Amanda Keller

Amanda Rose Keller (born 25 February 1962) is an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and media personality best known as the host of the popular Australian lifestyle program The Living Room .

Education

Keller went to Carlingford High School and studied media and communications at Mitchell College of Advanced Education as a contemporary of Andrew Denton (among others). She was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM.

Career

Her first professional media job was in 1983 as a researcher for the popular children's television show, Simon Townsend's Wonder World! She was later a researcher and producer for Good Morning Australia when Gordon Elliott and Kerri-Anne Kennerley were hosts. By 1985, she was a researcher and producer for Ray Martin's Midday show, where she first began to appear regularly on camera.

In 1987, she left Midday to appear in the pilot for Richard Neville's counter-culture programme Extra Dimensions, which was produced by the same team that made Beyond 2000. Extra Dimensions folded after the first season. Keller's luck changed when she was signed to Beyond 2000, the internationally popular science programme, where she won numerous media awards including the United Nations Association of Australia's Media Peace Award in 1989, and the Michael Daley Award for Science Journalism.