| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Samantha Heathwood (maiden name) |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | May 25, 1985. As of 2025, she is around 40 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner / Boyfriend | Divorced. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| What happened to Samantha Heathwood? | After nine years at Channel Nine, Samantha Heathwood is set to move to Channel Seven. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 2 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | Australian |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Samantha Heathwood is an Australian journalist. For many years, she was a reporter and TV news presenter for Channel 9’s Nine Regional News. After working at Channel Nine for nine years, but now Samantha moved to Channel Seven in mid-2021.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Samantha Heathwood was born on May 25, 1985.
- When she was one year old, her family relocated to the city of Toowoomba in Southern Queensland, Australia, where she was raised.
- Samantha has a sister.
- She attended Fairholme College and later The Glennie School in Toowoomba from 1993 to 1999.
- After graduating from the Glennie School, Samantha moved to Brisbane, where she attended the University of Queensland from 2000 to 2003. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism.
- In 2006, Samantha met the man who would become her husband, fellow journalist Kieran Toohey, when she participated and won the Miss Showgirl contest.
- She later married Kieran and had two sons with him: James William Toohey, born on February 1st, 2011, and Henry Alexander Toohey, born in October 2013.
- Kieran and Samantha divorced some time later. Since then, Samantha has been raising her two sons as a single mother (when they’re not spending time with their father).
- A report from The Courier-Mail revealed that in August 2017, Sasha Mielczarek, a former Bachelorette star and a construction manager, went on a date with Samantha in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.
- After living in Sydney and Brisbane, Samantha returned home to Toowoomba in 2017.
- Currently, she is residing and working in Brisbane.
Work : Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth
- After graduating from the University of Queensland in 2003, Samantha spent a year gaining work experience and working for free as an intern for Today Tonight.
- She was then given her first broadcasting job in 2004 by WIN Television in Rockhampton. Samantha worked for WIN Television in Rockhampton until 2010 in different roles: newsreader, reporter, journalist, and TV presenter.
- From 2010 to 2012, Samantha relocated to Toowoomba, where she continued working for WIN Television as a news presenter.
- In 2012, Samantha and her family moved to Sydney, where she worked as a news producer and journalist for Nine News until 2014 when she took time off that she spent in Toowoomba in order to focus on raising her children after the dissolution of her marriage.
- Since 2015, Samantha has been working for Nine News in Brisbane as a news reporter and news presenter. She currently presents eight news bulletins.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Samantha has deep roots in Toowoomba: her grandfather was in charge of Heathwood Pharmacy and her sister had a shoe shop there as well.
- In January 2018, Samantha took her first-ever unaccompanied international flight. She went on a skiing trip in Aspen at the invitation of a friend while her sons spent the holidays with her ex-husband. Although she struggled with being away from her family, she has since described this trip as being life-changing.
- Samantha is a trained classical singer, though that has taken a backseat since she embarked on her journalism career.
- She cites convincing WIN to change the format of the news show to include a dual presenter as one of the biggest achievements of her career.
I have always admired Samantha as such an elegant young woman with such a professional way of delivery. Such a small world…apart from Toowoomba also being my home town, I was one of two staff to get jobs at Heathwoods Pharmacy and helped set up the place for opening. Alex and Jean were lovely people who moved from Sydney to open what was at the time a very modern large pharmacy in the middle of town!
Does Samantha Heathwood have family from the Country Town of Cracow, West of Brisbane? She looks like a girl I went to school with out there named Geraldine Heathwood.
Hi,
Was Samantha’s mother’s name Rosemary and was she in a wheelchair?
Samantha is a very professional TV news presenter, second to none, and I watch her presentation every evening.
She’s the finest newsreaders I have come across