Yvonne Sampson
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Yvonne Sampson 21 July 1980 Townsville, Australia |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
Yvonne Sampson (born 21 July 1980), is an Australian television sports presenter and commentator.
Sampson currently works for Fox Sports. She has previously worked for Nine's Wide World of Sports and was weekend sports presenter for Nine News Sydney
Sampson grew up on Sunshine Coast, Queensland on a farm near Palmwoods. She attended Stella Maris Catholic Primary School at Maroochydore and then St John's College at Nambour.
Sampson is of part Indigenous Australian heritage, with her paternal grandmother being indigenous.
In April 2017, Sampson announced that she is engaged to Nine News reporter Chris O'Keefe.
With a little help of a chance encounter between her taxi-driving father and former NRL player Wendell Sailor, Sampson began her career as a cadet reporter at the Seven Network's regional news service, Seven Local News on the Sunshine Coast working one day a week, while juggling her studies at the Queensland University of Technology and employment with the Eagle Farm Equine Hospital.
Upon completion of her studies, Sampson joined the network permanently as a sports reporter, working throughout the state in cities such as Maryborough, Mackay and Townsville before returning to the Sunshine Coast to also becoming a studio presenter.
Sampson left Seven Local News in 2010, after signing a two-year contract with Sky News Australia in Sydney.
In 2012, Sampson returned to Queensland, joining the Nine Network in Brisbane. In January 2014, Sampson was offered the opportunity to return to Sydney to be more extensively involved with Nine's Wide World of Sports coverage including presenting the sport on Nine News Sydney.
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