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Grant Denyer's History
Grant hosts the much-loved game show, Deal or No Deal, on Network 10
Grant revives the role of Daddy Quokka in the Feature Film Combat Wombat
2023
Grant and Chezzi cast and compete in Amazing Race Australia Celebrity Addition, and quickly become audience favourites
Grant appears as a surprise guest on Network 10’s, Thank God You Are Here
Grant and Chezzi resign with Nova to release Season Ten of the It’s All True? Podcast
2022
Grant is cast in Channel Seven’s Dancing with the Stars alongside dance partner Lily Cornish. They win the series, making Grant the only person in the world to ever win two series of DWTS
Grant appears in the hit ABC TV Series Preppers. Cast as Thomas, the main protagonists sleazy partner. Series created by Nakkiah Lui
2021
I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Grant survived 5 weeks in the jungle and is crowned runner up to a record number of viewer votes
It’s All True Podcast joins Nova Network to release it’s much anticipated Fifth Season
February 10th - Sunday Mary Mae Denyer is born
Grant is cast in Australian animation role, appearing in the feature Film Daisy Quokka as Daddy Quokka
Grant explores his family history in a moving episode of SBS’s Who Do You Think You Are?
2020
Grant hosts Dancing with the Stars Season 2
Grant & Chezzi celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary & renewed their vows
Grant appears in Drunk History playing Captain Thunderbolt
Family Feud reboot
2019
Grant hosts 'Dancing with the Stars' Series 1
The Denyer’s feature in The Australian Women’s Weekly
Grant Hosts the game show 'Celebrity Name Game' 5 nights per week
2018
Grant WINS the Gold Logie for ‘Best Personality on Australian TV’, and Silver Logie for ‘Best Presenter’
Grant joins the radio breakfast team at 2Day FM alongside Ed Kavalee and Em Rusciano
Grant wins an ACRA radio award for Best Newcomer
Grant hosts the Ellen DeGeneres TV format ‘Game of Games’
Grant releases Single 'Driving home for Christmas' reaching number 5 on the charts
2017
Grant is nominated for Gold Logie, and Silver Logie for
Best Presenter
Grant races for McLaren in the Bathurst 12 Hour Grant has a lucky escape in a serious racing accident while leading the Lake Mountain Sprint tarmac rally event. His Lotus hit a tree at 160km an hour, injuring him and his Co-Driver
2016
Grant Hosts ‘The Great Australian Spelling Bee’ Season 2
Grant wins the CAMS Australian Endurance Championship in a McLaren with co-driver Nathan Morcom
Grant’s Family Feud wins Best Entertainment Logie
2015
17th September - Scout Una Denyer Born at Orange Hospital
Grant co-hosts ‘The Great Australian Spelling Bee’ for Network 10
Grant joins Ferrari in the Australian GT Championship - winning most of the races with co-driver Tony D’Alberto and secures 2nd in the championship
(they missed one round)
2nd Place Targa Tasmania - showroom class
2014
The Denyer's moved to a tranquil farm outside of Bathurst, Central West NSW
Grant joined Network 10 as the host of the revived television classic Family Feud. Family Feud quickly became a big hit, with a regular audience of metro and regional viewers in excess of 1 million viewers each night, making it Australia's number one game show - he goes onto record over 1,500 episodes
2013
Grant leaves Sunrise to pursue his race dreams and wins Targa Tasmania in his Renault Megane
Host of Seven’s slideshow
2012
Broadcast live from the London Olympics.
Grant travels Australia and the world, interviewing Internationally known personalities such as One Direction, Justin Bieber, Sir Edmund Hillary, Michael Buble, Greg Norman, Jennifer Hawkins, Oprah Winfrey and many others
Grant travels Australia and the world, interviewing Internationally known personalities such as One Direction, Justin Bieber, Sir Edmund Hillary, Michael Buble, Greg Norman, Jennifer Hawkins, Oprah Winfrey and many others
2011
7th May 2011 - Sailor Shelley Denyer Born at Prince of Wales Private Hospital. Grant Hosts 'The Great Australian Spelling Bee' Season 2
Grant hosted Australia's Got Talent Series 5
Grant combines his love of TV and racing to Host the 'Shannon's Supercar Showdown'. A reality TV program designed to find Australia's next superstar racing driver, to partner Grant in the V8 Supercar Bathurst 1000 in a Holden for Kelly Racing
2010
Grant returned to Sunrise Grant hosted Australia's Got Talent Series 4
Grant Denyer & Cheryl Rogers Married at Hamilton Island
Grant hosted Iron Chef
2009
Host of 'It Takes Two' series 4
Grant hosted Australia's Got Talent Series 3
Grant hosted Australia's Got Talent Series 3
Drove a Porsche in the famous 24hour race at Nurburgring Germany against some of the world's elite drivers and manufactures, finishing a sensational 9th Position out of 200 cars
4 race victories in the V8 Supercar Development Series - finishing 4th outright in championship
Sandown Raceway
Outback Trek
Outback Trek
V8 Mini's Tasmania
Winton Victoria
2008
Host of 'It Takes Two' series 3
Grant broadcasts live from Beijing China for the Olympics
Grant hosted Australia's Got Talent Series 2
Grant hosted Australia's Got Talent Series 2
