{{Short description|New Zealand television presenter (1970–2018)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2014}}{{Infobox person | name = Greg Boyed | image = Greg Boyed 2016.jpg | caption = Boyed in 2016 | birth_name = Gregory Stephen Boyed<ref name="Death notice">{{cite news | url=http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=gregory-stephen-boyed&pid=190042465 | title=Gregory Stephen Boyed death notice | date=25 August 2018 | work=[[New Zealand Herald]] | accessdate=26 August 2018}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1970|03|27|df=yes}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|8|20|1970|3|27|df=yes}} | death_place = Switzerland | occupation = Television presenter | spouse = {{marriage|[[Caroline Chevin]]|2014}} | children = 2 (1 with Chevin) }} '''Gregory Stephen Boyed''' (27 March 1970<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=GregBoyed |author=Boyed, Greg |number=978195657071591425 |date=26 March 2018 |title=@lisettereymer and @LauraKneer my lovely #tonight colleagues got me a birthday cake a day early! #happybirthdaytome}}</ref> – 20 August 2018) was a [[New Zealand]] journalist and television presenter. He was best known as the presenter of [[TVNZ 1]]'s ''[[1News#1News Tonight|1News Tonight]]''; he also hosted ''[[Breakfast (New Zealand TV programme)|Breakfast]]'', ''1 News At 6pm'', ''[[Q+A]]'', and ''[[Seven Sharp]]''.
==Career==
===Radio=== In 1991, Boyed worked as the chief reporter and newsreader at a radio station in Tauranga. He worked for [[Independent Radio News (New Zealand)|Independent Radio News]] (IRN) for four years – as the news and sport reporter and reader in Wellington for the first year, and as sports sub and reader in Auckland for the remaining three. Towards the end of his career, he sometimes worked as a stand-in presenter at [[Newstalk ZB]].
===Television=== Boyed's first television work was as a general reporter for ATV regional television, where he then moved into the niche of business reporter for ''The NBR Report''.
Upon moving to [[TVNZ]], Boyed worked as a fill-in business reporter and general reporter. In the late 1990s, he moved to [[Three (TV channel)|TV3]], where he worked as the Auckland reporter for the investigative programme ''[[Target (New Zealand TV series)|Target]]''. Boyed returned to TVNZ in 2002, initially as a producer on youth news programme ''Flipside'', later becoming executive producer of discussion programme ''The Last Word'', and for a period, the late night news bulletin ''Tonight''.<ref>{{cite news |title=TVNZ's bid to reclaim late-night news spot |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3544207 |accessdate=5 October 2018 |work=[[New Zealand Herald]] |date=18 January 2004}}</ref> In 2005, he became a reporter for the investigative consumer affairs programme ''[[Fair Go]]''.<ref name="stf">{{cite news |title=Greg Boyed: A life on screen |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/106475034/greg-boyed-a-life-on-screen |accessdate=30 August 2018 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=22 August 2018}}</ref>
From 2007 to 2018, Boyed was the main presenter of the late evening ''1 News Tonight'' bulletin, as well as being a regular stand-in on ''1 News at Six''; he briefly left this job in 2013, moving to newly-launched current affairs programme ''[[Seven Sharp]]'', which he presented alongside [[Alison Mau]] and [[Jesse Mulligan]]. He left the programme seven months after its launch, returning to ''1 News Tonight''. He also presented [[TVNZ 7]]'s ''News at 8'' on weekdays from 2008 until the channel's closure in 2012. After the retirement of [[Paul Holmes (broadcaster)|Paul Holmes]] in 2012, Boyed temporarily became the presenter of current affairs interview show ''[[Q+A]]''; after a revamp of the programme in 2015, he took this job permanently. He was also an occasional stand-in presenter on current affairs show ''[[Close Up (TV programme)|Close Up]]''.
==Personal life== Boyed was the son of Colin and Jean Boyed.<ref name="Death notice"/> He met Swiss singer-songwriter [[Caroline Chevin]] in 2014 while she was visiting New Zealand, and they married in Switzerland later that year.<ref name="nzh-td">{{cite news |title=The Diary: Swiss entertainer steals TV presenter's heart |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11293972 |accessdate=22 August 2018 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=16 July 2014 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20180822042209/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11293972 |archivedate=22 August 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Their son Kian Iraia Cassidy was born in 2015.<ref name="ntl">{{cite news |last1=Land |first1=Emma |title=TVNZ presenter Greg Boyed has died suddenly in Switzerland |url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/tv/tvnz-presenter-greg-boyed-has-died-38805 |accessdate=22 August 2018 |work=Now to Love |date=22 August 2018 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20180822042946/https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/tv/tvnz-presenter-greg-boyed-has-died-38805 |archivedate=22 August 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> He also had a daughter, Sarah, born around 1997, from his first marriage.<ref name="nzh">{{cite news |title=TVNZ news presenter Greg Boyed, who was battling depression, dies in Switzerland |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12111311 |accessdate=22 August 2018 |work=[[New Zealand Herald]] |date=22 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Greg Boyed and the challenges he faced: 'Limelight comes with the job' |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12121204|accessdate=2 October 2018 |work=[[New Zealand Herald]] |date=22 September 2018}}</ref>
Boyed was previously engaged to television presenter Amanda Gillies.<ref name="ntl" />
He had an interest in drums and marathon running.<ref name="nzb">{{cite news |title=TVNZ news presenter Greg Boyed dies in Europe |url=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/tvnz-news-presenter-greg-boyed-dies-in-europe/ |accessdate=22 August 2018 |work=NewstalkZB |date=22 August 2018}}</ref>
His family reported that he suffered from depression.<ref name="nzh" />
==Death== Boyed died by suicide on 20 August 2018, while on a family holiday in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/106466553/tvnz-news-anchor-greg-boyed-has-died|title=TVNZ news anchor Greg Boyed has died|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |language=en|access-date=2018-08-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/parenting/family/renee-wright-reflects-on-2018-plans-for-2019-40185|title=Renee Wright reflects on 2018 and reveals what's in store for 2019|work=[[New Zealand Woman's Weekly]]|language=en|access-date=8 January 2019}}</ref>
==See also== * [[List of New Zealand television personalities]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/greg-boyed-q10186 TVNZ profile] * [https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/greg-boyed NZOnscreen profile]
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