As co-host of Big Mouth, the show where nothing is off-limits, Tony Squires is ready to dish the dirt on the Housemates.
Originally from Newcastle, Tony Squires has had an exciting career spanning the stage, music, radio and television.
Tony has been a highly successful journalist and media personality for over 20 years. His career as an actor started and ended with an auditions for NIDA, which he failed and from there he vowed to destroy all actors’ careers.
He then took up writing for the Sydney Morning Herald where he was a feature writer, columnist and section editor. He edited The Guide for a number of years as well as being deputy editor of the Sports section.
He made the switch to TV when he was asked to present for Foxtel’s Arena channel. “Inside the Arena” was a live to air television show, talking about television. From there he went on to hose The Fat on the ABC, and then 110% Tony Squires and also anchored Channel Seven’s Athens Olympic Coverage.
In 2005 Tony was appointed co-host of Sydney’s Vega 95.3FM rive time show with long time friend and co-host Rebecca Wilson. In 2006 they moved to the competitive Sydney Breakfast time slow and this year were joined by Mikey Robbins for the “Tony, Bec and Mikey show”.
He currently writes a weekly column about popular culture for the Sydney Telegraph.