Will Goodings (born 1983) is an Australian television and radio presenter. He is best known for co-hosting the

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breakfast show with

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and for anchoring '' Seven News Adelaide'' bulletins alongside

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on Channel 7.

Radio

Goodings commenced working at FIVEaa in 2007. He was appointed as the host of the station's afternoon program in December 2013. Goodings hosted the afternoon show until September when he was announced as the new co-host of the FIVEaa breakfast show, replacing

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who moved to a weekend lifestyle program.

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replaced Goodings on the afternoon program. Since Goodings joined Penberthy on the breakfast show, the program has continued to consistently rate well and the duo have routinely been nominated as the Best On-Air Team (Metro AM) at the annual

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. However they have never won the award, having been defeated each year by teams from either Sydney's

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or Melbourne's

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. When Penberthy took

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in 2017, Goodings co-hosted the breakfast program with various people including

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and

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. At the beginning of the

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in 2020, Goodings commenced co-hosting the breakfast program remotely from a home studio.

Television

In January 2019, it was announced Goodings would be the new sports presenter on '' 10 News First: Adelaide'', replacing Nick Butler who relocated back to Melbourne. Goodings continued reading the sport on ''10 News First'' alongside anchor

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until the pair were made redundant in September 2020 when the network underwent a major restructure, which included the axing of the locally-presented Adelaide edition of ''10 News First''. The final bulletin went to air on 11 September 2020, after which it was replaced with a combined Victoria/South Australia bulletin presented by

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from Melbourne. In September 2022, Goodings began co-presenting the weekend editions of ''Seven News Adelaide'' with Rosanna Mangiarelli, replacing

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. Following the retirement of long-serving weeknight newsreader

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, it was announced in December 2022 that Goodings and Mangiarelli would replace Doyle as weeknight presenters in 2023, with Smithson returning as weekend newsreader. On their first night together, ''7NEWS Adelaide'' recorded more than double the ratings of rival '' Nine News Adelaide'', with 132,000 viewers to the latter's 61,000.

Personal

Goodings is married. He and his wife have one daughter who was born in October 2022. He studied politics at

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. Goodings is the son of former ''Seven News'' presenter

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References

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