Cameron Williams

Cameron Williams is an Australian journalist, born in Emerald, Queensland. Williams is currently sports editor/presenter and fill in host on the Nine Network's breakfast programme, "Today".cite web|url=http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=172294|title=Cameron Williams|accessdate=2007-06-11 |format= |work=ninemsn.com.au|date=2007]

Career

Williams's journalism career began 1984 with a cadetship at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane. From there he moved to The Australian offices in Melbourne, where he wrote sports features and columns before joining the Seven Network in 1988. Apart from his role as a sports presenter on Seven News, Williams occasionally hosted "Sportsworld". He was a presenter for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where he called Matt Ryan's equestrian double gold for Australia.

In 1996 he signed as the face of Fox Sports, anchoring NRL On Fox, Dally M Awards, Super 12 Rugby, Wimbledon, Winter Olympics, the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and Fox Sports News. In 2001, amid scandal, Fox Sports declined to renew his contractcite news|author=Kibble, Emma|coauthors=Yeaman, Simon|title=Fox drops sportscaster|publisher=The Advertiser (Adelaide)|date=2001-08-28|page=20] .

After this, Williams was a breakfast announcer at 2HD in Newcastle. Williams also owns a Newcastle modelling and talent agency, "Models and Actors".

Nine Network

Cameron has been the official sports editor/presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast programme, "Today" since January 2006. Occasionally, he also presents the Nine Network's coverage of horse racing, swimming and other sporting events..

In late December 2007 and early January 2008, Williams co-hosted alongside Lisa Wilkinson for 2 weeks while Karl Stefanovic was on holidays.

Controversy

*In 1984, Williams posed nude for a centrefold in Cleo magazine under the pseudonym "Jim Elliot".cite news|last=Koch|first=Phillip|title=Shock of the nude|publisher=The Daily Telegraph (Australia)|date=1996-12-01|page=168]

*In 2001, Williams was charged with the indecent assault of a female colleaguecite news|last=O'Neill|first=Janine|title=Bra case may bring TV star undone|publisher=The Courier-Mail|date=2001-07-27|page=5] . The charges were dismissed for lack of evidencecite news|title=Sex counts against TV presenter dismissed|publisher=The Advertiser (Adelaide)|date=2001-07-28|page=13] .

References

External links

* [http://today.ninemsn.com.au/ Official website]
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