Television Career
Durie has hosted and featured in over 35 prime-time lifestyle shows and appeared on television shows all around the world. The top-rating television shows he has hosted or featured in include The Outdoor Room, Australia’s Best Backyards, The Block, Backyard Blitz, Torvil and Dean's Dancing on Ice, Disney on Ice, Cirque Du Soleil Specials, White Room Challenge and many more.
He has received seven Australian TV Logie awards including the Logie award for Most Popular New Male Talent and six consecutive Logie awards for hosting the Most Popular Australian Lifestyle Program for Backyard Blitz.
Durie also appeared regularly on The Oprah Winfrey Show following his first appearance in November 2006. Durie appeared on a number of Winfrey's shows during his five-year contract to Harpo and publicly gives credit to Oprah for his USA career.
In the US, Durie's show The Outdoor Room on HGTV is now in its fourth season. He has also hosted nine independent shows on HGTV including HGTV Showdown, HGTV Dream Home, HGTV Green Home, The Rose Parade and currently hosts America’s longest running gardening program on PBS, The Victory Garden. Durie has also appeared in other top brand name programs in Australia and the USA including Dancing with the Stars, 60 minutes, Celebrity Millionaire, The Price is Right, Better Homes and Gardens, Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, E news, NBC Today Show, Donahue, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and most recently was host and judge on the popular US series Top Design in Australia.
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