Johanna Griggs has hosted Australia’s number one lifestyle show, Better Homes and Gardens, for the past 17 years. Better Homes and Gardens entered the record books in 2014, as Johanna accepted the 12th Silver Logie award (Australia’s Most Popular Lifestyle Program) on behalf of the show.

Johanna joined Channel Seven after announcing her retirement from swimming in 1993. She is one of the network’s most iconic faces being involved in an array of programs over the years, from Seven’s Summer of Tennis, Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, Seven Weekend News, Sydney Weekender, Auction Squad, House Calls To The Rescue, Australia’s Amazing Homes, the Olympics (The Tokyo Olympics Games will be her 7th Olympics she has hosted for 7), Paralympics, and 7 years as host of House Rules before asking to step down from the show.

Before her successful television career, Johanna represented Australia in swimming, winning bronze at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990, and silver at the 1991 World Championships.

Johanna splits her time between the Lower Hunter Valley – where she grows the majority of her families produce, & Sydney’s northern beaches, where her builder husband Todd Huggins runs a successful construction company. Through it they have built and renovated dozens of homes.

In 2009, Johanna received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters – Honoris Causa – from Macquarie University in NSW for services to swimming, media and charity fundraising.

In 2020, Johanna was awarded an AM in the Australia Day honours for her Significant Services Community Health, to Television and to Sport. She has been a Board Member for Beyond Blue since 2014 and works closely with the Humpty Dumpty Foundation and the McGrath Foundation.

She is a proud mother of two young men Jesse and Joe, and a besotted grandmother to Joe’s son Jax.