Melanie Camp is an

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n-born media professional based in

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. One of five children, she grew up in

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, Western Australia.

Career

Melanie Camp is a Houston based television correspondent. She is part of the team on "Houston Life", a live, daytime lifestyle show that airs weekdays on

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, the NBC affiliate in Houston. Camp has interviewed celebrities such as

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and

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. Camp was co-host on ''AM Buffalo'', a weekday morning program on

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, working alongside longtime host Linda Pellegrino, who retired in December 2020. After that, Camp started hosting the show. Prior to moving to

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, she worked as a digital reporter and managing editor for local newspaper ''Yo! Venice'', a print and online news source for the Venice Beach community in

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. She also worked as a host for Civilized.Life and as a host on "BattlecamLive", a two-hour, live, interactive show broadcast on

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and online at Battlecam.com. Camp got her start in media in outback Australia at the regional radio station Power FM 98.1, based in

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. Here she worked as the station copywriter, commercial producer, and afternoon DJ. She has worked consistently in both radio and television ever since. For over five seasons she was a regular on '' Home in WA'', on the

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in Perth, Western Australia, and hosted many TV specials for the station, including the game show ''

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'' and the ''Our WA'' travel specials. As a radio DJ, Camp worked for DMG's Nova 937,

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, 96FM, and 92.9FM, where she was host of the late-night ''Australia's Most Wanted'' countdown. Camp was featured in the Perth Confidential section of ''

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'' in 2012. She was in the gangster spoof "Hit Team". She is a member of the fake band TigerTripp. Their single "The Ice Cream Song" was released in October 2014 and the music video had over 70,000 views on

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. In May 2022, Camp left Buffalo to join

in Houston as a correspondent for ''Houston Life''.

References

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