Richard Reid is an Australian-based American

entertainment reporter Entertainment journalism is any form of journalism that focuses on popular culture and the entertainment business and its products. Like fashion journalism, entertainment journalism covers industry-specific news while targeting general audiences ...

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''. Retrieved 14 January 2019. He is known for his daily Hollywood gossip segment on the

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's breakfast program ''

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'' from 2006 until 2015. During this time, he was also the resident style expert on Nine's makeover show, '' Domestic Blitz'' and appeared on other Nine programs such as ''

20 to One ''20 to One'' (known as ''20 to 1'' before 2016) is an Australian television series on the Nine Network from 2005, that counts down an undefined "top 20" of elements or events of popular culture, such as films, songs, or sporting scandals. The ...

''. More recently, he has been a regular contributor to

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's morning program, ''

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''. In 2015, Reid appeared on the fourth season of Nine's reality show, ''

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''. In 2019, Reid appeared on the fifth season of Network Ten reality show, '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!''.

Biography

Hired as an entertainment reporter for

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in Seattle, Washington, Richard caused a stir in 1999 when he became the first openly gay on-air personality in the region. He quickly became known for his hilarious celebrity interviews, insider gossip and his ‘Richard’s Reels’ movie reviews. In 2004, Richard moved to Hollywood and established a name for himself as a producer, creating daily stories for ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Insider'' and the

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. While working on the

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lot, Richard began doing the occasional gossip cross for the Australian ''

Show'' which immediately caught on with viewers. Soon, that once-a-week segment became a permanent fixture, culminating with four live crosses to Hollywood each and every day. He remained with the show for 8 years. In 2008, Richard joined forces with

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and Shelley Craft as a team member on the popular Sunday night reality series '' Domestic Blitz''. The show ran for four series. Having parted ways with ''Today'', he would work again with

in 2015 as a cast member on the fourth season of ''

''. While he appeared on every episode, he was fired in a double elimination on the second to the last episode. In 2019, Richard was lured back into the reality show genre, flying to South Africa to join series five of ''

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' is a British reality TV series in which a number of celebrities live together in a jungle environment for a number of weeks, competing to be crowned "King" or "Queen of the Jungle". The show was or ...

'' The Network Ten series proved to be a major hit with viewers, who in turn crowned Richard “King of the Jungle,” winning the entire series. In July 2019, Reid made his Australian stage debut in

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’s spectacular 3D musical production of ''Jack and Beanstalk'' at Sydney's historic State Theatre. Dividing his time between Los Angeles and Sydney, Richard appears as a contributing panelist on

’s morning show ''Studio Ten''. In February 2020, Reid was featured in First Dates Australia.

References

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