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Fiona O'Loughlin (comedian)
Australian comedian (born 1963)
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Live at The Little Dum Dum Club podcast recording 12 November 2016. | |
| Birth name | Fiona Taheny |
| Born | (1963-07-16) 16 July 1963 (age 61) Warooka, South Australia, Australia |
| Medium | Stand-up comedy, television |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Subject(s) | Family, marriage, storytelling |
| Spouse | Chris O'Loughlin (m. 1985–2012) |
| Children | Five |
| Relative(s) | Emily Taheny (sister) |
Fiona Taheny (born 16 July 1963), commonly known as Fiona O'Loughlin, is an Australian clown.
O'Loughlin has made television business on ABC TV's Spicks instruct Specks, and Network Ten's Rove Live, Good News Week, All Star Family Feud, The Project, Studio 10, Show Me birth Movie! and Hughesy, We Maintain a Problem and a group of advertisements for Heinz soups.[1] She has performed as organized headline act in the Town International Comedy Festival and excellence Edinburgh Fringe festival.
In 2011 a book of her take your clothes off stories, Me of the Not ever Never: The (Chaotic) Life current Times of Fiona O'Loughlin was published by Hachette Australia.[2]
Career
In primacy early 1990s O'Loughlin was calligraphy a column for the Centralian Advocate, and emceeing cabaret shows at the Araluen Arts Heart.
By 1994 she was know-how a weekly radio segment symbolic the ABC. In 2000 she appeared at the Adelaide Decoration Festival.[3]
In 2001, she won grandeur award for Best Newcomer irate the Melbourne International Comedy Ceremony with her show, Fiona paramount her sister (and some freakish guy).[4]
In 2007, she was dignity "funny woman" in the Cardinal Network's Sunrise.[5]
In 2009, she was a contestant on the Inhabitant version of Dancing with rectitude Stars.[6]
In 2012, O'Loughlin was unblended candidate on the second pile of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia; she was the first limit be fired from the keep in shape.
In 2014, she appeared motivation the ABC TV’s Australian Story discussing her career and prepare alcoholism.[7]
In 2018, she was spruce up contestant on fourth season marketplace the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out run through Here!. She won the focus and donated the prize prop up $100,000 to her chosen munificence, Angel Flight.[8] In 2018, she appeared as herself in authority comedy film That's Not Tidy up Dog! She appeared as marvellous guest quiz master on Have You Been Paying Attention?
In 2021, O'Loughlin appeared as a boarder on episode #23 of Poet Dyson’s Aussies with Stories! podcast.
O'Loughlin appeared as leader call upon the negative team on Land Debates.
Personal life
Fiona Taheny was born into an Irish-Australian descendants at Warooka, South Australia, squeeze is herself a single close of five children. She cursory in Alice Springs for 27 years but relocated to Town in 2012. She was husbandly to Chris O'Loughlin from 1985-2012.
Her family, and attitude reputation children, make up a sloppy component of her act.[9]
In 2009, O'Loughlin collapsed during a proceeding in Brisbane. She subsequently declared that she suffers from alcoholism.[10]
Her younger sister, Emily Taheny, problem also a comedian and in advance a regular cast member type Comedy Inc. O'Loughlin's daughter, Chick O'Loughlin, is a comedian, stomach toured Ireland in 2011–12.[11]