Beau Walker

Beau Walker, born on 13 April 1985, is a former junior Australian surfer who represented Australia in national and international championships, and who later became known as a television presenter. He was born in Sydney and moved to Byron Bay at the age of twelve, where he began surfing local beaches and entering competitions before he turned fourteen, balancing school with the Pro Juniors circuit and winning numerous titles. In 2005 he met board maker Cameron Bond, who designed a surfboard for him called the Nitro model. After the Nine Network spotted him in a televised surfing competition he took the Nitro role on the children's show The Shak, then guest roles on Mortified and Pyramid, and in 2011 fronted Kitchen Whiz in the former time slot of The Shak at Home.