Deal or No Deal star Grant Denyer makes shock revelation about his career as he prepares to celebrate 25 years in television

He is a Gold Logie winner and long-time fan favorite.

And now Grant Denyer is about to celebrate 25 years of television.

But the Deal or No Deal presenter has made a shocking admission about his early days as a young reporter.

“I realized pretty quickly that I was a terrible journalist,” he said in a new interview with the Courier mail on Friday.

He continued, “I didn’t know much about the world, and I remember experiencing a fatal car accident as one of my first stories.

‘It was all quite graphic and quite serious, you know, seeing your very first deceased body, and I thought, “Hmm, I’m not sure I’m cut out for this.”‘

He is a Gold Logie winner and long-time fan favorite. And now Grant Denyer (photo) is celebrating his 25th anniversary in television

Elsewhere in the chat, Grant, who started his career at Prime TV in the NSW town of Wagga Wagga, said he felt “fake” and a “pretender” from his first day on the job.

Grant added that he was “terrified,” explaining, “YYou’re in a room full of real journalists who went through college and I barely made it through high school.”

Grant, who hails from Gosford on the NSW central coast, eventually scored a high-profile gig as a weatherman in Seven’s Sunrise in 2006.

He scored one of TV’s highest accolades in 2018 when he won a Gold Logie Award for the most popular personality on Australian television.

Grant currently hosts Channel 10’s reboot of the game show Deal or No Deal, winning new fans after walking away the winner of Dancing with the Stars in 2007.

It comes after Grant recently broke down in tears as he courageously discussed his struggles with his mental health in a candid interview last year.

He told how he contemplated suicide after breaking his back and becoming addicted to painkillers during one of the darkest times of his life.

Speaking to Hit Network’s Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little, the former Sunrise weatherman was overcome with emotion as he recalled his struggles.

But the Deal or No Deal presenter has made a shocking admission about his early days as a young reporter

But the Deal or No Deal presenter has made a shocking admission about his early days as a young reporter

Telling the Courier Mail on Friday that he realized he was a 'terrible' journalist, Grant later landed a prized gig as a weatherman on Seven's Sunrise in 2004 (pictured)

Telling the Courier Mail on Friday that he realized he was a ‘terrible’ journalist, Grant later landed a prized gig as a weatherman on Seven’s Sunrise in 2004 (pictured)

Grant – who shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi – revealed that his family was his only ‘goal’ during the very difficult time.

His voice shaking with emotion, the Deal Or No Deal presenter bravely shared: ‘If I didn’t have… um… a child at the time, I didn’t really feel like continuing.

“I didn’t have much fight left or the will to continue… so it was for her. I didn’t want to [my daughter] to suffer the pain of not having a father.”

Grant confessed that he struggled with “low self-esteem” and that he didn’t like himself at the time, but loved his daughter enough to get through the very dark period.

“Yes…I could hurt myself. I didn’t see myself that positively. I wasn’t very nice. I had very low self-esteem. I had no self-love. But I loved her enough not to want to hurt her,” he said.

“If you just put one foot in front of the other and go little by little, step by step, you’ll get there.”

“Having problems with painkillers after a broken back was the darkest time of my life,” he said on the Carrie and Tommy Show.

‘I won races in Supercars, I presented things like Australia’s Got Talent, Sunrise, and then: the handbrake is pulled on your life and you have to lie still for four months.

‘Every time you close your eyes, you experience your darkest nightmares everywhere. So say your biggest fear is that your wife will leave you or your house will be robbed. From the moment you close your eyes, you’re transported straight into the worst-case scenarios, every night.

‘And when you wake up, you can’t tell the difference between reality and your dreams. You believe they all happened.”

Grant often discusses his mental health publicly, sharing how he became addicted to pain medication after breaking his back in a freak monster truck accident in 2008.

The crash left Grant with a vertebra broken into 11 pieces, and doctors feared he might never walk again.

In 2014, Grant visited a wellness center in Thailand that specializes in treating PTSD and exhaustion.

‘Going to Thailand was a challenge, but it was the smartest thing [me and Chezzi] ever did,” he previously shared.

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Grant shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi (pictured)

Grant shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi (pictured)