Grant secures his first 2 V8 Supercar victories in the Summit Fleet Leasing/PlayStation Ford at Sandown and Queensland Raceway
V8 Mini's Tas 2nd place outright in the Bathurst 12 Hour Production Car race
Grant suffers a serious injury, breaking his back during a Monster Truck demonstration in Wollongong, requiring 6 months of extensive medical care and rehabilitation
Grant suffers a serious injury, breaking his back during a Monster Truck demonstration in Wollongong, requiring 6 months of extensive medical care and rehabilitation
He was also leading the BMW Mini Challenge Racing Series at the time of the accident
2007
Grant hosted Australia's Got Talent Series 1
Host of 'It Takes Two' series 2
He also did a number of tarmac rallies, finishing 2nd in the Suncoast Rally in Queensland, 3rd at the Mt Buller Sprint and finished in the top 20 at Targa Tasmania in a BMW Mini
2006
Host of 'It Takes Two'
Grant's finally fulfils his childhood dream and races in his first ever V8 Supercar Bathurst 1000 race, finishing 9th (first placed Rookie) with co-driver Alex Davison driving for Dick Johnson racing
Grant is awarded 'Rookie of the Year' in the V8 Supercar Championship and CAMS 'Motor Racing Personality of the Year'
2005
Grant WINS Dancing with the Stars, series 4, surprising many with his dancing skills and cheeky, cleverly choreographed routines with dance partner Amanda. In a nail-biting grand finale, Grant KO'D world boxing champ Kostya Tszyu to become the series champion
Cyclone Larry - Grant takes weather broadcasting to the next level, as the first to get into and then get live pictures out of, the most devastated areas during the worst cyclone to hit Queensland in 70 years. This is where Grant develops a great reputation as a skilled international adventure reporter
2004
Grant Wins V8 Utes Summer Championship
Grant starts a full-time role as the Sunrise weatherman with a simple brief 'do you want but make the weather as entertaining and different as you can'. Grant jumped at Networks offer hungry to fire-up the morning TV landscape and set a whole new standard for live broadcasts with his incredible talent for live action, a deep love for Australia and his many outrageous stunts
Sunrise highlights include:
- Setting 5 Guinness World Records
- Bungee Jumping from a Helicopter over Bondi Beach
- Setting himself on fire
- Riding bulls
- Wrestling crocodiles
- Broadcasting naked on the steps of the Opera House
- Riding a postie bike through the middle of Australia
- Four hours live broadcasting from a roller coaster, non-stop
Guinness World Records:
- The world’s largest tandem bungee jump - 300 metres
- Pulling on the most amount of underwear in 60 seconds
- Receiving the most kisses on the face in 60 seconds
- Leading the world's largest underwater dance class
- Bursting the most balloons in 1 minute
Grant gets his big racing break, driving for Dick Johnson Racing in the V8 Supercar Fijitsu Series for the next 2 years.
Grant is an official Olympic commentator for the Olympic Games in Athens, as the voice of Judo, Greco Roman Wrestling, European Handball and Table Tennis
2003
V8 BRute Championship - Round Winner Symmons Plains Tasmania, Race wins at Gold Coast Indy and Oran Park
The 24 Hour Race at Bathurst - 2nd in class, 6th outright in a Porsche GT3 with Tony Quinn
2002
V8 BRute Championship - 4 outright wins, 2 lap records, pole position at Bathurst and 2nd overall
2001
The V8 Ute racing series is created by Grants father Craig Denyer.
This was Grants first serious racing effort, finishing the year as the seasons highest placed rookie - 4th outright, with a pole position at Bathurst and several podiums.
Grant Continued in the V8 Ute series for 4 years, under the racing nickname 'Mad Dog', winning the Dunlop Trophy series, with a number of race wins and lap records
This was Grants first serious racing effort, finishing the year as the seasons highest placed rookie - 4th outright, with a pole position at Bathurst and several podiums.
Grant Continued in the V8 Ute series for 4 years, under the racing nickname 'Mad Dog', winning the Dunlop Trophy series, with a number of race wins and lap records
1999
Grants first ever car race. Bathurst GTP 3 Hour in a Mazda 626 - finished 2nd in class
Grant was offered a full-time position at Network 10 and worked on the V8 Supercar coverage as a Pit reporter & on Ten's National News Coverage
Grant moves from Prime TV Wagga to TEN Melbourne and then Sydney to take up a role as news presenter and pit lane reporter/commentator for TEN's Motorsport coverage
Grant was offered a full-time position at Network 10 and worked on the V8 Supercar coverage as a Pit reporter & on Ten's National News Coverage
Grant moves from Prime TV Wagga to TEN Melbourne and then Sydney to take up a role as news presenter and pit lane reporter/commentator for TEN's Motorsport coverage
1998
Grant joined Prime TV in Wagga Wagga as a Cadet Journalist
1997
Grant Won State karting title 'NSW Country Kart Champion 1999'
1984
7 year old Grant began tearing up the family farm in a go-karts and motor-bikes, and decided he wanted to race professionally
1982
Grant starts school Primary School
1977
Grant born in Gosford to parents Glynis and Craig Denyer
