21/10/2025
✨CAST ANNOUNCEMENT✨
Gorgi Coghlan is the Witch
Gorgi Coghlan is a rare talent who continually evolves and surprises as she skilfully navigates various roles within the entertainment industry. While she is well-known and respected by Australian audiences for her media broadcasting experience, Gorgi has recently returned to her first love: performing, particularly in singing and acting.
In 2025, Gorgi completed an intensive drama course at the award-winning Howard Fine Acting Studio in Melbourne, which she thoroughly enjoyed. The previous year, she appeared in a cameo role alongside Peter Helliar, in Netflix’s global hit, Apple Cider Vinegar, and is currently performing and touring her show Songbirds, which she has written, produced, and directed alongside her best friend of 38 years, Anna-Lee Robertson.
Gorgi’s diverse media experience spans news, current affairs, journalism, travel, science, and education, combined with her credentials in musical theatre and professional singing, making her one of the most well-rounded television personalities in the industry—with the most infectious laugh in showbiz!
For eleven years, Gorgi co-hosted Network Ten’s Logie Award-winning news and current affairs program The Project. Prior to that, she co-hosted the critically acclaimed and much loved morning show The Circle. Her television career began as the Melbourne reporter and travel presenter for The Today Show on the Nine Network, and she also reported for the National Early Edition News and was a regular on the Victorian 6 PM Nine News Bulletin. Additionally, Gorgi hosted Holidays for Sale and the Victorian travel show Postcards.
An accomplished and classically trained singer, Gorgi made a splash on The Masked Singer (Network Ten), where she captivated the nation, reaching the Grand Final as Monster and placing third in the show’s first season. Following that success, she held two sold-out solo concerts at Chapel off Chapel in Melbourne and returned to the prestigious Carols by Candlelight at the Myer Music Bowl in 2021.
In April 2023, Gorgi debuted her one-woman show, The Motherload, at Chapel off Chapel. Over the years, she has performed at numerous prestigious events and featured on the Spirit of Christmas albums, performed at Channel Nine’s Carols by Candlelight four times, and sung at Network Ten’s 2020 New Year’s Eve concert at Hamer Hall with the Aussie Pops Orchestra.
In musical theatre, Gorgi starred in We Will Rock You, where she was handpicked by Queen band members Brian May and Roger Taylor for the role of “OZ” at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne. She later performed alongside David Campbell in Carousel at the Melbourne Arts Centre.
Gorgi holds a Bachelor of Science with majors in pharmacology and zoology, as well as a Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) specializing in biology and science, both from Monash University. Growing up on a sheep farm in Warrnambool, Victoria, she is a former state-level equestrian competitor and currently enjoys dressage with her warmblood mare.
In 2023, Gorgi and her husband Simon sold their award-winning boutique hotel, The Provincial Ballarat, alongside their French bistro, Lola, both landmark establishments in the Victorian town. Under their ownership, The Provincial Ballarat won the ‘Boutique Style Accommodation of the Year’ at the Tourism Accommodation Awards (TAA) for Victoria. The same year, Gorgi opened their family property, Bermingham Farm, to the public, hosting wellbeing workshops and unique leadership events.
Recently, in 2025, Gorgi and Simon launched their latest project, The Buninyong Hotel—a charming 19th-century hotel nestled in the historic village of Buninyong, just outside Ballarat. Gorgi has seamlessly balanced life as a mother to her daughter Molly-Rose while commuting from their family farm and enjoying her various roles in the media.
