Ryan Bridge

Ryan Bridge (born November 1987)^[1][2] is a New Zealand broadcaster who previously co-hosted the breakfast show AM on Three alongside Melissa Chan-Green and Bernadine Oliver-Kerby.^[2][3][4] Before this he previously hosted the Ryan Bridge Drive Show on Magic Talk radio.^[5][6][7]

Bridge grew up in the Kāpiti Coast District, where his first job was delivering newspapers.^[8] He was involved with the Youth Council and served as Youth MP for Darren Hughes.^[9]

When Bridge was 22 years old, he began working as a political reporter in the press gallery of the New Zealand Parliament.^[10][11][12] He was also Three's Beijing correspondent and business newsreader for Morning Report on Radio New Zealand.^[12][13]

Bridge has also worked on Three's previous current affairs show Story as a reporter and presenter, as well as Newshub on the same channel.^[12]

In 2021, Bridge replaced Duncan Garner on AM, a New Zealand morning breakfast show.^[14][15] He left the show in December 2023.^[16][17]

Bridge had been expected in late 2023 to host an upcoming current affairs show, Bridge on Three.^[18] It had been intended to replace The Project which finished in December 2023, although plans to launch the show fell through due to the closure of Newshub in 2024.^[19]

Bridge vive con su pareja Fergy y su beagle Fanny. ^{[ 11 ] [ 20 ]} No fue hasta 2021, cuando el anterior copresentador de AM, Mark Richardson, cuestionó su sexualidad en televisión en directo, que Bridge compartió públicamente que era gay. ^{[ 11 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ]} En junio de 2023, Bridge anunció que estaba comprometido. ^{[ 23 ]}