Melanie Symons (born 1975) is an Australian media personality, who is best known for appearing on a number of television shows on the

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, most notably ''

Saturday Disney ''Saturday Disney'' is a long running Australian children's television program which aired on the Seven Network in Australia for over 26 years, with the first episode going to air on 27 January 1990. The show was a television block which aired ...

'' from 1997 until 2002, and ''

Ground Force ''Ground Force'' was a British garden makeover television series originally broadcast by the BBC between 1997 and 2005. The series was originally hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh. Production The series was created b ...

'' from 2002 until 2005. Symons began her career on

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's ''

Totally Wild ''Totally Wild'' is an Australian children's television series which premiered on Network 10 on 12 July 1992. The series aired on 10 Peach from 2013 to 2020, and 10 Shake from 2020 to 2021. It had a current affairs program format, and did stor ...

'' in 1994 as a reporter. In 1997 she moved to the Seven Network's

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show ''Saturday Disney'', where she hosted for five years. In April 2002 she began presenting on the Australian version of the backyard renovation show ''Ground Force'' as the "bargain hunter". In 2003 Symons also presented her own lifestyle program ''

Australia's Best Backyards ''Australia's Best Backyards'' is an Australian lifestyle TV series on the Seven Network. The program is hosted by landscape gardener Jamie Durie, who previously hosted ''Backyard Blitz'' on the Nine Network. The first episode aired on Sunday 2 ...

'', and co-hosted ''

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'' as a fill-in for two weeks. She hosted the first

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segments on the ''

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'' breakfast program and also appears on '' The Morning Show''. For over ten years she has been presenter for ''

Sydney Weekender ''Sydney Weekender'' is an Australian travel show featuring destinations throughout the state of New South Wales. The program debuted in 1994 on Saturdays at 5:30pm, later moving to Sundays at the same time before the local nightly news bulleti ...

'', a local travel program that shows viewers the best places to go and things to do across

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Television roles

Personal life

In 2016, at 40 years of age, Symons had a child with her partner Scott Craft, the younger brother of fellow ''Saturday Disney'' presenter

Shelley Craft Shelley Craft (born 21 June 1976) is an Australian television personality. She is most well known for her long-running presenting roles on the Seven Network programs ''Saturday Disney'' from 1996 until 2002, and '' The Great Outdoors'' from 200 ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Symons, Mel Australian television personalities Women television personalities Australian people of Greek descent Living people 1975 births