Melissa Doyle is just back from a morning walk with the family dog, ready to sit down and talk about her "feisty, bootlegging great-grandmother from New Zealand". Well, her and other things. Login or signup to continue reading The Kiwi matriarch was just one interesting relative the respected television journalist discovered when she agreed to open the archives on her family history and be part of the latest SBS-TV series, Who Do You Think You Are? And it's kind of nice that the very professional, very discreet and very proper Doyle has at least one rogue branch on the family tree in the form of her law-breaking great-granny.
But, as it turns out, that ancestor may have been more meaningful than all the rest. "I was very intrigued," Doyle said, of the invitation to join the show. "I think I've spent my whole career telling everyone else's stories and there was an opportunity to find out a little bit more of my own.
So, that was fascinating to me. "To be able to have the expertise of researchers and producers and take a deep dive into my family's history and see documents and photographs that I wouldn't be able to get on own. "I had a moment of nerves.
I'm not always comfortable when it's turned on me and it's about me. I did have a little moment of hesitation, 'How do I feel about this?'. But it was really, really interesting and I learnt so much that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
" Doyle, who started her media career at WIN-TV in Canberra and even married "a good Canberra .
