1. Lisa Curry was the chair of the National Australia Day Council from 2000 to 2008.
17 Facts About Lisa Curry
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Lisa Curry was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder, and won 15 national long course open titles.
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Lisa Curry competed in the 1980,1984 and 1992 Olympics; the 1978 and 1982 World Championships; and the 1978,1982 and 1990 Commonwealth Games.
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On 31 December 1982, Lisa Curry was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire "in recognition of service to the sport of swimming".
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Lisa Curry was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985.
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At the 1994 Australia Day Honours, Lisa Curry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia "in recognition of service to the sport of swimming".
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On 14 July 2000, Lisa Curry was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for "her significant contribution as a competitor in swimming".
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On 1 January 2001, Lisa Curry was awarded the Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society through swimming and the National Australia Day Council".
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In 2011, Lisa Curry appeared as a celebrity contestant on the first season of Nine Network's Australian reality series The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
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In January 2017, Lisa Curry was revealed as a celebrity contestant on the third season of Network Ten's Australian reality series I'm a Celebrity.
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On 8 March 2017, Lisa Curry was the 9th celebrity eliminated from the series after 41 days in the jungle coming in 6th place.
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Lisa Curry was the subject of an episode of Australian Story, on the ABC, called The Deep End, which aired in June 2022.
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In 2022, Lisa Curry appeared on the fourth season of The Masked Singer Australia as Caterpillar and was the second contestant to be revealed.
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Lisa Curry has a partnership with Naturopath Jeff Butterworth in the company Happy Healthy YOU, featuring the products Happy Hormones, Happy Greens and Happy Turmeric.
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Lisa Curry was married to Grant Kenny, former ironman surf lifesaver and Olympic bronze medallist, in 1986.
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In 2008 Lisa Curry had a heart surgery operation to implant a defibrillator after being found to have an irregular heartbeat as a consequence of a viral infection.
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In October 2016, Lisa Curry announced her engagement to entertainer Mark Andrew Tabone.