![]() ![]() The couple co-presented a lifestyle television series, The Home Show, on the ABC from 1990 until 1995, when they split up. In 1985, Tabberer announced that she was in a relationship with journalist Richard Zachariah. The pair separated after 17 years of marriage, although they rekindled their friendship before Prossimo's death from a heart attack in 1996. In that same year, Tabberer gave birth to their son, Francesco, who died of sudden infant death syndrome when ten days old. Īfter moving to Sydney with her daughters in 1960, Tabberer was introduced by Helmut Newton to Ettore Prossimo, an Italian restaurateur, whom she married in 1967. ![]() The demands of her modelling career, however, saw that marriage end after seven years. They had two daughters: Brooke and Amanda. Maggie took her surname from her first husband, Charles Tabberer, whom she married at the age of 17. On her show she "visits the homes of various Australian celebrities and elites to discuss their lives, careers, tragedies, and triumphs." Personal life At Home With on Australian pay TV channel Bio. Since 2005, she has hosted her own television interview show, Maggie. She was the first person to win consecutive awards, although Graham Kennedy had already won three non-consecutive Gold Logies by 1970. Tabberer's appearances on Beauty and the Beast made her a household name, and she began hosting her own daily chat show, Maggie, for which she won two consecutive Gold Logies, in 19. ![]() Tabberer began appearing on television in 1964, as one of the "beauties" on the panel talk show Beauty and the Beast (the "beast" being the show's host: Eric Baume until 1965, and then Stuart Wagstaff). Tabberer stayed with Women's Weekly for fifteen years until 1996. ![]() She remained with the paper for sixteen years, until billionaire Kerry Packer asked her to become fashion editor of Australian Women's Weekly magazine in 1981, and she soon became the public face of the magazine, frequently appearing on its cover and television advertising. Tabberer began working in publishing when she wrote a fashion column, "Maggie Says", for the Daily Mirror newspaper in 1963. Ī portrait of her by Australian artist Paul Newton was a finalist in the 1999 Archibald Prize. In 1981, she launched a plus-size clothing label called Maggie T. In 1967 she started a public relations company, Maggie Tabberer & Associates, which took on many fashion-related clients and assignments. Tabberer stayed well connected to the fashion industry, however. While living in Melbourne in 1960, she won 'Model of the Year', and moved to Sydney to take advantage of the modelling opportunities there, but she chose to end her modelling career at the age of 25 after she began to lose her slim figure. In her early twenties she attended a modelling school and at the age of 23 was discovered by photographer Helmut Newton, who mentored her and launched a highly successful modelling career. At the age of 14 while attending her sister's wedding, Tabberer was spotted by a photographer and as a result got her first modelling job, a one-off assignment. Tabberer was born in Parkside, South Australia. She is best known for her former long time position as Fashion Editor of the Australian Women's Weekly Biography Modelling and fashion career Margaret May "Maggie" Tabberer AM (nee Trigar, born 11 December 1936) is an Australian fashion, publishing and media/television personality, who is a dual recipient of the Gold Logie, and who founded her own fashion label and PR companies. ![]()
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