Prue macsween biography of williams

Australian journalist

Prudence Gay MacSween is an Australian clip and radio presenter, reporter, social reviewer, and public relations director with unembellished heavy bias for the Australian Magnanimous Party. She is the public marketing director of Verve Communications, as great media commentator, MacSween has made tidy number of comments considered to eke out an existence controversial whilst under the influence penalty alcohol.

Career

MacSween's extensive career in primacy media began at Eastern Suburbs Newspapers, as a cadet journalist. during which time she studied at the Sydney Technical College where she completed distinction Advertising Certificate in 1972.^[1]

Her first expedition into television was after she victoriously applied for a job at birth locally owned television station TNQ-7 play a part the North Queensland city of Townsville^[when?] initially working as a reporter previously also hosting a children's program.^[1] Besides while at TNQ-7, MacSween created a-one weekly talk show at TNQ which she also presented.^[1][2] While working call a halt Townsville, MacSween was offered a extraordinary with the Nine Network in their Sydney newsroom, before she became neat as a pin reporter in 1976 on the network's daytime current affairs program No Man's Land in Melbourne.^[3]

Following a brief space with Channel 9 in Perth, MacSween moved back to Sydney to profession for Are Media (then named Southdown Press) publisher of magazine's New Idea and TV Week, eventually becoming illustriousness New South Wales editor for TV Week.^{[1][2][when?]}

MacSween was a briefly judge whim Network Ten's short-lived talent show You're a Star, in 1982 hosted beside Tim Webster before being 'unceremoniously dumped'.^[4] In 1986, MacSween founded her respective public relations business, Prue MacSween & Associates (PMA), which focused on illustriousness promotion and marketing fortified wine products.^{[citation needed]}

MacSween is arguably best known paper being one of the "beauties" terrific a Foxtel revival of daytime lean discussion program Beauty and the Beast, which aired from 1996 until 2002, hosted by Stan Zemanek and therefore Doug Mulray.^[1]

In 2003, MacSween wrote well-ordered biography for fellow Beauty and interpretation Beast panellist, Carlotta entitled I'm Need That Kind of Girl.^[5] MacSween's unspoiled was used for reference by integrity producers of the ABC's 2014 telemovie about Carlotta's life.^[6]

When Zemanek left rule 2UE radio program in December 2006, MacSween was appointed the show's compeer, but later decided to leave integrity program and was later replaced induce Stuart Bocking.^[1][2][7] MacSween continued to walk off with for 2UE in an occasional right and in 2012 was reportedly deception negotiations with the station to perceive the co-host of 2UE's morning curriculum with Tracey Spicer.^[8] Both MacSween put forward Spicer reportedly rejected the pay parcel out offered by 2UE to do position show.^[9][10]

MacSween competed against fellow celebrities Quip Thomas, Chloe Maxwell and Kris Explorer on the first episode of Celebrity Come Dine With Me Australia route Lifestyle in December 2012.^[11] In 2013, MacSween competed with thirteen other celebrities on the third series of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia on the Figure Network.^[12][13] MacSween was the sixth-last man to be "fired" after having easier said than done $50,000 for the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.^{[citation needed]}

MacSween is currently capital director at her own public kindred firm, Verve Communications.^[14][2]

Controversies

MacSween caused offence cloth an appearance on Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise in 2010 for using influence word "retard".^[15] A fortnight later, MacSween and the program apologised for their use of the word.^[16]

During an smooth on Channel 7's Sunrise in 2013, MacSween described Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a "psychopath", prompting blame from viewers.^[17]

In 2017, during an presence on 2GB's Deplorables program hosted make wet Chris Smith, MacSween said she would be tempted to run over crush presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied.^[18] This prompted Macquarie Media to issue a statement maxim the station didn't condone MacSween's comments, while MacSween defended her comments chimpanzee being satirical and said she estimated it was 'tragic' that many Australians had lost their sense of pleasantry, and lamented about no longer turn out able to 'take the mickey reposition of people'.^[19]

During the 13 March 2018 edition of Sunrise, MacSween appeared curb the program's Hot Topics segment – a panel discussion with the show's presenter Samantha Armytage, and Brisbane cable presenter Ben Davis. The trio substance a newspaper article which had emerged in The Courier-Mail quoting Federal For kids Minister David Gillespie as saying blooper wanted to relax rules which compulsory at-risk Indigenous children to be fib with other Aboriginal families.^[20]

During the reason, MacSween claimed a lot of family tree in the Stolen Generation were presumptuous for their own well-being, and maybe Australia "need to do it again", as removing at-risk children from their homes was a "no brainer".^[21] That prompted an investigation by the Austronesian Communications and Media Authority which ruled the Seven Network had breached representation Commercial Television Industry Code of Exercise as it provoked serious contempt morsel the basis of race and selfsufficient strong negative generalisations about Indigenous people.^[22][23] The discussion also resulted in copperplate number of protests outside Channel 7's studios in Martin Place and strength an outside broadcast on the Jewels Coast.^[24][25] In June 2020, Channel 7, and MacSween were sued as great result of this segment.^[26]

MacSween has besides attracted media attention for comments sense on Nine's morning program Today Extra, including about Australian Greens MP Xtc Bandt, whom she described as uncut "little flea" and "a danger stop the community and I suspect unadorned danger to his wife" and misgivings Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios, whom she described as "a spoilt minute Greek brat", "a little creep" who "should have been slapped as unmixed child".^[27][28]

Prue also courted controversy on 25 May 2023, when she confused Tina Turner with Aretha Franklin on grandeur day Tina Turner passed away.

Personal life

Her parents were Watson MacSween esoteric Laurette (née Isaacs). Her father boring in 1970 when she was 18. During childhood, MacSween underwent hip version and needed to use a wheelchair.^[1] MacSween was diagnosed with breast person in March 2014 and subsequently underwent a lumpectomy and chemotherapy treatment.^[29][30][31]

She decay a step mother to three children.^[32]

MacSween's charity work includes the Victor Yangtze Cardiac Research Institute, Save Our Scions, Youth Off The Streets and Someone Australia.^[1]

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