Amber Simone Sherlock (née Higlett) is an Australian journalist, television news presenter and reporter. She currently presents the weather on ''

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'' and previously hosted the daily national one hour news bulletin ''

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''.

Career

Sherlock began her career at the

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in Sydney and worked for the financial news service at the

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before joining

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for the

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. She then moved into finance journalism, taking a position in

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for several years. She came back to

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as a host for a Network Ten current affairs program. Upon her return to Sydney, Sherlock went to work for

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as a financial journalist, after which she took a position as a newsreader with Sky News Australia. Sherlock joined the Nine Network in 2007 to present the business segments for the ''Today'', '' Nine Morning News Hour'' and '' Nine Afternoon News''. She was the news presenter on ''

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'' and Monday news presenter on ''Today''. Sherlock later presented the morning edition of the ''Qantas Inflight News''. In January 2009, it was announced that Sherlock would be the news presenter for ''Weekend Today'', alongside co-hosts

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and

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. In July 2009, Sherlock was appointed Monday news presenter for ''Today'', as

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presents ''Nine News'' Sydney on Friday and Saturday. Sherlock is represented by the management company 22.

Personal life

Sherlock is a graduate of the

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. In June 2010, Amber gave birth to a daughter. She went into labour while on air during ''Weekend Today''. In April 2014, Sherlock gave birth to a son.

Controversy

On 12 January 2017, footage was leaked showing Sherlock off-air having an outburst during an advert break on ''

'' because she and fellow journalist reporter Julie Snook were both wearing the same colour white (though Snook argued she was actually wearing a shade of light blue), as well as guest psychologist Sandy Rea. Sherlock stated "we cannot all be in white" for the talk segment and demanded that Snook put on a jacket. In a statement to 9Honey, Sherlock said that she "probably overreacted" over the situation and that "Live TV can be a pretty stressful beast, at times." Snook told 9Honey that she and Sherlock were still friends and that she does enjoy working with her. The footage was featured on ''

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'' as part of

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's opening for the show. Kimmel said in his opening monologue "I don't know who decided to release this tape but whoever that was I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart," It was stated that the staff member at Nine who leaked the video would face disciplinary action, with insiders calling it a "sackable" offence.

References

External links

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