Rawdon Christie

Rawdon Christie is a former English-New Zealand journalist turned media relations expert and real-estate sales person.

Early life and education Christie was born in London. He attended Marlborough College, and then the University of Edinburgh, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree.

Media career After a spell as a teacher of performing arts and sports coach at King's School in New Zealand, Christie attended the London College of Printing to undertake a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism. While there he won the 'Young Broadcast Journalist of the Year' award in 2000 (Broadcast Journalism Training Council). He started his journalism career with the BBC in Cambridge, firstly with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, then with BBC Look East.

In September 2011 Christie became co-host (with Toni Street) of Television New Zealand's new Saturday Breakfast show. In May 2012, Christie was promoted as weekday co-host of Breakfast, replacing Corin Dann; he held this job until 2016, when he was dismissed from TVNZ due to major changes being made to the breakfast programme.

Christie has since left the television industry to run his own media communications company. In 2020, he obtained his real estate licence to become a real estate salesperson for his local Barfoot & Thompson.

Personal life Christie lives in Auckland with his wife and three children.

His cousin is the movie star Julie Christie.