Livinia Helen Nixon (19 March 1975) is an Australian television presenter and actress. Nixon is the chief weather presenter for ''

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Career

Nixon began her television career in 1995 in an advert for ''Physical'' skim milk then joined GTV-9 in 1997. She appeared on the children's show ''Plucka's Place'' in 1997, before moving to the iconic Australian show ''

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'' as co-host, from 1997 until the show's cancellation in late 1999. She has also worked in radio on

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in Melbourne and hosted the drive shift on TT FM with

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for 18 months. It was during this time that she developed her on-air rapport with Phillips, which led to them to host the revamped version of ''Sale of the Century'' called ''

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''. She was on this version's entire run from 2005 until early 2009. Nixon has also appeared on the ''

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'', ''Carols by Candelight'', ''Micallef Tonight'', co-hosted ''

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'', ''Things To Try Before You Die'', co-hosted the ''Logies'' Red Carpet Arrivals (2008–2012) and co-hosted '' Test Australia: The National IQ Test'' with Eddie McGuire. She has filed stories for '' Getaway'' from Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Samoa, Japan, France, India and around Australia. In 2009, Nixon appeared in both ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' reunion specials. The popularity of the specials led to the revival of ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' in April the following year, in which Nixon resumed her role as co-host. Nixon has been the chief weekday weather presenter for ''

'' since 2004. In 2011, Livinia replaced

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as weather presenter on '' Nine Afternoon News''. The national edition of '' Nine Afternoon News'' was axed in 2017 and replaced by local statewide editions. She began presenting the weather on ''Nine Afternoon News Melbourne''. In July 2020, Nixon joined

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to host weekend breakfast across 2UE 954,

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, 4BH 882 and 6GT DAB+. In November 2020, Nine announced that Nixon will host '' Carols by Candelight'' with David Campbell. However, due to COVID–19 border restrictions, it was announced she would be presenting with

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Education

Nixon was educated at

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as well as

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. She has also completed a Graduate Diploma in Applied Science at

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Personal life

She grew up in the affluent

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suburb of Toorak. Nixon is an ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and World Vision. She also travelled to parts of Thailand with World Vision after the tsunami in December 2004. Nixon is married and has two sons."It's a big baby boy for Livinia Nixon"
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nixon, Livinia Nine News presenters Australian television actresses Living people Deakin University alumni University of Melbourne alumni Television personalities from Melbourne Australian women television journalists 1975 births People educated at Lauriston Girls' School People from Toorak, Victoria