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HOST<br />
GRANT<br />
DENYER<br />
Host Grant Denyer admits<br />
he is not a foodie but is<br />
honoured to be hosting IRON<br />
CHEF AUSTRALIA being<br />
inspired by great food and<br />
talented chefs.<br />
Grant joined Channel 7 in 2003 and has never<br />
looked back. Australian audiences really got<br />
to know Grant as Sunrise’s Weather Man,<br />
taking the ‘Sunrise Weather Wagon’ around<br />
the country for more than two years, going<br />
from town to town, spending most of his time<br />
on the road and away from home. He first<br />
gave up the “Sunrise Weather Wagon” in 2006.<br />
In the same year Grant embraced the<br />
challenge of taking part in <strong>Seven</strong>’s “Dancing<br />
with the Stars” and strutted his stuff to a<br />
dazzling victory, taking out boxing champ<br />
Kostya Tszyu. He then went on to host “It<br />
Takes Two” and “Australia’s Got Talent”.<br />
With many hours of live TV experience, 2007<br />
saw Grant in a new role with “Sunrise” with<br />
“Dare Denyer”. Viewers set his challenges every<br />
week, which has seen him jump off the tallest<br />
building in New Zealand, to wearing a “Mankini”<br />
down at Bathurst on live national TV. Whatever<br />
the challenge, Grant never backed down.<br />
But he’s not just a presenter or host.<br />
for racing go-karts. He then progressed to<br />
Utes, and real cars, driving a FORD V8 in the<br />
V8 Supercar Fujitsu series. He also raced<br />
Mini Coopers, as part of Australia’s Mini<br />
Championships.<br />
2008 saw Grant leading the field in the Mini<br />
Championships and he had his first win in<br />
his V8 Supercar at Sandown races in June<br />
2008. It was set to be the best year of his<br />
racing career, but instead it became the<br />
worst. In September 2008, Grant shattered<br />
his L1 vertebrae in a Monster Truck accident.<br />
Everything about the jump was textbook,<br />
except the landing, which left him in intensive<br />
care for more than two weeks. Grant’s racing,<br />
presenting and hosting career was put on<br />
hold whilst he recovered.<br />
His return to television was for <strong>Seven</strong>’s<br />
“Carols in the Domain” on December 20,<br />
2008. He then went on to once again host<br />
<strong>Seven</strong>’s “Australia’s Got Talent”, reported<br />
for <strong>Seven</strong>’s “Sunday Night” and hosted<br />
“Destroyed in Seconds” for the Network.<br />
He also returned to a racing career having<br />
great success for 2009 finishing in 4th place<br />
in the V8 Fujitsu series and 4th place in the V8<br />
Minis championship.<br />
This year has already been a big year for<br />
Grant. He hung up his racing gloves to return<br />
to his old roots as the loveable weatherman<br />
on Sunrise. There’s no weather wagon this<br />
year, just planes, posti bikes and kombi vans!!<br />
He also returned to his hosting duties for the<br />
popular series of “Australia’s Got Talent” and<br />
managed to get married as well!<br />
Living out every male fantasy, Grant always<br />
dreamt of being a race car driver. He started<br />
driving cars at the age of seven around the<br />
family farm in NSW. Due to legal issues of<br />
racing cars under the age of 10, he settled<br />
IRON CHEF