Australian reporter Liz Hayes is known to have been married for the fourth time but fans want to know if she has children or not. Details.
Veteran journalist Liz Hayes made the news following her interview with Stellar magazine earlier in November 2023, claiming that late Prime Minister Bob Hawke tried to woo her on multiple occasions.
Per her, the politician phoned Hayes, who was single at the time, to propose a weekend away on the Gold Coast.
The beloved 60 Minutes star wondered what ‘pheromones’ she was putting that made Hawke ask her out twice, but conceded that the former Prime Minister was ‘absolutely brilliant’ and never mistreated her.
The journalist said she didn’t take the Prime Minister up on his offer.
Following that, fans were in an inquisition to know more about whether she had kids. Here’s everything you need to know.
Does Liz Hayes have any children?
Liz Hayes is not known to be a mother, hence, she has no kids.
There has been no information about her having welcomed a son or a daughter despite marrying and being in several relationships.
In a 2014 interview, Hayes said that speculation that she placed her career before motherhood was ‘unkind’.
‘There is a lot of presumption about people who don’t have children and invariably the presumption is wrong,” Hayes told The Sydney Morning Herald.
‘Unkind things are said to some women about not having children. Why do we hammer other women, our sisters, about those kinds of areas, which are deeply personal and horribly difficult for some?’
How many times has Liz Hayes been married?
Liz Hayes, who has no child even at 67, has been married for the fourth time.
Hayes met and married her first husband, builder Brian Hayes, in her hometown of Taree, but the two later split.
The journalist was subsequently married to Australian advertising entrepreneur John Singleton between 1991 and 1992.
Liz secretly married Sydney doctor Stephen Coogan in 1994 and split in 1997.
She has married Ben Crane, a former 60 Minutes soundman, since the early 2000s.
Veteran journalist Liz Hayes reveals her real name – and why she ‘grieves’ the loss of her former identity: ‘It’s peculiar’
Liz Hayes has lifted the lid on her lesser-known identity as the daughter of a dairy farmer and a housewife from region New South Wales.
Speaking to Stellar magazine over the weekend, the 67-year-old said she was born Elizabeth Ryan and grew up being known as Beth.
‘I grieve Beth Ryan, because I quite like Beth Ryan. Liz Hayes is who I’ve become. I was born Elizabeth Ryan,’ the 60 Minutes veteran said.
Liz took the name of her first husband Bryan Hayes and has kept it as her professional name ever since.
‘When I hear someone say, ‘Hi, Beth’ I know they’re in my soul. When I realised, oh, I’m now Liz Hayes… that’s a very odd moment. It’s peculiar,’ she admitted.
Liz reflected on what it was like to refer to herself as Beth Ryan while writing her upcoming autobiography I’m Liz Hayes: A Memoir.
‘Writing this book and writing ‘Beth Ryan’, I hear my dad, my brothers. I’m not Liz Hayes. To this day, I’m Beth. It was only when reading the book that I went back and realised how big a deal it was to let go of that,’ she said.