Jacki MacDonald

Jacki MacDonald is a retired Australian television personality.

Born Jenine MacDonald (26 November 1953) in Blackall, Queensland, but raised in Brisbane, Queensland. MacDonald appeared on a number of local programs in the 1970s including her own show, Jacki and all that Jazz, on QTQ-9 and a daily breakfast program, The Jacki Mac Show, on TVQ-0. In 1978 she was GTV-9's replacement for Daryl Somers and puppet sidekick Ossie Ostrich when the pair moved to 0-10. After she presented The Super Saturday Show for several months, Somers returned to Nine and she joined them as co-presenter of a revival of Hey Hey It's Saturday, a role which she would continue for nine years. For a short time MacDonald was also an anchor of TVQ-0's Eyewitness News bulletins in 1983, which made her one of the few presenters to appear for two different networks at the same time (in her case, the Nine and Ten networks)

During the 1970s and 1980s she won several TV Week Logie Awards for Most Popular Female Personality in Queensland.

MacDonald kept out of the spotlight following her She left Hey Hey and television in 1988 but returned to television in 1991 to host a season of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show after Graham Kennedy left. In 1982 she co-hosted TV program Healthy Wealthy And Wise for two years. She has made occasional television appearances since as well as appearing speaking on radio.

She co-founded the popular Eat Street Northshore night market/food venue on the banks of the Brisbane River with Peter Hackworth, John Stainton and John Harrison.