Megan Mansell

Megan Mansell
Born	Megan Annear (1990-07-24) 24 July 1990 (age 34)
Spouse	Guy Mansell ​ ​ (m. 2020)​ [1]
Children	1
Career
Show	The Edge Breakfast with Clint, Meg & Dan
Station	The Edge
Network	MediaWorks New Zealand
Time slot	6 am – 10 am
Country	New Zealand

Megan Mansell (née Annear; born 24 July 1990) is a New Zealand broadcaster. She is a co-host on The Edge Breakfast with Clint, Meg & Dan.

Early life

Mansell was born on 24 July 1990 in Lower Hutt.[2] She studied at the New Zealand Broadcasting School at Ara Institute of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand.[3]

Career

Mansell started her radio career co-hosting the breakfast show on Classic Hits in Queenstown. In 2013, she began hosting The Edge Workdays of Awesome on radio station The Edge. In late 2017, she became a co-host of The Edge Breakfast with Dom, Meg & Randell, with Dom Harvey and Clint Randell.[4] In the 2020 New Zealand Radio Awards her team of breakfast hosts were finalists for Best Breakfast Show – Music Network.[5] Harvey left the show in July 2021, leading to a change in the show to The Edge Breakfast with Meg & Randell, then The Edge Breakfast with Nickson, Meg & Eli in 2022, and The Edge Breakfast with Clint, Meg & Dan in 2023.

In 2016, she launched a YouTube channel focusing on fashion and beauty, and in 2019 she received the Supreme Award for Influencer of the Year from fashion magazine Miss FQ.[6]

She is the inspiration behind the Urban Dictionary definition "Doing a Meg"[7]

Personal life

In 2018, she became engaged to co-worker Guy Mansell, and they married on 21 March 2020.[1][8] They have a daughter, Daisy, born on 24 October 2021.[9][10]

References

1. "Megan & Guy". New Zealand Weddings. 1 February 2021.
2. "My Sunday: The Edge's Megan Annear". Stuff. 24 February 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
3. "Megan Annear". www.ara.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
4. "What The Edge host Megan Mansell is into right now | Ensemble Magazine". www.ensemblemagazine.co.nz. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
5. "NZBS features at the New Zealand Radio Awards 2020". New Zealand Broadcasting School. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
6. "Megan Mansell by Outspoken by Odd". outspokenbyodd.co.nz/. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
7. "Urban Dictionary: Doing a Meg". Urban Dictionary. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
8. "Megan Annear from The Edge announces engagement, tearfully explains Guy Mansell's romantic proposal". Newshub. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
9. Barton, Monika (9 April 2021). "The Edge radio host Meg Mansell announces she's pregnant with first baby". Newshub. Archived from the original on 8 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
10. Barton, Monika (27 October 2021). "The Edge radio host Meg Mansell welcomes 'perfect' baby daughter Daisy". Newshub. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.