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Eden Gaha: from Vidiot host to Reveille president

Aussie expat Eden Gaha, who began his career as host of ABC's 1992 Vidiot, has now been named president of US production giant Reveille.

Aussie expat Eden Gaha, who began his career as host of ABC’s 1992 Vidiot and went on to work for US reality producer Mark Burnett has now been named president of production giant Reveille.

Part of the Shine group, Reveille was previously owned by Ben Silverman who sold it to Elisabeth Murdoch after becoming head of entertainment for NBC. It developed Ugly Betty, The Biggest Loser, Shear Genius, Kath & Kim, The Office, The Tudors, Little Britain and MasterChef USA.

The profile appointment will see Gaha will head the Reveille’s unscripted, creative, development, digital and brand integration departments.

As a right-hand man to Mark Burnett, Gaha joined Survivor and is now completing his fifth season as the exec producer of Celebrity Apprentice. Prior to that, he was a supervising producer on The Contender, Pirate Master and Rock Star.

In an interview with TV Tonight last year, Gaha said that after presenting Vidiot, Animal Hospital and Take 40 Australia, he wanted to produce but found it hard to be given the chance.

“I started by producing my own stories on Animal Hospital, and I begged Peter Meakin (then) at Channel Nine to give me a job on Current Affair’s Summer Edition just to prove I knew how to craft a piece.

“And they were on a one-day turn around too. I really enjoyed my time at Nine because you learned how to cover a lot with very little.”

He later followed his US wife to America and Gaha’s first gig was as Dressing Room Production Assistant on a VH1 Divas concert.

“I pretty much took any job I could find because as much as I’d achieved in Australia it didn’t mean anything creatively,” he says.

“I was using the little bit of producing I’d done as a calling card and showing it to as many people as possible. I met one person who would introduce me to the next and one thing led to another. The real important part was getting a gig as a producer on Survivor season 8.”

Of his newest appointment he said, “I am very fortunate to have been given this opportunity to guide an already successful company through the next phase of its continued growth. The media landscape continues to evolve, and new media increases the demand for entertaining and innovative content. As such, I am thrilled to work with both the creative, forward-thinking and multi-platform teams both at Reveille and in the Shine Group companies around the world.”

He begins in June.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

8 Responses

  1. I was wondering what Eden has been doing since disappearing from Australian TV. I’m glad he is doing so well, it would have taken a lot of work to get there though. His family must be extremely proud. I have watched his sister perform with John Farnham and also knew his brother Stuart.

  2. I have known Eden since his Vidiot days, there is no-one more deserving of this, he is one of the most inspirational industry identities I have ever met. He knew what he wanted at an early age and worked very hard to get where he is now, am so proud of you Eden.
    Stephen

  3. Eden’s success is down to pure hard work. I’ve known and worked with him and he has just proved that you make your own luck. From Dobbermans to Donald Trump. He also opens his home In L.A. to Australian actors having at go at pilot season. Vonce Colosomo and myself have slept there and all he asks to clean up after ourselves and try our best. Good on you mate, you make us proud.

  4. The Apprentice is very well produced and it’s good to see Eden on the credits after every ep… would give anything to work by his side on a show like that.

  5. ahhh i often wondered if it was Our Eden Gaha during the credits for Celebrity Apprentice.. now i know
    good on him..! is amazing how some people can make such a little go a very long way

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