Melissa Doyle is a television presenter, author, and journalist from Australia.
She is known for previously co-hosting the Seven Network’s breakfast television program Sunrise alongside David Koch. She is seen hosting the Weekend Breakfast on Smooth FM, and the reboot of This is Your Life.
She has joined the Nine Network and is seen narrating a new series, Australia Behind Bars, based on the show’s British version.
Who Is Melissa Doyle’s Husband, John Dunlop?
Melissa Doyle is married to her husband, John Dunlop.
John Dunlop is currently the Partner & Executive Director of The FrontRow Group. He began working in The FrontRow Group in 2014.
The FrontRow Group is an agency that matches businesses with event, hospitality, and sponsorship properties. Similarly, it also helps companies to leverage their investment.
He went to the University of Canberra in 1988 and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, Sports, and Management in 1990. He also went to the Australian National University and got an Honours degree in English and Political Science in 1987.
According to his Linkedin profile, John began his career by working as an Executive Director of ACT Swimming Incorporated. He worked as the Executive Director for about three years.
John was then seeing working in the ACT Softball Association as their Executive Director, where he worked from 1993 to 1995.
He also has experience working in Commercial Marketing atPGA of Australia. Dunlop worked in PGA Australia for about fourteen year and six months. While working with the PGA Australia he was member of the Senior Management Team and used to report to the CEO.
His responsibilities included Commercial Operations, sponsorship, marketing, media rights and internal and external communications.
He was seen working as the Director, Commercial and Marketing in V8 Supercars Australia for about one year and five months. He also has experience working as the Managing Director of The Madmen Group Pty Ltd and is still active in this position since July 2009.
John is now working in the The FrontRow Group as the Partner & Executive Director.
Melissa Doyle’s Married Life
Melissa Doyle has married her husband, John, for over two decades.
She got married to her husband, John, in 1995. The couple’s 27th anniversary falls in November this year. When dating, John used to leave love notes for others on her car windscreen or hidden in her apartment.
He also gave her a lovebird for his lovebird, and after dating for eighteen months, they got engaged.
John has been a supportive husband. Melissa shared that when she needs to travel to various places during her work as a Seven News TV journalist. John used to manage everything at home in her absence.
She shared that the sacrifices that they both have made for each other align in both directions. Their romance and married life have been going well in the past and seem to be going strong in the future too.
How did Melissa Doyle meet her husband, John Dunlop?
Melissa met her husband, John, when she was 23 and was working as a journalist.
John, at that time, was working as a sports marketing manager. John invited her to participate in a celebrity swimming race in Canberra, but she turned down the invitation.
After the turndown event, John asked Mel to make it up to him by going out on a date.
She accepted his offer, and their romance began. So, in this way, their love story began, and they married each other in the end. She was seen talking about her relationship with her husband in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2014.
While talking about her husband, there was all praise regarding him. She shared that her husband, John, was a nice, decent human.
Similarly, she shared that he looks fantastic, and she is attracted to him in all sorts of ways. Melissa and John are also parents of their two children, son Nick and daughter Natalia.
Who Is Melissa Doyle?
Melissa Doyle is a journalist who is known for hosting various tv shows.
She began her career by working at a radio station. She went to the Pymble Ladies College. She went to Charles Sturt University and studied communication. During her studies at the University, she worked as a broadcaster with the on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM.
Her career shifted when she got the cadetship at WIN Television’s Canberra bureau in 1990. She was later seen working as their weather presenter.
The journalist was later seen moving to Prime Television in 1993. In Prime Television, she was seen working as a news anchor and general reporter. She later joined Seven Network and was seen working as a Canberra-based political reporter. She then moved to Sydney and was seen reading the news at 11 AM.
She was seen co-hosting Carols in the Domain with Matt Whit in December 2013. She was seen replacing Chris Bath on Sunday Night and Seven News Sydney due to the resignation of Chris from Seven Network.
Melissa was seen working with Michael Usher to host Seven News: The latest throughput the COVID-19 crisis. She was also seen working as the permanent Monday presenter of the bulletin until August.
Melissa announced that she would leave Seven Network after 25 years with the network in 2020.
She released her first book, The Working Mothers Survival Guide, in October 2007. The book was co-written with Jo Scard and was published by Allen & Unwin.
The book sold over 10,000 copies in its first print run.
She released her second book, Alphabet Soup, in 2014, and it was the biggest-selling Australian memoir in the market for a few months.
Melissa returned with her new book called 15 seconds of Brave in November 2022. She has been doing interviews, book signings, and events for her book. Similarly, she also going on a Book tour of her new book, 15 seconds of Brave.
She is n ambassador for The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, Westmead Children’s Hospital, World Vision, Children’s Cancer Institute, and the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
She is also the National Patron of Make-A-Wish Foundation Australia. Similarly, she is also an ambassador for the Federal Government’s National Road Safety Council. She used to work as chairperson for the GIANTS Foundation Charity.
The GIANTS Foundation Charity was established in 2013, and she worked in the charity until 2018. The journalist was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2016. She was appointed a member due to her service to the community through representational roles like the range of charitable groups and the broadcast media.
She was seen winning Best Newcomer On-Air (Metro) at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards in October 2014. Similarly, she also won Best Music Presenter at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards in October 2018.