Gordon Elliott (born 30 September 1956) is a British Australian journalist and producer, radio and television personality and producer, based now in the

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. Elliott was the

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's former daytime cooking related talk show '' The Chew'', and had his own eponymous TV talk show program, between 1994 and 1997 '' The Gordon Elliott Show'' and '' Door Knock Dinners''.

Early life and early career

Elliott was born in Everton, Liverpool, England, but grew up in

Lewisham, New South Wales Lewisham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lewisham is located 7 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. History Le ...

, Australia. He was educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham. While studying as a Sydney student, Elliott worked part-time on a radio show and ended up on '' Good Morning Australia'' He also appeared as the Australian anchorman for the 1984 Olympic Concert Gala. The gala marked his third trip to

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, as he had earlier flown to Los Angeles to fill in as host of ''

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'' first in 1979 and again in 1980. At the time of his first ''AT40'' appearance, which introduced him to American audiences, he was the youngest substitute host in the program's history. After several jobs hosting morning news programs and landing work as the feature reporter on the Fox Television show '' A Current Affair'' (produced by New York's

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) in 1987, Elliott appeared as the house-entering feature reporter on WNYW's morning news program ''

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''.

Mid-1990s to present

The 1990s had him take turns hosting game and talk shows, including ''The Gordon Elliott Show'' from 1994 to 1997. In 1990, Elliott also hosted ''

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'' for two months before being replaced by

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. In 1991 he was the presenter for the Australian TV show, ''Hard Copy''. In 2000, he hosted ''

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''. Recently he has hosted the TV

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's programs ''Doorknock Dinners'', ''Follow That Food'', and the Fine Living network's ''The Genuine Article'', and was the TV pitchman for

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in the early 2000s. He had a recurring role on '' Oz'' as the host of a game show that was popular with the inmates. He formed his own production company, Follow Productions, in 1999. This company produces ''

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's Home Cooking'', ''Paula's Best Dishes'', and '' Paula's Party'' for Food Network. In 2007, he won a daytime Emmy for Best Lifestyle Series for his work on ''Paula Deen's Home Cooking''. His company has produced many other lifestyle series for cable networks, including ''Simply Wine with Andrea Immer'', ''Pairings with Andrea'', ''Best For Less'', the first four seasons of ''Sandra Lee's Semi Home Made'', ''We Live Here'', and ''Pocket The Difference'', and Pati Jinich's "Pati's Mexican Table" beginning with season three. He is executive producer of both Food Network shows hosted by Pat and Gina Neely: '' Down Home with the Neelys'' and '' Road Tasted with the Neelys''. In 2010, he began producing ''Spice & Easy'' for Food Network. He was also the executive producer and off-screen announcer for the lifestyle show '' The Chew'', which aired from 2011 to 2018 as a part of

's daytime lineup.

Filmography

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's ''

'' (substitute host, 9/8/1979 & 9/6/1980) * '' Good Morning Australia'' (breakfast TV) (1981–1987) * ''A Current Affair'' (1987–1991) * ''

'' (1990) * ''

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''/''Hard Copy Australian Edition'' (1991) * ''

'' * ''CBS This Morning'' (1993) * '' Ryori no tetsujin'' ("Iron Chef") (1993) (in the 2000 special "New York Battle") * '' The Gordon Elliott Show'' (talk show) (1994–1997) * '' World's Dumbest Criminals'' (1997) * ''Rencontre à New York'' (1998) * ''Trifling With Fate'' (2000) * ''

'' (2000) * '' Oz'' (2001) * ''Follow That Food'' (2002) * ''The Genuine Article'' (2004) * ''The Next Food Network Star'' (2005) * '' Gordon Elliott's Door Knock Dinners''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elliott, Gordon 1956 births Living people Australian male television actors Australian game show hosts Australian television journalists Food Network chefs Australian television talk show hosts Australian people of English descent Australian reporters and correspondents Australian expatriate journalists in the United States English expatriates in the United States Journalists from Sydney Television presenters from Liverpool People educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham English emigrants to Australia