Charlotte Dawson

Charlotte Dawson
Dawson in January 2011
Born	New Zealand
Occupation	Television personality and former model

Charlotte Dawson is known in New Zealand for her roles as host of Getaway, How's Life? and Charlotte's Lists, in Australia as a judge on Australia's Next Top Model and as a host of The Contender Australia.

Dawson left New Zealand at 16 to model in Europe and with Ford Models in New York. A decade later she relocated to Australia where she became a familiar face on television and the fashion world.

In 1997 she became beauty and fashion director for Woman’s Day and soon after became style editor for New Idea magazine. In 2000 she was the face of the Peter Morrissey fashion label, presenting her own fashion segment weekly on GMA for Network Ten, and featuring in the fashion section of Sydney’s’ Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. She was the fashion correspondent for Channel Ten's entertainment programme E! News and also a regular panellist on the network's hit daytime show, Beauty and the Beast and guest on Burke's Backyard and Channel Nine's Simply The Best.

While working for Australian agencies Cameron's and Priscilla's as an agent, she decided to try her hand at TV. She became a researcher at Nine Network and worked on programs such as Money and Looking Good. Shortly after she became fashion editor for the network's Today program, filing weekly reports on local and international fashion news and events within the industry. Magazines such as Vogue, Elle, She, Dolly, Cleo and Mode tracked Charlotte's progress, featuring her in fashion spreads.

With many appearances as a celebrity model at fashion shows, regular appearances on The Footy Show, a spot guest fashion commentator for Nine's Wide World of Sport and several hosting and MC jobs at media events, Charlotte became commercial television's unofficial face of fashion. As well as travelling extensively gathering local stories, she files reports on fashion shows from New York, which she still regularly visits.

Dawson returned to Auckland in 2002 where she had presenting roles on TVNZ's chat show How's Life?, and Prime Television's Getaway and Charlotte's Lists.

In 2008 she was a host on FOX8's Australia's Next Top Model for the Live Finale of the show, a replacement for Jodhi Meares, the host for the show through 2007 to 2008 who blundered herself through the Live Finale the previous season.

In 2007, she settled out of court with the Australian edition of Woman's Day magazine, after she sued the magazine over its coverage of her divorce from former Olympic swimmer Scott Miller.^[1]

She also hosted the Foxtel series Runway to L.A.^[2][3]

There was also a special television broadcast in New Zealand that featured Charlottes quest to find her birth mother.

In 2011, Charlotte became the face of Australian brand Howard Showers.

Dawson played for the BeyondBlue team in Netball's Festival of the Stars charity match where she played Goal Keeper. Interestingly, despite netball being a female sport, Dawson was one of only two females in the team (the other being Summer Burke).

References

1. ^ "Defamed Dawson collects payment". New Zealand Herald. 23 May 2007. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10441265. Retrieved 2008-11-08. 
2. ^ "Charlotte Dawson the star". Herald Sun. 7 June 2007. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21861589-5012974,00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-08. 
3. ^ "Charlotte Dawson knows runway pitfalls". Herald Sun. 7 September 2007. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22375469-5012974,00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-08. 

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