Candice Wyatt

Career

After graduating from VCE in the rural Victorian town of Terang Candice completed a Bachelor of Arts Journalism at Deakin University in Geelong. From 2003–2005 Candice worked at Melbourne’s Werribee Times newspaper. In 2006 Candice moved interstate and began her broadcast journalism career at TNT a Seven Network affiliated TV station in Tasmania. While in Tasmania she reported on the Beaconsfield Mine Disaster which made international news headlines. In 2008 Candice moved to ABC Ballarat where she later became the Senior Journalist for the ABC rural bureau.

In 2010 Candice joined the Ten Network at its Melbourne station ATV10. For two years she was the station's crime reporter for Ten News Melbourne . In this role she reported on Jill Meagher's tragic death. She also chased drug mules to Malaysia and Indonesia and covered the disappearance of flight MH370. She was the first reporter to go live from Bali as Schapelle Corby was released from prison. Candice has also appeared on the Network's current affairs show The Project as a reporter and co-host.

In November 2014 she became the permanent co-anchor for Melbourne's Ten Eyewitness News with Stephen Quartermain. Candice co-anchored the bulletin until she was sacked in February 2017 without pay.

Personal life

Candice is an ambassador for the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation after losing her 56 year old mother to the disease in 2013. She enjoys spending her free time socialising. She is also an Essendon Football Club supporter.

She is the former girlfriend of Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell