Carly Flynn (''née'' Kirkwood) is a New Zealand journalist and television personality.

Personal life

Born and raised in

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, New Zealand, where both of her parents were English teachers at

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, Flynn is the eldest of the three siblings. She completed a Bachelor of MediArts majoring in journalism from Waikato Polytech (now WINTEC) and a Diploma in Journalism from the Journalists Training Organisation. She married cameraman Dave Flynn on Sunday, 22 October 2006. They have three children, Tilly, Jude and Freddie.

Career

Flynn began her career in print journalism for the Herald community group newspapers before working for Counties Manukau Radio station then reporting, presenting and producing for Prime TV's

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and

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regional news. She travelled extensively, with a stint living and working in

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where she worked for local

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station

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as well as ''

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'', an Irish pop star programme, before returning to

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where she began as a reporter for ''

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''. She presented ''NZ News Week'', a half-hour weekly wrap of New Zealand's top news stories, produced by

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for

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and the TV3 website, before this was discontinued in early 2007. On 14 March 2005, Flynn took over as the presenter on TV3's late-night news programme ''

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'', replacing long-time TV3 presenter Carolyn Robinson, who became 3 News' weekend presenter. Flynn also continued to file reports for the show at the same time as presenting. Flynn left the role at ''Nightline'' on 7 September 2007 to host TV3's short lived breakfast show, ''

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''. ''Sunrise'' began on 2 October 2007 and she co-hosted the show with James Coleman, but from 6 October 2008 she began hosting alongside news presenter Oliver Driver. ''Sunrise'' went off the air on 8 April 2010 as it was not financially sustainable. In 2012, she was appointed as co-host of Three consumer affairs show

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alongside Brooke Howard-Smith taking over from Jeanette Thomas. Target has been off the air since 2013. In 2019, Flynn joined as a co-host for the Three Morning Show The Café as one of the hosts with Mel Homer. The series finished at the end of 2020.

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Personal life

Career

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