Sarrah Le Marquand

Sarrah Le Marquand (born 12 August 1976[citation needed]) is an Australian journalist and media commentator.[1] She is currently the editor-in-chief of Stellar, a weekly magazine available in The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun. Le Marquand is also a regular guest and panellist on television shows The Project on Network 10 and Today on Nine Network, as well as a regular commentator on Sky News Australia, Q&A, The Drum, A Current Affair, The Morning Show, Sunrise and ABC Local Radio.

Early life

Le Marquand was born in Sydney. Her older brother, Steve Le Marquand, is a film and stage actor. Le Marquand studied at the University of Sydney and graduated with an honours degree in Government in 2000.[2]

Career

Early on in her career, Le Marquand worked as a magazine entertainment reporter at Pacific Magazines and was the regular film critic on Sunrise before joining The Daily Telegraph in 2005 as a television writer.

In 2008 she was appointed features editor of The Daily Telegraph and in 2014 she was appointed opinion editor. In 2015 she became the founding editor of RendezView,[3] the opinion column for News Corp Australia.

Le Marquand's opinion columns have attracted publicity for her often controversial stance on issues such as feminism, gender equality and parenting.[4]

After making her first television appearance on Sunrise as a film reviewer in 2002, a guest appearance that turned into a regular role for three years, Le Marquand returned to the breakfast show in 2010 as a weekly panellist on Kochie's Angels.[citation needed] In 2014 she joined the Today show as a weekly panellist and in 2016 become a regular co-host of The Project.[5]

In August 2016 Le Marquand launched the magazine Stellar, overseeing its re-branding from Sunday Style.[6] The magazine has attracted attention both in Australia and internationally for cover interviews with Nicole Kidman,[7] Katy Perry,[8] Janet Jackson, Karl Stefanovic,[9] Jessica Simpson, Bindi Irwin,[10] Lisa Wilkinson and Jennifer Hawkins.

In 2017 she was singled out for favourable mention on the television show Media Watch[11] for having the “last laugh” in a panel discussion on Today about conspiracy theories of Melania Trump allegedly hiring a body double.

In September 2019 Le Marquand announced Stellar would no longer ask female celebrities being profiled in the magazine about their family plans. She stated that, “for a lot of people that are secretly struggling with pregnancy loss or having fertility issues, it's actually a question that really cuts them to the core. We felt as a magazine that we didn't want to be playing that role anymore."[12]

Personal life

Le Marquand lives in Sydney with her husband and their two sons.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Corporation, Australian Broadcasting (2015). "Sarrah Le Marquand". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  2. ^ "10 Career Advice Questions with Sarrah Le Marquand". www.opencolleges.edu.au.
  3. ^ "News Corp launches female-focused site RendezView - AdNews". www.adnews.com.au.
  4. ^ ""BAD FOR THE ECONOMY": Writer says stay-at-home moms should be illegal". Fox News. 29 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Was Australia 'settled' or 'invaded'?". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. 30 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Over 15.7 million Australians read newspapers in print or online". Roy Morgan.
  7. ^ "Nicole Kidman Poses Soaking Wet for Her Sexiest Magazine Cover in Years". E! News. 27 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Katy Perry Reveals Why She and Taylor Swift Aren't 'Very Close'". Entertainment Tonight. March 2020.
  9. ^ "Karl Stefanovic's Stellar magazine cover impresses Sylvia Jeffreys: 'Is that Brad Pitt?'". celebrity.nine.com.au. 21 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Bindi Irwin lost her dad, Steve, 13 years ago. Here's what her life looks like now". Mamamia. 21 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Melania body double bubble". 23 October 2017 – via www.abc.net.au.
  12. ^ "The Project: Push To Stop Asking Women About Baby Plans | 10 daily". 10daily.com.au.