The sweetheart of Sky News Australia, Jacinta Tynan is a woman of several talents. The Australian television personality is a renowned news presenter, journalist, columnist and an accomplished author of her books Good Man Hunting and Some Girls Do. Born in the early 1970s, Jacinta has been a darling of Australian television for more than a decade and has also made the popular list as an actress in addition to being a star presenter on television. She is a sought after celebrity in Australia and has a huge fan base who devoutly idolize her in the down under.
A proud mother to her two amazing sons, Jacinta writes frequently on her experience of raising her kids and motherhood in general. Her first born son named Jasper Jerome Pep Timms was born in 2009 right after she presented for Sky News Australia. The new mother shared her experience with motherhood in media and delightfully wrote in a Sydney Morning Herald article that she was finding motherhood to be a breeze. She didn’t find it so easy the second time around because her second son was born only a little under 19 months later her first delivery. Her second son is named Otis Liam Francis Timms. The Yowie Bay native shares her sons with her life partner businessman Liam Timms who has appeared on the television show Catalyst on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Jacinta has been a regular presenter for Sky News Australia for over a decade. She started working at the network in 2005 after bidding her goodbye to her previous employer ABC television. A veteran in her field at present time, Jacinta stepped into professional journalism as a weather reporter for Win TV. At ABC Television she was able to get more exposure appearing on ABC News as well as the 7:30 Report. She also became an anchor for the Australia Network. A former student at Charles Sturt University, she graduated as a broadcast journalism major and also reported for her campus radio. She is also known for her work with Seven Network’s Today Tonight and Access Hollywood. She briefly settled in Canada to attend the Vancouver Film School after which she moved to London where she produced Associated Press Television News. In 1997, she relocated to Australia where she was hired by ABC TV. At ABC TV, she presented for ABC Asia Pacific which broadcasted internationally and was also a reporter for National News, World at Noon and Weekend News. She has also tried her hands at acting with short films. At the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, she starred in the play, The Vagina Monologues and also appeared in Closer at the Darlinghurst Theatre Company. The Aussie beauty has also appeared on Weekend Sunrise, Seven Network’s The Morning Show, Kerri-Anne, First Tuesday Book Club, Insight and was one of the women to be featured by Today Tonight for their Most Influential Women in Australia special.
Jacinta discovered her passion for writing at an early age. The renowned television face is a published writer of two non-fiction books. Her first effort Good Man Hunting was published by Random House in 2005 which she followed with Some Girls Do: My Life as a Teenager in 2007, published by Allen and Unwin. As a popular columnist, her words have appeared in several Australian publications such as The Sun Herald and The Sunday Telegraph. Jacinta is a supporter of SISTER2sister and is an Australian Day Ambassador.
A staple member of Sky News Australia since 2005, Jacinta Tynan is one of the most recognized women in Australian television. She has been successful as a news anchor, presenter, actress, author, column writer and her most proud achievement, a loving mother.