Joanne Louise Silvagni (née Bailey; 10 March 1970) is an Australian

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and

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and television hostess/compere.

Career

Silvagni was born on 10 March 1970 to Barrie and Fran Bailey and was educated at

Tintern Grammar Tintern Grammar (also known as Tintern) is an independent, Anglican day school for girls and boys located in Ringwood East, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1877 by Emma Bartlet Cook, Tintern has a non-selective enr ...

, in the outskirts of Melbourne, and

Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne Methodist Ladies' College (commonly referred to as MLC) is a non-selective, non-denominational private school, private Day school, day and boarding school for girls, located in Kew, Victoria, Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Melbou ...

. She completed degrees in accounting and marketing at

RMIT University The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

and

Swinburne University of Technology The Swinburne University of Technology (or simply Swinburne) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne ...

respectively, and was employed as an auditor at

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(known then as Price Waterhouse) before starting her television career.Bailey, Joanne Louise
''The Australian Women's Register'', 4 May 2009. Starting out working as an undergraduate at Price Waterhouse, she was to be a spokesmodel for the Grundy game show ''

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'', between 1991 and 1993, hosted by

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and later on the Nine Network lifestyle programme '' Looking Good''. She was also the first female anchor for Foxtel's ''Entertainment News'' in the late 1990s. She currently does promotional work and has appeared on advertisements for companies such as ''Zoot Review'' and Berkowitz Furniture. She is one of the promotional faces of

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, a junior development program for the

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. The Silvagni children also participate in the program. In January 2014, Silvagni joined the

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to present the weather on ''

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'' in Melbourne while

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was on maternity leave. She remained in the role until December 2014 where she was replaced by meteorologist

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Personal

She is married to former Carlton footballer

Stephen Silvagni Stephen Silvagni (born 31 May 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Coming second in three generations of Silvagnis to represent the Blues, he is regarded a ...

, with whom she has three sons.Kids' catwalk kicks
''

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'', 17 March 2009. For several years after her marriage in 1996, she was still known in the media as Jo Bailey, although she is now known by her married name, Jo Silvagni.

References

1970 births Living people Australian female models Place of birth missing (living people) RMIT University alumni Swinburne University of Technology alumni Australian women television presenters Australian game show hosts {{Australia-tv-bio-stub