Andrew Daddo

Andrew Dugald Daddo (born 18 February 1967) is an Australian actor, author and television and radio personality.

Early life Daddo was born in Melbourne on 18 February 1967. He was one of five children to parents Peter and Bronwen Daddo, growing up alongside older sister Belinda, older brother Cameron, identical twin brother, Jamie (who is an artist) and younger brother Lochie. Cameron and Lochie are also actors and television presenters.

Daddo began his education at Mt Eliza Primary School and in year seven moved to Peninsula Grammar. After a short stint at the grammar school, the Daddo family moved away and he continued his education at Millburn Junior High in New Jersey, USA. Returning to Australia, he spent the last two and a half years of his schooling at Melbourne Grammar School. Daddo holds an Arts degree from Monash University.

Career

Actor and presenter Daddo started his television career while still at university. He then moved to New York in 1989 The following year, he hosted Australia's Funniest People, the TV Week Logie Awards and World's Greatest Commercials, the latter until 1996. In 2002, he reunited with Ernie Dingo as a presenter on the Seven Network's The Great Outdoors until 2008, after previously having hosted the show in 1994.

Daddo was the host of the television series The One which premiered on the Seven Network in July 2008. During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he hosted an Olympics-oriented morning talk show, Yum Cha. In February of that year, Daddo was appointed presenter of ABC Radio Sydney's evening program. which was axed after two and a half weeks on air, due to poor ratings. He also hosted the Ozspell Australian Spelling Championships. and has been the narrator of RBT: Random Breath Testing since 2010.

In 2015, Daddo was a contestant on the reality competition show: I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. He was the fifth contestant to be evicted. In 2016 he hosted The New Golf Show, a golf television broadcast on Fox Sports.

In 2022, Daddo collaborated with Nova to launch the podcast series So You Want to Make a TV Show with brother Cameron Daddo, which detailed the creative process behind making scripted television.

Daddo also works as an MC. He has presented the International Advertising Festival in Cannes several times, Ian Thorpe's Foundation launch, the John Eales Medal, The Lions v Wallabies series and The Tri Nations.

Author Daddo is also an accomplished author, having written numerous books, including picture books, chapter books, short story collections, young adult novels and adult non-fiction. His first book, Sprung! was a collection of comical short stories about a character called Fergus Kipper, the protagonist of a series which continued in Sprung Again!, You’re Dropped!, Dacked!, and Flushed!

In 2006, he wrote It's All Good, a memoir about Ray O'Neal, who he'd met in 1991 and set off with on a motorcycle trip across America, forming a great friendship in the process. O'Neal died in an accident in 2004, leaving behind a wife and a young daughter, after which Daddo wrote the memoir about his time with Ray.

Other children’s titles include Good Night Me, Youse Two, Muffin Top, Grandma’s Guide to Happiness, Stuff Happens: Ned, Wet Cement, Creepy Cool, Dog of a Day and The Girl Trap.

Personal life Daddo currently resides in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, with wife Jacquie and their three children.