Gretel Killeen

Most commonly known as the host of the phenomenally successful television program Big Brother, Gretel Killeen is also a best-selling international author of nineteen books and winner of the 2001 MO Award for Best Female Comic.
In her earlier years Gretel had the hallmarks of an academic - school captain, a member of the Australian Debating Team - however she dropped out of law school after six weeks, when she couldn't find the exam room. Six months later she accidentally started a career as a stand-up comic when she performed a serious poem and the audience laughed.

Since then Gretel has worked continuously in print, television and radio regularly making Australian audiences laugh. For several years she wrote a popular weekly column in The Australian Magazine and this collection became the bestseller, Visible Panty Line. Gretel is also the publisher of numerous bestselling books for younger readers, including the My Sister Series, My Life is a Toilet and My Life is a Wedgie.

On television she featured as a 'Beauty' on Beauty and the Beast and appeared as Ray Martin's wife for three years in the cult classic A Town Like Dallas (The Midday Show). Known as the 'Queen' of voice-overs for over fifteen years, Gretel also shared a ratings-winning breakfast show on Austereo.