Brigitte Duclos (born 13 December 1964) is an Australian television and radio presenter.

Personal life

Duclos, one of three sisters, was educated at

Shelford Girls' Grammar Shelford Girls' Grammar (previously known as Shelford Girls' School, Shelford Church of England Girls' Grammar School, and sometimes SCEGGS) was an independent Anglican day school for girls. It was located in Caulfield, a suburb of Melbourne, ...

. In December 2007, Duclos announced that she had split with husband Michael Thomson. They have two children together. Most recently her partner was Sam Westaway, a renowned Melbourne media power broker.

TV career

Duclos began her media career in television in 1986 when she joined

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after finishing an Applied Science degree at the Footscray Institute of Technology. Her major in Physical Education led to her immediate appointment as sports reporter, establishing herself as among the first female sports journalists in Australia. Specialising in tennis and golf, she covered all major tournaments, including the

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in both sports. Duclos spent two years as an on-the-road reporter for ''Ten Eyewitness News''. She also presented weather, national news updates and, occasionally, '' Ten's Morning News''. Duclos also reviewed movies on

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's national Saturday morning show "Video Hits", and has established a successful career as a host and guest speaker at many business and entertainment functions and has been a regular columnist with the Herald Sun's Sunday Magazine. She is also famous for pulling

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s or red cards on her co-hosts or guests when they say anything that could be construed as bad language (especially around school drop-off times). In 2006, Duclos was one of the contestants on the

special ''Australia's Brainiest Radio Star''.

Radio career

Triple M

In April 1992, Duclos took on the role of morning news reader for Melbourne's

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radio breakfast show, The

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Breakfast Show, and with her fun sense of humour and natural "chatty" personality she became part of the Breakfast Show team within four months. After four years of breakfast radio on

, Duclos in 1997 joined drive show, The Grill Team, sharing the microphone with

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and her former

colleague

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. She quickly established herself as a strong, quick witted, lovable "lady" of the trio, not afraid to give her opinion and equally not afraid to joust with the boys.

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was a long-running breakfast radio show which aired in Australia (in Melbourne) on Triple M, part of the Austereo Radio Network. Each host (Peter Berner, Brigitte Duclos, James Brayshaw, Matt Parkinson and Mike Fitzpatrick), had a nickname which they use as their on-air moniker, although they also use their real names. Brigitte is sometimes known as 'Bridge' or 'Top Flight' by her co-hosts.

Mix 1011

In 2008, Duclos joined Mix 1011 breakfast show titled ''Two Women & a Metro'' alongside

Tom Gleeson Thomas Francis Gleeson (born 2 June 1974) is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, television and radio presenter. Gleeson currently hosts '' Hard Quiz'' and '' Taskmaster Australia'' and previously co-hosted ''The Weekly with Charlie Picker ...

. In early 2010 Gleeson left the morning breakfast show and was replaced by Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann.

Gold 104.3

In December 2011,

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announced that Lehmann and Duclos would move to present ''Brig & Lehmo for Breakfast'' on Gold 104.3 replacing ''Grubby & Dee Dee''. In November 2015, it was announced that Duclos' contract at Gold 104.3 would not be renewed. She was replaced by FOX FM presenter

Jo Stanley Joanne McFarlane (''née'' Bailey), commonly known as Jo Stanley, is an Australian television and radio presenter and comedian. Stanley was a host of ''Jo & Lehmo'' on Gold 104.3 from 2016 to 2017. She previously hosted ''Weekend Breakfast' ...

ABC Radio Melbourne

In November 2024, ABC announced that Duclos will host Afternoons on

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replacing

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duclos, Brigitte 1964 births Living people Australian television presenters Australian women television presenters Australian women radio presenters Radio personalities from Melbourne