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Deal or No Deal star Grant Denyer makes shock revelation about his career as he prepares to celebrate 25 years in television

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He is a Gold Logie winner and a long-time fan favorite. And now Grant Denyer (pictured) will celebrate 25 years on television.

He is a Gold Logie winner and a long-time fan favorite.

And now Grant Denyer will celebrate 25 years on television.

But the Deal or No Deal host has made a shocking confession about his first days on the job as a young reporter.

“I realized quickly that he was a terrible journalist,” he said in a new interview with the courier mail on Friday.

He continued: ‘I didn’t know much about the world and I remember being in a fatal car accident as one of my first stories.

“It was all quite graphic and quite serious, you know, seeing your first deceased body, and I thought, ‘Hmm, I’m not sure I’m cut out for this.’

He is a Gold Logie winner and a long-time fan favorite. And now Grant Denyer (pictured) will celebrate 25 years on television.

Elsewhere in the chat, Grant, who began his career at Prime TV in the New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga, said he felt “fake” and a “pretender” from his very day at work.

Adding that he was “terrified,” Grant explained: “AndYou’re in a room full of real journalists who have gone to university and I barely made it out of high school.’

Grant, originally from Gosford on the New South Wales Central Coast, eventually landed a high-profile job as a meteorologist at Seven’s Sunrise in 2006.

She earned one of television’s biggest honors in 2018 when she won a Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television.

Grant, currently host of Channel 10’s reboot of the game show Deal or No Deal, gained new fans after winning Dancing with the Stars in 2007.

It comes after Grant recently broke down in tears as he bravely spoke about his struggles with his mental health in a candid interview last year.

He spoke about how he contemplated suicide after breaking his back and becoming addicted to painkillers in one of the darkest periods of his life.

Speaking to Hit Network’s Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little, the former Sunrise meteorologist was overcome with emotion as he recalled his struggles.

But the Deal or No Deal host has made a shocking confession about his first days on the job as a young reporter.

But the Deal or No Deal host has made a shocking confession about his first days on the job as a young reporter.

Telling the Courier Mail on Friday that he realized he was a journalist

Telling the Courier Mail on Friday that he realized he was a “terrible” journalist, Grant later landed a prized job as a meteorologist on Seven’s Sunrise in 2004 (pictured).

Grant, who shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi, revealed his family was his only “purpose” during the difficult time.

His voice shaking with emotion, the Deal Or No Deal host bravely shared: ‘If I didn’t have a… uh… child at the time, I really didn’t see much point in moving forward.

‘I didn’t have much fight left or desire to move forward… so it was for her. I didn’t want (my daughter) to suffer the pain of not having a father around.’

Grant confessed that he struggled with “low self-esteem” and didn’t like himself at the time, but he loved his daughter enough to get through that dark period.

‘Yes… I could inflict pain on myself. I didn’t look very favorably on myself. I wasn’t very nice. I had very low self-esteem. He had no self-love. But I loved her enough to not want to hurt her,” he shared.

“If you just put one foot in front of the other and go little by little, just one step at a time, you can get there.”

“Having trouble with painkillers after a broken back was the darkest period of my life,” he said during the Carrie and Tommy Show.

“I was winning races in Supercars, presenting things like Australia’s Got Talent, Sunrise, and then bang, they take the handbrake off and you have to sit still for four months.”

‘You enter your darkest worst nightmares everywhere every time you close your eyes. So just say your worst fear is your wife leaving you or a home invasion, the moment you close your eyes you’ll go straight to those worst scenarios, every night.

‘And when you wake up, you can’t tell the difference between reality and your dreams. You think everything has happened.

Grant often speaks publicly about his mental health, telling how he became addicted to painkillers after breaking his back in a freak monster truck accident in 2008.

The accident left Grant with a vertebra broken into 11 pieces and doctors feared he would never walk again.

In 2014, Grant attended a wellness center in Thailand that specializes in treating post-traumatic stress disorder and burnout.

“Going to Thailand was a challenge, but it was the smartest thing (Chezzi and I) ever did,” he previously shared.

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Grant shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi (pictured).

Grant shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi (pictured).

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