Ashleigh Gillon is an

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. Gillon currently works on

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Career

Early in her career, Gillon worked at a radio station in

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before joining Sky News Australia in 2004, serving as a producer. In 2011, Gillon received the Wallace Brown Award, honouring young journalists in the

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, as well as an ASTRA Award for outstanding performance by a broadcast journalist. Gillon was part of the Sky News Canberra bureau, including a stint as host of '' Lunchtime Agenda'' before moving to

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to anchor rolling afternoon news. In 2014, Gillon was on air as anchor during the

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. Following her relocation to

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, Gillon became host of weekend program ''Weekend Live with Ashleigh Gillon''. In a 2016 interview, Gillon revealed a male then-Government minister would ask her and only her to apply his make-up every time he would do an interview with her, and only ended when her colleague

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stepped in.

Personal life

Gillon attended

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and obtained a

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diploma in journalism from

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, as well as a degree in marketing and media. Gillon is married to

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director Aaron Hood and has one daughter, who was born in 2013. Gillon was congratulated live on air by

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during an interview, and after giving birth by then Prime Minister

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. Joyce had also revealed on air her engagement to Hood two years prior.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gillon, Ashleigh Living people Australian television journalists Sky News Australia reporters and presenters Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at St Mary's Anglican Girls' School