Kellie Sloane
| Kellie Sloane | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Kellie Anne Sloane 5 January 1973 Barossa Valley, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Charity CEO |
| Years active | 1991–2015 |
Kellie Anne Sloane (born 5 January 1973) is a former Australian television journalist.
Sloane was a presenter on the Nine Network's Nightline, and was also briefly an interim co-host of Today in 2007.
Sloane first began her media career at ABC Local Radio in Adelaide in 1991, where she was a cadet reporter and a newsreader. She later moved to ABC TV in Adelaide.
She later joined Ten News as a reporter and fill-in presenter, before moving to Northbridge, New South Wales.
Sloane joined the Nine Network in 1997 as a lifestyle series reporter for both A Current Affair and Money. She moved from A Current Affair in 2005, during a revamp of the programme to combat a ratings slump against rival Seven Network's Today Tonight.
Sloane was then promoted to full-time news presenter at the Nine Network, filling in on the National Nine Early News alongside Sarah Murdoch, and Nightline. In 2006 she was appointed permanent presenter of National Nine News Afternoon Edition, replacing Mike Munro.
In April 2007, Sloane moved to co-hosting Today working with Karl Stefanovic as the stand-in replacement co-host for Jessica Rowe, who was on maternity leave at the time, however Rowe announced that she was leaving the Nine Network on 6 May 2007.
On 10 May 2007, in one of the most memorable incidents on Today, Sloane collapsed live on air. The collapse occurred at 8:10am during a cooking segment with celebrity chef , of Jamie Oliver fame. It was reported that she was okay after the incident and Sloane returned to the presenters desk about 15 minutes later, allegedly attributing the "dizzy spell" to her 3am wake-up call. Vision of Sloane collapsing in slow motion later went viral on social media with YouTube. The incident was parodied on an episode of ABC TV's The Chaser's War on Everything.
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