Carly Flynn (''née'' Kirkwood) is a New Zealand journalist and television personality.

Personal life

Born and raised in

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, New Zealand, where both of her parents were English teachers at

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, Flynn is the eldest of the three siblings. She completed a Bachelor of MediArts majoring in journalism from Waikato Polytech (now WINTEC) and a Diploma in Journalism from the Journalists Training Organisation. She married cameraman Dave Flynn on Sunday, 22 October 2006. In February 2010, she was asked by Sunrise co-host

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to announce that she is expecting her first child. On 30 June 2010, the Flynns had a baby girl they named Tilly Zoe Flynn. She gave birth to her second child in February 2012. Flynn was pregnant and expecting her third child with husband Dave, due in early March 2017.

Career

Flynn began her career in print journalism for the Herald community group newspapers before working for Counties Manukau Radio station then reporting, presenting and producing for Prime TV's

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and

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regional news. She travelled extensively, with a stint living and working in

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where she worked for local

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station

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as well as '' You're A Star'', an

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pop star programme, before returning to

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where she began as a reporter for ''

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''. She presented ''NZ News Week'', a half-hour weekly wrap of New Zealand's top news stories, produced by TV3 for

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and the TV3 website, before this was discontinued in early 2007. On 14 March 2005, Flynn took over as the presenter on TV3's late-night news programme '' Nightline'', replacing long-time TV3 presenter Carolyn Robinson, who became 3 News' weekend presenter. Flynn also continued to file reports for the show at the same time as presenting. Flynn left the role at ''Nightline'' on 7 September 2007 to host TV3's short lived breakfast show, ''

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''. ''Sunrise'' began on 2 October 2007 and she co-hosted the show with James Coleman, but from 6 October 2008 she began hosting alongside new presenter

. ''Sunrise'' went off the air on 8 April 2010 as it was not financially sustainable. In 2012, she was appointed as co-host of Three consumer affairs show

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alongside Brooke Howard-Smith taking over for Janette Thomas. Target has been off the air since 2013. In 2019, Flynn joined as a co-host for the Three Morning Show The Café as one of the hosts with

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. The series finished at the end of 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flynn, Carly New Zealand television presenters New Zealand television journalists Living people People from Taupō Radio Live 1977 births

Personal life

Career

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