3AW Melbourne, theSunday Morning Fishing Show on2SM Super Radionetwork,ABC Radio Canberra andMamamia’sThis Glorious Mess podcast.^[8]

Daddo was the narrator of the first season of reality seriesThe Apprentice Australia in 2009^[19] and has been the narrator ofRBT: 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 hostedThe New Golf Show, a golf television broadcast onFox Sports.^[8] He has also hostedChannel 9’sSubaru's Great Australian Detour for several seasons, where he explores terrain across the country in aSubaru ForesterSUV.^[24][25]

In 2022, Daddo collaborated withNova to launch the podcast seriesSo You Want to Make a TV Show with brotherCameron Daddo, which detailed the creative process behind making scripted television.^[26]

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

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 inSprung Again!,You’re Dropped!,Dacked!, andFlushed!^[29]

In 2006, he wroteIt'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 bookWhatcha Building?^[30]

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

Daddo also had a regular column inAustralian Golf Digest and Sydney'sThe Sun-Herald.^[16]

Daddo currently resides in theNorthern Beaches of Sydney, with wife Jacquie and their three children.^[22]

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