Quick Contact Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Quick Search Search. More about Johanna Griggs: Like a lot of swimmers, Joanna Griggs started swimming on the recommendation from her doctors to help control her severe asthma.
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View our Speakers. Home Speakers Entertainers. Follow Us :. Returning to the pool at 19 for the Australian Swimming Championships in , the crowd went wild when Johanna not only touched the wall first in the metre backstroke, but recorded the fastest time in the world that year. It was then she would shock people once more, announcing her retirement from swimming the very next morning.
You can imagine her shock when, the following day, the Seven, Nine and Ten networks all rushed to present Johanna with offers to appear as on-air talent. Before her career in media, Johanna was an esteemed swimmer in her teenage years.
Johanna was able to transition her discipline in the pool across to her new chapter in media. Still, she wouldn't let luck be the only dynamic fuelling her new chapter. Once again, Johanna applied discipline after signing on the dotted line with Seven. And that's not a bad thing. Johanna believes that failing can be one of life's greatest lessons.
That rationale could apply to her short-lived but high-profile marriage to actor Gary Sweet. The pair wed in and swiftly had their two sons. In , Johanna was sacked via fax from her role at Seven — two weeks before she was due to return from maternity leave with first son Jesse and by then newly pregnant with Joe. A year after that, Gary was out of the picture.
Johanna is notoriously close-lipped about the breakdown of her first marriage, but she does tell The Australian Women's Weekly that while becoming a single parent was tough, it also brought her a lot of joy.
There are situations where people go between parents — we really didn't have to do that. So you're the decision maker, they're your little buddies. And I had a lot of support around me.
I see it time and time again with other new TV presenters. Griggs worked in sport for Seven before it changed management and she was sacked via fax while on maternity leave with her first son, Jesse. But when her marriage to Sweet soured and she was left a single mum at 24, Griggs was forced to take jobs out of her comfort zone. But it would soon prove a lifeline. I offered myself to Foxtel for two years for a bargain price as long as I could have a contract by 5pm that day.
Cut me a big slice of humble pie. I'm black and white in that if you don't mean something, don't say it, but he'd be like, 'I'm smart enough to make a career out of being controversial ' and he was open about it. Five years after that fax, Seven came crawling back, asking Foxtel if it could "borrow" Griggs for two weeks for the Sydney Olympics. The pay-TV network agreed, and Griggs got her taste back for sport. At the very least you can get rolled out for the Olympics every four years," she says with a laugh.
She re-signed with Seven the following year and has been with the station ever since, cementing her status with long-running lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens as well as on the high-profile tennis and horse-racing coverage. I could sit on the toilet or have a bath without someone knocking on the door or coming in and I'd be like, 'Wow, this is awesome'. Those kids are now teenagers.
Jesse's in Year 12, deciding between studying journalism and defence law, and Joe's in Year 11, having started a school-based electrical tradie program. He thinks TV is the wackiest thing on the planet. We close the door and home is home. We provide a stable life for the boys and we don't do things such as photo shoots in our home.
They're so full of hormones, but Todd's there for all of us. He's given me the confidence to take a few risks I might not have otherwise taken with work. It was almost like, 'How big's your ego if you think you can give up a great gig like that? At home, Griggs loves to entertain and cook, and at weekends, she and Huggins spend time at their farm in NSW's Hunter Valley where they breed Angus cattle.
The couple shun the many invites they receive to launches and opening nights. And I never accept freebies. I've never understood why they get offered to the people who can afford it. It's weird. Anything from clothing and jewellery to hoses and food, an amazing array.
It's a clear line for me. It makes my life simpler. Griggs is an avid charity worker, particularly for the McGrath Foundation, the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, which raises money for children's medical equipment, and Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, which cared for best friend Holly Robinson, who died from cancer aged 27 in
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