Early Life and Education
Bouchet was born to French migrants in Brisbane, Australia. Bouchet’s mother Annick had previously hosted music and talk radio shows in Perth, Western Australia. On completion of seventh grade, Bouchet left Nudgee Junior College for Marist College Ashgrove. It was during high school that, at the age of 15, Bouchet first started in radio, hosting a 3-hour talk show on Switch 1197 called The Speak Up Show.
In September 2004 Bouchet appeared on the SBS television program Insight where he had a heated argument with Graham Perrett, the Australian Labor Party's candidate for the federal seat of Moreton, over the issue of private school funding. Perrett was employed as a teacher at Marist College Ashgrove, a private school, at the same time that Bouchet was a student. Later in the show he was howled down by the panel of guests for stating that: “...(Iraq) at the moment, it's in the reconstruction phase, it's all positive from here”.
In February 2004 Bouchet anchored Switch 1197’s broadcast of the 2004 Queensland State Election from the official tally room at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
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