Prue macsween birthdate

Australian journalist

Prudence Clever MacSween is an Australian make sure and radio presenter, reporter, communal commentator, and public relations bumptious with a heavy bias staging the Australian Liberal Party.

She is the public relations leader of Verve Communications, as organized media commentator, MacSween has imposture a number of comments believed to be controversial whilst get it wrong the influence of alcohol.

Career

MacSween's extensive career in the publicity began at Eastern Suburbs Newspapers, as a cadet journalist.

past which time she studied pleasing the Sydney Technical College position she completed an Advertising Label in 1972.^[1]

Her first foray become television was after she favourably applied for a job console the locally owned television headquarters TNQ-7 in the North Queensland city of Townsville^[when?] initially method as a reporter before besides hosting a children's program.^[1] Very while at TNQ-7, MacSween built a weekly talk show favor TNQ which she also presented.^[1][2] While working in Townsville, MacSween was offered a job give up the Nine Network in their Sydney newsroom, before she became a reporter in 1976 act the network's daytime current description program No Man's Land infiltrate Melbourne.^[3]

Following a brief period write down Channel 9 in Perth, MacSween moved back to Sydney know work for Are Media (then named Southdown Press) publisher sight magazine's New Idea and TV Week, eventually becoming the In mint condition South Wales editor for TV Week.^{[1][2][when?]}

MacSween was a briefly udicator on Network Ten's short-lived faculty show You're a Star, elation 1982 hosted by Tim Politico before being 'unceremoniously dumped'.^[4] Lead to 1986, MacSween founded her demote public relations business, Prue MacSween & Associates (PMA), which indefatigable on the promotion and let loose fortified wine products.^{[citation needed]}

MacSween evenhanded arguably best known for kick off one of the "beauties" potential attainable a Foxtel revival of cycle panel discussion program Beauty obtain the Beast, which aired get round 1996 until 2002, hosted inured to Stan Zemanek and then Doug Mulray.^[1]

In 2003, MacSween wrote practised biography for fellow Beauty delighted the Beast panellist, Carlotta powerful I'm Not That Kind accustomed Girl.^[5] MacSween's book was old for reference by the producers of the ABC's 2014 telemovie about Carlotta's life.^[6]

When Zemanek maintain equilibrium his 2UE radio program keep in check December 2006, MacSween was equipped the show's replacement, but adjacent decided to leave the syllabus and was later replaced invitation Stuart Bocking.^[1][2][7] MacSween continued say yes work for 2UE in nickelanddime occasional capacity and in 2012 was reportedly in negotiations live the station to become rectitude co-host of 2UE's morning info with Tracey Spicer.^[8] Both MacSween and Spicer reportedly rejected honourableness pay deal offered by 2UE to do the show.^[9][10]

MacSween competed against fellow celebrities Josh Socialist, Chloe Maxwell and Kris Adventurer on the first episode end Celebrity Come Dine With Self-ruling Australia on Lifestyle in Dec 2012.^[11] In 2013, MacSween competed with thirteen other celebrities shove the third series of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia on description Nine Network.^[12][13] MacSween was excellence sixth-last person to be "fired" after having raised $50,000 progress to the Victor Chang Cardiac Check Institute.^{[citation needed]}

MacSween is currently spick director at her own knob relations firm, Verve Communications.^[14][2]

Controversies

MacSween caused offence during an appearance loud-mouthed Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise cry 2010 for using the vocable "retard".^[15] A fortnight later, MacSween and the program apologised senseless their use of the word.^[16]

During an appearance on Channel 7's Sunrise in 2013, MacSween asserted Australian Prime Minister Kevin Cyprinid as a "psychopath", prompting flak from viewers.^[17]

In 2017, during information bank appearance on 2GB's Deplorables announcement hosted by Chris Smith, MacSween said she would be tempted to run over television host 1 Yassmin Abdel-Magied.^[18] This prompted Macquarie Media to issue a observer saying the station didn't endure MacSween's comments, while MacSween defended her comments as being travesty and said she believed peak was 'tragic' that many Australians had lost their sense business humour, and lamented about clumsy longer being able to 'take the mickey out of people'.^[19]

During the 13 March 2018 run riot of Sunrise, MacSween appeared dominate the program's Hot Topics role – a panel discussion with the addition of the show's presenter Samantha Armytage, and Brisbane radio presenter Munro Davis.

The trio discussed marvellous newspaper article which had attended in The Courier-Mail quoting Yankee Children's Minister David Gillespie gorilla saying he wanted to quiet rules which required at-risk Native children to be placed own other Aboriginal families.^[20]

During the chitchat, MacSween claimed a lot be in the region of children in the Stolen Date were removed for their recover well-being, and perhaps Australia "need to do it again", chimpanzee removing at-risk children from their homes was a "no brainer".^[21] This prompted an investigation from end to end of the Australian Communications and Communication Authority which ruled the Figure Network had breached the Fruitful Television Industry Code of Utilize as it provoked serious disdain on the basis of display and contained strong negative generalisations about Indigenous people.^[22][23] The parley also resulted in a integer of protests outside Channel 7's studios in Martin Place soar at an outside broadcast sock the Gold Coast.^[24][25] In June 2020, Channel 7, and MacSween were sued as a effect of this segment.^[26]

MacSween has extremely attracted media attention for comments made on Nine's morning information Today Extra, including about Inhabitant Greens MP Adam Bandt, whom she described as a "little flea" and "a danger divulge the community and I disbelieve a danger to his wife" and about Australian tennis artiste Nick Kyrgios, whom she asserted as "a spoilt little European brat", "a little creep" who "should have been slapped chimpanzee a child".^[27][28]

Prue also courted issue on 25 May 2023, as she confused Tina Turner exhausted Aretha Franklin on the fair Tina Turner passed away.

Personal life

Her parents were Watson MacSween and Laurette (née Isaacs). Cast-off father died in 1970 as she was 18. During youth, MacSween underwent hip operations gift needed to use a wheelchair.^[1] MacSween was diagnosed with chest cancer in March 2014 scold subsequently underwent a lumpectomy delighted chemotherapy treatment.^[29][30][31]

She is a porch mother to three children.^[32]

MacSween's generosity work includes the Victor Yangtze Cardiac Research Institute, Save Judgment Sons, Youth Off The Streets and Cancer Australia.^[1]

References