- Sandra Sully (journalist)
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occupation =Network Ten Journalist / Senior Editor - Late News
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agent =Sandra Sully (born February 1965 in
Brisbane ) is the senior news anchor withNetwork Ten , anAustralia ntelevision network . She anchors "Ten's Late News" from Monday to Thursday and often fills in for Ten's 5:00pm news presenters around the country generally in Sydney or Perth.Career
Australia's longest serving national news anchor, Sully began at Channel Seven in Brisbane, and has been at Ten since 1991 when she worked as a political correspondent in the network's Canberra bureau. She moved to Ten Sydney as a reporter, update presenter and later as weekend late-night anchor for "Ten Eyewitness News". Sandra's big break came in 1992 when she became co-anchor on "
Good Morning Australia " withMike Hammond and later Ron Wilson. The following year, the pair moved from dawn to dusk presenting Ten Sydney's 5:00pm news. In late 1995 followingAnne Fulwood 's departure for theSeven Network , Sully became regular weeknight anchor for "Ten Late News", a position she continues to hold.Sully was the first Australian television journalist to cover news of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. [ [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2001/366581.htm Media Report - 13 September 2001 - Media Coverage of US Crisis] ] She was on air when the first attack occurred and, shortly afterwards, began anchoring live, breaking coverage. [ [http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/media/transcripts/s375607.htm Dimensions Media - Transcripts] ] Sully was also the first television reporter to broadcast from the site of the 1997
Thredbo landslide disaster, in which 17 people were killed. She covered the rescue efforts until sole survivorStuart Diver was rescued in dramatic fashion.During her time with Ten, Sully has become the face of
Ten News and hosted various specials, including the anniversaries ofSeptember 11 and the2002 Bali bombings as well as a science and nature documentary series that aired, prime time, for several months. Sully hosted theAustralian of the Year Awards program, presented fromCanberra onAustralia Day eve, from 2002 to 2007. Through 2005 and 2006, Sully hosted various specials of Network Ten's "Australia's Brainiest ". She also regularly hosts theNew Year's Eve special of "Ten News", reviewing the major news events of the year. She has also informed the finalists of "Big Brother Australia 2005 ", "2006", " 2007" and " 2008" of newsworthy events that occurred during their time in the "house", in the style of a "Ten News" broadcast. She also hosted Cool Aid Australia's National Carbon Test. [ [http://ten.com.au/ten/coolaid-cool-aid-program.html Cool Aid Australia's National Carbon Test -] ]Sully is a keen sports fan, [ [http://www.saxton.com.au/default.asp?sd8=2284 Sandra Sully - Saxton Speaker Bureau - Speaker Details] ] and covered the
1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada and the1996 Summer Olympic Games inAtlanta . She was the first woman to co-host Australia's iconicMelbourne Cup carnival and did so for seven years. [ [http://ten.com.au/ten/ten-news-presenters.html TV Shows: News Presenters - Seriously Ten] ]In 2006, a character based on Sully named "Sandra Sultry" featured in "The Wedge", a comedy sketch show based around the fictional town of Wedgedale. "Sultry" was a news reporter who constantly revealed her legs, talked in a seductive, husky voice and chatted with other people in the studio while the cameras were running. This was perhaps to parody her conversations with sports anchor
Brad McEwan .Sully was the victim of a stalker in late November, 1997. She was raped in the car park of her home after returning from work. The incident prompted Sully to be fiercely private about her personal life, and she often has security guards around her for public appearances. Her attacker was never caught & never went to court.
Personal life
Sully was married to former journalist and political adviser Mark Ryan. They divorced in 2001.
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