The Glen Innes Examiner has scored a coup, collaborating with Best Employment to bring well-known television celebrity Kerri-Anne Kennerley to front the 2014 Glen Innes Examiner Business Awards presentation dinner at the Glen Innes and District Services Club on September 5.
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The 2013 awards dinner was a sell-out and the race for tickets this year promises to be even livelier with the news that Kerri-Anne – otherwise known as KAK – will be on hand to help host the event.
Kerri-Anne is one of Australia's most iconic media personalities and has been a favourite with Australian television audiences for more than 30 years, starting in the entertainment industry at the tender age of 13.
She co-hosted the 10 Network’s Good Morning Australia for 11 years from 1981, working with Gordon Elliott, Tim Webster, Terry Willesee and Mike Gibson, before moving on to radio in 1992.
In mid-1995 Kerri-Anne returned to the Ten Network to host and co-produce Monday to Friday with Kerri-Anne, before taking over the Nine Network’s Midday, returning the program to its former glory as the most-watched daytime program on Australian television.
In 1999 Kerri-Anne joined What's Cooking and returned to the Nine Network to host Mornings with Kerri-Anne in October 2002 where she remained until November 2011. In 2012 Kerri-Anne signed with Channel 7 for several projects including appearing on the top rating primetime show Dancing with the Stars.
That same year she was diagnosed with breast cancer, bringing an insider’s perspective to her ongoing support of the Look Good…Feel Better program that helps those battling cancer to work through the physical side-effects of their treatment. She has also become an ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Away from the spotlight, Kerri-Anne is a successful businesswoman. Come September 5 she will be joining local businesswomen (and men) at the Services Club to hand out awards to those businesses and individuals who have made their mark on the Glen Innes Severn community over the past 12 months.
It remains to be seen if she has an opportunity to conduct some dance instruction segments like those with politicians Peter Costello (the Macarena), Cheryl Kernot (cha-cha-cha) and Kevin Rudd (rumba), which remain iconic moments of Australian television.
Tickets for the Glen Innes Examiner Business Awards presentation dinner are $44 for a three-course meal, live entertainment and sponsors bag. They go on sale tomorrow and can be purchased at the Glen Innes Examiner office in Bourke St.
