Introduction :

• Denham Hitchcock is a popular ‘Sunday Night’ news reporter for Australia’s 7 News.
• His career of more than two decades has seen him cover major news stories and world events.
• Denham is best known for his versatility. He can conduct serious sit-down interviews or be in high-pressure situations. Alternatively, he can be found suspended from bridges or riding racehorses at full speed.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

• Denham married his Brazilian girlfriend Mari Borges at the age of 43, in early 2019. They live in Sydney, Australia. Their daughter Kaia was born at the Gold Coast Private Hospital in August 2020.

Early Life and Education :

• Denham was born in 1976 in Sydney, Australia. His father was a newsman.
• At the age of 14, tragedy struck when he was out with his father, Kevin. They were swinging over a river on a rope from a tree. His father clipped the bank and fell into the water. Realising his father was in trouble, Denham pulled him from the water and placed the call to emergency services. It would be four months before his father returned home, but unfortunately, as a quadriplegic.
• It was then that he had to grow up and become the man of the family, helping to raise his little sister.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

• Denham left high school at age 18 and started work immediately in the news media, answering phones.
• Within six months, he was working first as a researcher, and then a producer for weekly current affairs show The Times.
• He spent two years in the United Kingdom working for Reuters, BSkyB, and GMTV.
• It was at this time that he got the travel bug and so left work to spend a year backpacking around the world before returning to Australia.
• In 2010, he joined Nine Network. He took up the post of their US correspondent, and through this work, he broke major historical news events.

• Denham has travelled to the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Syria, Iraq, and Samoa in his work as a foreign correspondent.
• In 2015, he made the documentary ‘Inside San Pedro Prison,’ retracing the footsteps of another Australian who paid to live there as a tourist for a year.
• Denham currently reports for 7Network Australia, Sunday Night programme.
• On the more glamourous side, Denham has covered four Oscar ceremonies. He has been fortunate enough to complete profile interviews with Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Lionel Ritchie and Dolly Parton, to name but a few.
• In 2018 and 2019, Denham and his wife restored a second-hand 46ft Northshore yacht, called Latitude. They later set sail to Fiji on their first open water adventure. 7 News Australia covered the story.
• In January 2023, after having worked as a TV journalist for 28 years, Denham announced that he is stepping out on a new path. He isn’t defecting to a rival network, but instead plans to sail his boat around the Pacific Ocean after almost three decades as a TV journalist.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

• Denham’s father used to read to him literature classics such as Moby Dick and Winnie the Pooh as a young boy. He also introduced him to Shakespeare.
• When Denham is not working, he loves the beach life surfing on Sydney’s North Shore. This is where he met his wife.
• He proposed while out surfing, he says it was a way to stop her stealing his waves.
• He loves being outdoors and taking part in physical exercise.
• At times in his career, Denham has spent up to six months away from home.

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