Jo Beth Taylor made her big splash on Australian television during the 1990s when, at 22, she became the youngest woman to host a show in prime time, the top-rating Australia’s Funniest Home Videos. Jo Beth co-hosted popular variety show Hey Hey It’s Saturday with Daryl Somers before travelling to Ethiopia and Uganda to film a World Vision documentary and meet her sponsor child.
She says “My son doesn’t think I’m going to do very well at all. He thinks I’m a
wimp.
Mums are not cool when you are 14. I think he is really worried
about me to be honest but I’m going to do him proud. I’ve been a single
parent now for a long time and the monotony of that, getting up making
lunches and doing the same thing over and over, not only single
parenting but parenting in general, is really hard. I’ve given so much
to my son and I just kind of thought it would be nice to challenge
myself in whatever way.”
Lives: Queensland
After a few years out of the public eye, Jo Beth appeared as a contestant on Dancing With The Stars in 2010 where she partnered with professional dancer Dannial Gosper. In the same year, Jo Beth appeared on the brief reprisal of Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
Before her start in television, Jo Beth had a burgeoning singing career, releasing her debut album, 99 Reasons, in 1991 with the single of the same name reaching #31 on the ARIA singles chart. Jo Beth co-wrote the album with her friend, American pop star, Debbie Gibson.
Originally from Perth, Jo Beth now lives in Queensland with her son, Christian. For the past six years she has dedicated her life to Iyengar Yoga and has been studying as a Yoga teacher trainee.
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