Angela Pippos

Angela Athena Pippos (born 29 December 1969^{[citation needed]}), is an Australian journalist, television/radio presenter, author, MC and public speaker, of Greek heritage.

Pippos completed an Honours degree in Politics at the University of Adelaide and began her career as a researcher and reporter with ABC Television in her hometown of Adelaide.^{[citation needed]} After three years, she was lured across to ABC television news in Melbourne in 1997, even though the sports reporting position did not fit in with her plans of becoming a political journalist.^{[citation needed]} Within a few months she was presenting the sports segment at the ABC News Victoria desk on weekends and then was promoted to weeknights alongside Ian Henderson. She has also been a guest presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne, as well as a columnist and feature writer for the AFL Website and the Sunday Age.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2007, after nearly 14 years, Pippos resigned from the ABC.^{[citation needed]}

Pippos is the author of The Goddess Advantage – One Year in the Life of a Football Worshipper—her diary of the 2005 AFL season from her perspective as an Adelaide Crows supporter—which was published in 2006 by Text Publishing.^[1] Her second book, Breaking the Mould – Taking a Hammer to Sexism in Sport was published in February 2017 by Affirm Press.^[2]

Pippos was asked by the Australian Labor Party to stand for the Victorian seat of Williamstown, vacated by former Premier Steve Bracks in 2007, but she turned it down.^[3]

In 2021, Pippos nominated her friend Zoe Daniel to run as a community independent candidate for the Division of Goldstein through the Voices of Goldstein.^[4][5] Following Daniel's success at the 2022 Australian federal election Pippos joined Daniel's staff as a political advisor alongside Jim Middleton.

For just over two years, in 2008 and 2009, Pippos co-hosted the Sport 927 radio breakfast program with 1990 AFL premiership player Michael Christian.^[3] It was the first time Sport 927 had had a male and female breakfast partnership on the radio station.

Since 2010, Pippos has had a weekly (Thursday) spot called The Pippos Report on Denis Walter's 3AW radio program, as a social commentator.^[6]

On 28 January 2013, Pippos gave birth to a boy. He is the first child for Pippos and her partner Simon.

In 2011 Pippos, a well-known supporter of the club, was made an Ambassador of the Adelaide Football Club.^[7]

Pippos is a Patron of the National Jockeys Trust which provides financial support to jockeys and their families in the event of serious injury, illness or death.^[8]

Pippos has been an ambassador for Responsible Gambling Awareness Week for a number of years.^[9]

• 2006: The Goddess Advantage – One Year in the Life of a Football Worshipper (ISBN 9781921145155)
• 2017: Breaking the Mould – Taking a Hammer to Sexism in Sport (ISBN 9781925344585)

• Angela Pippos Official Website
• Pippos, Angela (1969–) at The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia