In a media career spanning more than 20 years, Alex Cullen has done it all – covering everything from the devastating illegal bear bile trade in Vietnam to sitting at the piano with Lionel Richie in his Beverly Hills home.
A country boy at heart, Alex has been lucky enough to interview some of the world’s biggest stars including Ricky Gervais, Jon Bon Jovi, Stevie Nicks, and cover some of the world’s major news and sporting events.
In 2025, Alex joined The Christian O’Connell Show in Melbourne, bringing his trademark energy and passion for sport to listeners each morning. As the top-rating breakfast team expands across Australia on the Gold FM network in 2026, Alex will play a key role in taking the show to audiences right across the country.
Alex grew up on a mixed farming property near Coonamble in western New South Wales. From an early age, he dreamed of a career in media, recording himself commentating imaginary tennis and footy matches on an old cassette player.
While completing a journalism degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Alex began his career in radio, presenting the weekend morning news on ABC Central West in Orange and working as an announcer at 2BS and B-Rock FM. He also took casual shifts at 2GB in Sydney, where he read the weekend overnight news and worked as a weekend reporter.
His first big break into television came in 2003 when he walked into Prime7 News in Wagga Wagga and asked for a job. In 2004, he moved to Western Australia to work as a reporter in the gold mining town of Kalgoorlie, before becoming a news reporter and sport presenter at Golden West News in Bunbury.
In 2006, Alex joined 7 News in Perth as a general reporter. Just three years later, in early 2009, he was promoted to a role in Sydney as the nightly sports presenter, reading the sport alongside legendary newsreader Ian Ross.
In 2019, after nearly a decade travelling the world – from the Czech Republic to New Zealand and everywhere in between – with public affairs program Sunday Night, the versatile and popular presenter joined the Today Show where he worked alongside Karl Stefanovic, Sarah Abo, Brooke Boney and Tim Davies and other regular team members.
In 2024 Alex realised his childhood dream of covering an Olympic and Paralympic games when the 9 Network and Wide World of Sports host Paris 2024.
Brain cancer is a cause close to Alex’s heart after his father Tom lost his two-year battle with the disease in February 2018. He has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the Cure Brain Cancer and RCD Foundations
Alex is married to The Australian Financial Review reporter Bonnie Campbell and dad to twin girls Audrey and Evie along with their youngest son Max.
