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

Early life Daddo was born in Melbourne on 18 February 1967. He was one of five children to parents Peter and Bronwen Daddo, growing up alongside older sister Belinda, older brother Cameron, identical twin brother, Jamie (who is an artist) and younger brother Lochie. Cameron and Lochie are also actors and television presenters.

Daddo began his education at Mt Eliza Primary School and in year seven moved to Peninsula Grammar. After a short stint at the grammar school, the Daddo family moved away and he continued his education at Millburn Junior High in New Jersey, USA. Returning to Australia, he spent the last two and a half years of his schooling at Melbourne Grammar School. Daddo holds an Arts degree from Monash University. majoring in Politics and History.

Career

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

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

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

In 1999, Daddo hosted Kidspeak, the Australian adaptation of Kids Say the Darndest Things, alongside Ernie Dingo. He next worked as co-anchor on the Seven Network's 11AM until mid-2000, when he began co-hosting Olympic Sunrise alongside Johanna Griggs, during the Sydney 2000 Olympics. 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.

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

Daddo's radio hosting duties have also included the summer afternoons program on Sydney's 2UE, 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.

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

In 2015, Daddo was a contestant on the reality competition show: I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. He was the fifth contestant to be evicted. In 2016 he hosted The New Golf Show, a golf television broadcast on Fox Sports. 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.

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.

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.

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. 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!

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.

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?

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

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

Personal life Daddo currently resides in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, with wife Jacquie and their three children.

Credits

Film Year Title Role Station 1993 Body Melt Johnno Feature film 2003 Ned Doctor Feature film Trouble Down Under Caesar the Cattle Dog Animated feature film (pre-production)

Television Year Title Role Station Ref. Countdown Revolution Presenter 1987–1989 The Factory Host 8 episodes 1990 A Kink in the Picasso Nick Rosa TV movie Early 1990s MTV USA VJ / Host 1992 Round the Twist Ghost Matthew Season 2, 13 episodes Cluedo Professor Plum Seasons 1–2, 21 episodes 1993 The Great Outdoors Presenter 1 episode 1994 Lonely Planet Traveller 2 episodes 1995–1996 The World's Greatest Commercials Host 1999 Kidspeak Co-host (with Ernie Dingo) All-Star Squares Panellist 11AM Co-Anchor 2000 Olympic Sunrise Host Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal Presenter TV special 1995–2005 Carols in the Domain Co-Host TV special 2008 The One: The Search for Australia’s Most Gifted Psychic Host Seasons 1–2 Yum Cha Host 2009 This Afternoon Host 12 episodes The Apprentice Australia Narrator Season 1, 10 episode 2010–2024 RBT Narrator Seasons 1-13 2014 Save Your Life Tonight Host Studio 10 Guest Host 2015 I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Australia Contestant Season, 5th contestant eliminated The Lucky Country Host 4 episodes 2016 The New Golf Show Host 2017–2018 Clash of the Collectables Narrator 6 episodes Great Australian Detours Host

Theatre Year Title Role Notes Ref. 1993 Ladies' Night Barry Gateway National Theatre, Melbourne, The Tivoli, Brisbane 2004 Sprung! Writer Earl Arts Centre, Launceston, Mt Isa Civic Centre, Darwin Entertainment Centre, Glen St Theatre, Sydney, IMB Theatre, Wollongong with Monkey Baa Productions

Radio Year Title Role Station Ref. Bay 13 Radio Show Host 3RRR Melbourne Radioactive Radio Show Host Host 3AW Sunday Morning Fishing Show Host 2SM Super Radio Nework 666 ABC Radio Canberra Host ABC Radio Canberra Summer Afternoon Host 2UE Macquarie Sports Radio 2008–2009 Sydney Evening Program Host ABC Radio Sydney 2015–? This Glorious Mess Co-host Mamamia Podcast Network 2020–2025 Golf – Podcast Host Apple Podcasts 2022 So You Want to Make a TV Show Co-host (with Cameron Daddo) Nova podcast 2025 Weekend Evenings Presenter ABC Radio 2025 NSW Afternoons Presenter ABC Radio

Bibliography Year Title Credit Publisher Ref. 2001 Sprung! Author Hodder Headline Australia 2002 Sprung Again! Author Hachette Book Group Creepy Cool Author Hodder Headline Australia Writing in Wet Cement Author Hachette Book Group 2003 Dog of a Day Author Hodder Headline Australia You're Dropped! Author Hachette Book Group 2004 Girl Trap Author Flushed! Author Dacked! Author Chewing the Seatbelt Author Walker Books Ltd 2005 Youse Two Author Hachette Book Group 2006 Good Night Me Author Muffin Top Author HarperCollins It's All Good Author Hodder Headline Australia 2007 Laugh Even Louder! Contributor (for Camp Quality) Scholastic Australia Pty Limited That Aussie Christmas Book Author Run, Kid, Run! Author HarperCollins 2010 Skoz the Dog: Ready, Steady… Kaboom! Author Skoz the Dog: All At Sea Author Skoz the Dog: Up in the Air Author Skoz the Dog: Leader of the Pack Author Cheeky Monkey Author 2011 I Do It Author 2012 Daddy's Cheeky Monkey Author Monster Author 2013 First Day Author 2014 Check on Me Author Stuff Happens: Ned Author Penguin Books 2015 When I Grow Up Author HarperCollins 2016 One Step Author Penguin Books 2017 Whatcha Building? Author HarperCollins 2018 Old Friends, New Friends Author Just Breathe Author Penguin Books 2019 A Lot of Stuff Happens Author (with Oliver Phommavanh, William Kostakis & Adrian Beck) Penguin Random House Australia Atticus Van Tasticus Author Penguin Books 2020 Atticus Van Tasticus 2: The Map of Half Maps Author Atticus Van Tasticus 3: The Treasure of Treasures Author 2023 Grandma’s Guide to Happiness Author HarperCollins Poo Face Author (with Jonathan Bentley) Penguin Books 2025 Fart Face Grandpa's Guide to Happiness Author HarperCollins 2026 Bitza Book 1 Author Penguin Books Bitza Book 2 Author

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