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Name Jerrie Demasi

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB Born in December 1987. As of 2024, she is around 37 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner Married to her husband, Michael Genovese. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Jerrie Demasi is an Australian journalist and the Chief Crime Editor at Nine News Perth. She is also a singer and has been the lead vocalist of bands Nylon and Felix.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

Jerrie Demasi was born in December 1987 in a Greek Italian family in Northbridge, a suburb of Perth, Australia.
She has a younger sister, Elle Demasi, who is a primary school teacher.
After graduating high school in Northbridge, she attended the Edith Cowan University of Western Australia in Joondalup, also in Perth. Jerrie graduated with a Bachelor of Communications degree in 2010, followed by a Graduate Diploma of Broadcasting in 2011.

She initially auditioned for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) to pursue her other passion, Musical Theatre. She was accepted but dropped out after a semester when she realized it wasn’t the right career path for her.
Jerrie met the man who would become her husband, fellow journalist Michael ‘Gena’ Genovese, at the WA Ball. Michael was attending one of Jerrie’s gigs with her cover band Felix. He forgot his phone in her car after she gave him a lift home. When Michal came to collect his phone, Jerrie’s mother asked him to stay for dinner. Soon after, Jerrie and Michael started dating.
Michael proposed to Jerrie in Athens, Greece, at the upscale rooftop restaurant Grand Bretagne.

On February 2nd, 2019, the couple got married at the same Northbridge Greek Orthodox Church where her grandparents’ and parents’ weddings had taken place.
The couple’s first child, a daughter named Tommie (after Demasi’s grandmother), was born in August 2022. Tommie’s birth weight was 2.6 kilograms, and she hadn’t cried for 24 hours after her birth due to her premature birth.
It was important to Jerrie to deliver her baby naturally, but she wasn’t dilating properly. Neither she nor the baby was safe, so she had an emergency C-section.

Currently, she resides in Perth, Australia with her husband and young child.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Jerrie was a newsreader and journalist for 6PR Fairfax Radio from 2012 to 2013.

She was then a video journalist for WA Today’s Fairfax Online from 2013 to 2014.
Jerrie is currently a reporter and the Chief Crime Editor for Nine News. She has been there since 2014. Jerrie relocated to Los Angeles for a few months, where she worked for Nine News as a freelancer while pursuing opportunities with American networks. However, after her pregnancy, she continues to live and work in Australia.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

Jerrie’s sister Elle dated Australian football player Nic Naitanui from 2011 to 2017, and she received a lot of media attention during that time.
Jerrie loves dogs and frequently volunteers with charities like Dogs’ Refuge Home.
A finalist in the Miss Universe Western Australia pageant, Jerrie is also a proficient singer. During her time as a lead vocalist for Felix, the band was a support act for artists like Ne-Yo, Ice Cube, and De La Soul.

Jerrie has also been part of music festivals with her other band Nylon. They performed at Summadayze and Future Music.
Jerrie loves travelling. One of her favourite destinations is the Amalfi Coast in Southern Italy.
She’s also a fan of cars and has fond memories of the Mercedes Benz her parents had when she was growing up. Jerrie would love to drive a BMW series 5.