Tracey Holmes

Tracey Holmes
Holmes and husband Stan Grant in 2008
Born	1966 Sydney
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse	Stan Grant[1]
Children	3[2]

Tracey Holmes (born 1966), an Australian journalist, is a presenter on ABC NewsRadio, since January 2014, with an extensive career in television and radio, specialising predominantly in sport.

Career

Born 1966 in Sydney to a surfing family Holmes began her work in 1989 as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was Australia's first female host of a national sports programme, Grandstand.^[3] From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a media spokesperson for the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). In 1998, she co-hosted SBS' presentation of the FIFA World Cup. She appeared on the nightly World Cup Show during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

From 1998 to 2000, she worked as a sports presenter for television station Channel Seven. Her contract was terminated amid some controversy in mid-2000.^[4] Holmes then moved overseas with her husband, journalist Stan Grant, and worked as a sports broadcaster in Hong Kong and Beijing.^[1][2]

In 2006, Holmes returned to Sydney. She acted as fill-in presenter for Richard Glover's radio drive program on

In 2009 Holmes left Grandstand to again follow her husband who was working for

Holmes returned to the ABC in 2014, as a news anchor on ABC NewsRadio.[5]

In 2021, Holmes was at the

In October 2023, Holmes announced her resignation from ABC ending her time with the broadcaster on 30 November.[7]

Personal life

Holmes started a relationship with Stan Grant in 2000, and this caused them to leave Channel 7. In the next year, they had a son, Jesse, and soon afterward Grant was offered a broadcasting position with CNN in Hong Kong. It was there that Holmes studied Buddhism. Two years later, Grant was offered a CNN correspondent position in Beijing and they moved to mainland China.^[8]

In the late 2010s, Holmes was made aware of how her maternal great-great-grandfather was a Joseph Lin, a doctor of

When their Chinese family name caused teasing of the children, the name was changed to Holmes, the name of Elizabeth's first husband who had died. Holmes and Grant have claimed that people in China looked at their son, Jesse, and noted Chinese facial features.[8]

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