Early life. I just lived in hope that after I did a degree something might happen." Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Of course, Jana Wendt was not just anyone in television. She returned to Channel Nine in 2003 to host Sunday.[7]. 03:24 GMT 14 Jun 2022. On 1 September 2006 it was announced that Wendt would leave the Nine Network. She is disparaging about the new batch of female journalists on commercial television who risk that hard-won credibility by giving in to their employers' demands for celebrity or entertainment stories on supposed news programs. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date. While preparing for the interview, I found a clip on YouTube of her hosting - all big hair and power shoulders - and in the comments section, someone asks, "Is she still alive? Jana Bohumila Wendt ( / jn vnt / YAH-nah VENT; born 9 May 1956) is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television journalist, reporter and writer. "People almost literally have 10-year plans now. The only child of Czech refugees, Wendt says that, if anything, she was emulating her father, who was a part-time journalist for a dissident Czech newspaper. She won the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television In 1992 for her role as host of A Current Affair. Jana Bohumila Wendt (/jn vnt/ YAH-nah VENT; born 9 May 1956) is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television journalist, reporter and writer. AS the Nine Network relaunched its troubled Sunday program yesterday from its Willoughby studios on Sydney's northside, ousted star presenter Jana Wendt was across the other side of the city. (AUSTRALIA OUT) Jana Wendt arrives at the IRC with husband Brendan Ward, 21 May 1997. Is it a solid thing?". If Wendt has her enemies at Nine, it certainly was not evident yesterday as she and husband Brendan Ward partied through the afternoon with loyal friends and supporters. photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages. Melbourne, Australia. Negus, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Her network allegedly planned to replace her with Ellen Fanning, and then Eddie McGuire attempted to "white ant" her, which is an Australian term meaning to subvert her from within. Wendt is the author of A Matter of Principle, based on interviews with notable subjects in politics, society, art, sport, music and architecture, and Nice Work, which examined people who were passionate about their jobs. It had been a while since I was 100 per cent satisfied and content with what was happening on television.". Wendt was then sacked from her regular "Lunch" column for The Bulletin magazine, due to the association the magazine has with the Nine Network; both had the same parent company, PBL. She became of the first presenters for the Australian version of 60 minutes. "I am ensconced in what is for me the new, and deeply personal, occupation of fiction writing. What that camp stamped in Willems was a resilience and dogged determination. "It placed a lot of stress on my private life," he says. ", Wendt laughs loudly. Rumours of Wendt's departure from Nine began in June 2006, when the network announced it would merge its Sunday and Business Sunday programs. Jana Wendt (/ j n v n t / YAH -nah VENT ; born 9 May 1956) is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television . Learn more about age-related macular degeneration. Jana Bohumila Wendt (/ j n v n t / YAH-nah VENT; born 9 May 1956) is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television journalist, reporter and writer. Famous Tv Show Host Jana Wendt was born on May 9, 1956 in Australia. "I think the unfortunate thing is that in the past women have been led to believe that everything will be laid out on a platter for them," she says. Jana Wendt was born on May 9, 1956 in Australia (66 years old). That's the nature of creativity, because creativity is so closely related to nature. 2023 Getty Images. It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail! A Channel 9 star has ripped into Sarah Harris over The Projects crude Jesus sex joke scandal as calls to cancel the show intensify. Forty years after finding fame on national television Wendt recently narrated Deepest Dive: The Search for MH370, her first podcast. If you want to have a family life, then you will have to compromise yourself somewhat for it. Although he was unsuccessful, the pair clicked. In 2004 his marriage broke down from the strain and tension of recording. Alma mater: University of Melbourne: Occupation: Reporter, journalist, writer: Spouse(s) Brendan Ward: Children: Daniel Ward: Wendt says she wanted to know "how much of a life is work" - an intriguing question, given the way her own career has turned out. Wendt enjoys the craft of writing, where - unlike in TV - she has control over the finished product. Wendt was born in Melbourne to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949. In 2004 they recorded Beethoven's concertos and in 2010 it was the Diabelli Variations. ', After months of soul-searching, the heir apparent has laid down a final demand, Focus | Moving Waves, 1971 | Guitarist: Jan Akkerman, 10000 JANAUSHADI KENDRAS BY END OF 2023: MANDAVIYA, NC's Paudel set to become Nepal's nxt Prez after PM ditches Oli's candidate. While some people, like priests, certainly have a true vocation, others, Wendt believes, "live in a halfway house or are able to apply themselves in various areas successfully enough but aren't necessarily called to do one thing". As for Wayne Stuart and his revolutionary pianos, he crafted more than 50 of them before the global financial crisis stalled production at the factory. "I am ensconced in what is for me the new, and deeply personal, occupation of fiction writing. She had joined 60 Minutes in 1982 - handpicked by executive producer Gerald Stone to join George Negus, Ray Martin and Ian Leslie - and soon became one of its biggest stars. Once the nation's highest-paid television personality, Jana Wendt is relishing her new life as a writer. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. ", These days she is much more insouciant about the fate of television current affairs and the end of her own career. She left 60 Minutes in 1986 after four years and went on to host A Current Affair, Dateline on SBS, Witness on Seven and returned to Nine to helm Sunday from 2003 to 2006. Emphasizing on quick redressal of public grievances, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday cautions officials against laxity in filing FIRs and directed the strictest action against criminals. Join the conversation, you are commenting as. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. "It took it to absolutely absurd lengths." Former A Current Affair and 60 Minutes reporter Jana Wendt enjoyed an impressive television career that saw her win the coveted Gold Logie in 1992. When Jana Wendt was the host of the Nine Network's program, which was at the time one of Australia's most respected current affairs shows, she bumped into a colleague in Sydney's CBD. Early life Wendt was born in Melbourne to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949. The idea reminds her of something that Naomi Wolf said when Wendt interviewed her for in 2006 about her book , which was panned by critics for its hokey insights on how to "live, love and see". Perhaps surprisingly for someone who became the prime-time face of a generation, Wendt says she blundered into journalism. Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. That was before she vanished from public life. Jana Wendt with Lindy and Michael Chamberlain in 1988 after they had their convictions overturned over the baby Azaria's disappearance eight years before. Having migrated here from the Netherlands with his family when he was 12, Willems struggled to settle into life at the Fairy Meadow Migrant Hostel, where the tin huts and public amenities were surrounded by barbed wire. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. She had a child named Daniel with producer Brendan Ward. 'We were pretty puffed up and boy did she show us we were wrong,' Leslie said. Wendt presented the Logies Hall of Fame award to the program 60 Minutes at the 2018 Logies. To join the conversation, please Logie Award-winning correspondent and presenter sho has been featured on A Current Affair, Australia's Dateline, and numerous ABC specials. "They are perfect for Beethoven.". All gathered at the trendy Three Weeds Hotel in inner-west Rozelle for a very long lunch. Now I'd say I'm ambitious in that I'm keen to do what I'm doing well, if that's ambition. ", Almost 30 years after she knocked on the door at Network Ten, Jana Wendt's own career in television ultimately ended with an anticlimax. ', Today host Karl Stefanovic says returning to Channel Nine's breakfast show was like 'falling in love all over again'. But if career counsellors are busy telling their young charges that they can achieve their dream to become an astronaut - or a pop star - Wendt is bluntly realistic. When did Jana . Jana, who quietly celebrated her 66th birthday last month, says she didn't ever imagine ending her famous TV career at 50, but now sees it as a blessing in disguise because it allowed her to pursue her passion for writing. Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia, Television legends Jana Wendt, 64, Ray Martin, 75 and Ian Leslie, 78, reunite to farewell their old 60 Minutes boss Gerald Stone -'The godfather of Australian news and current affairs', Big hair, big egos and even bigger stories: How 60 Minutes took Australia by storm in the 80s and made household names of its hosts - as they rally around the once swashbuckling George Negus who is now battling dementia, Karl Stefanovic jokes about THAT drunken 2009 post-Logie Awards appearance on the Today show - as he teases: 'Tune in to see how I scrub up after I win this year! "That's fine by me," she says. She had a child named Daniel with producer Brendan Ward. She was host of A Current Affair, also on Nine, until 1993,[6] and host of Australian Dateline on SBS and Witness on Seven. "He said, 'Come on, you don't catch buses.' Don't have an account? Wendt married producer Brendan Ward in 1984 and they have one son, Daniel. On 12 September 2006, just ten days after she left the Nine Network, Wendt agreed to appear on stage at the Seven Network's 50 Years of Television presentation, where she co-presented the News and Current Affairs section with Sydney news presenter Ian Ross, another former Nine Network employee. Wendt was infamously 'sacked' by Nine's then-CEO Eddie McGuire in 2006. I didn't realise at the start the amount of work involved and how it would snowball to become this huge project. "On the other hand, they are denied a sustained exposure to the everyday as unobserved observers.". Perhaps surprised to see her, he asked Wendt how she got there, and she told him she caught the bus. But she dismisses as a "pipe dream" the idea that women can have career and family without giving up something. Wendt won the 1992 Gold Logie Award for her role as host of A Current Affair. She hosted the show Sunday until 2006. "You have to be a bit crazy to attempt it. "I was going through my mother's recordings and I realised that the sonatas had never been recorded by an Australian before," says Ward. Willems, who remarried at the beginning of this year, says he would think twice about doing it all over again, although he admits there are some sections of the sonata he may now interpret differently. Rather than having to carve out a new identity for herself post-television, Wendt says she was always more suited to the solitary writer's life. If someone says, 'Come and do this job', and it happens to be a fantastic job, it's not as if you've aspired to it. ", Is she still ambitious? "We used three Stuart pianos for the sonatas and you can actually hear the sound differences in them," says Willems. "It was time-consuming and my marriage breaking down was a by-product of that. We have estimated First starting out as a researcher for the ABC, Wendt's television career began as a news presenter for ATV-10 evening news. 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