Bio
Born in Newcastle in 1972, Pete comes from a family of five kids, of which he is the oldest and the bossiest. Due to the exuberance and volume of his younger twin sisters, he is one of the only kids in Australia who actually asked their parents to send him to boarding school, where he spent six very peaceful years.
In his final year of boarding school he decided it would be more fun to take a year off before heading to uni, so he hopped on a plane and spent a very chilly 12 months showing the Canadians how to ride a skateboard and how to do back flip somersaults off the wharf in Englee, Newfoundland - yeah, that weird place from The Shipping News.
Upon returning to Australia, he studied for a bachelor of communications but the travel bug was still biting. To feed this craving, money was in order, so Pete tried many jobs, including Hotel porter, working in a crystal shop and even picking up dead bodies for the police. Fate stepped in though, in the form of a substantial insurance payout after a serious motorbike accident and Pete packed his bags and headed off to see the world.
Then it was all travel and work - doing everything from cooking in kitchens in Soho, working in the popular Lush shop in the King's Road Chelsea, serving the likes of Robbie Williams, Madonna and Sir Bob Geldof to painting houses in Phoenix, Arizona. After spending all his savings he then headed back to Sydney but soon got itchy feet again and within a month moved to New Zealand with his then Kiwi girlfriend.
In NZ he worked bars and restaurants but soon discovered a love of wine. Pete decided to take up his studies again and completed a diploma in viticulture. Back in Australia, he moved to The Hunter region where he got a job in a winery before returning to Sydney to work in a boutique bottle shop. It was here that he applied for the first series of Big Brother. He proved to be an incredibly popular figure with the viewers and also quite a controversial one. (Who can forget the dancing doona' incident?)
After leaving the house, in 2001, he soon got a job with Sydney radio station Nova 96.9 as a street reporter and then received a call to come and join TV Week magazine as an entertainment reporter, where he worked until 2008 . Along with that, he co-hosting the pop culture chat show on Foxtel music channel Max for four years and has provided weekly insider TV reports for breakfast radio nationally and can be heard every Tuesday morning on 2DayFM with Kyle and Jackie O. Between 2008 to 2010 he co hosted his own drive time radio show, with Sammy Power, on the Sunshine Coast before returning to Sydney were he took up as Entertainment Reporter for The Circle on Channel Ten before moving onto Kerri-Anne’s couch were he reports all the gossip, five days a week.