Ricki-Lee Coulter Net Worth

What Is Ricki-Lee Coulter's Net Worth?

Ricki-Lee Coulter is an Australian singer, songwriter, and television and radio presenter who has a net worth of $10 million. Ricki-Lee Coulter started performing at 15 years old, and she auditioned for the second season of "Australian Idol" in 2004. She made it to the finals round and finished in seventh place. Coulter signed with Shock Records, and her self-titled debut studio album was released in 2005. The album reached #30 in Australia and had top 10 Australian singles with "Hell No!" and "Sunshine." Her second studio album, "Brand New Day," was released in 2007 and charted in Australia and Japan. The album contained top 10 Australian hits "Can't Touch It," "Love Is All Around," and "Can't Sing a Different Song." Her third album, "Fear & Freedom," was released in 2012 and reached #7 in Australia and #45 in Japan. Coulter's 2012 single "Do It Like That" reached #13 in Australia and #7 in Japan. Ricki-Lee has since released the albums "Dance in the Rain" (2014) and "On My Own" (2024), which reached #14 and #3, respectively, in Australia.

Coulter was briefly a member of the girl pop group Young Divas, and the group's 2006 self-titled album was certified 2× Platinum in Australia, where it peaked at #4 on the charts. She was a reporter and presenter for "Australian Idol" seasons six and seven and received a 2009 nomination at the Logie Awards for Most Popular New Female Talent. Rickie-Lee hosted the ninth and tenth seasons of "Australia's Got Talent," and in 2022, it was announced that she would be co-hosting the reboot of "Australian Idol" with Scott Tweedie. Coulter has been the face of the Australian clothing line Hold Me Tight and the cosmetics brand CoverGirl.

Early Life

Ricki-Lee Coulter was born Ricki-Lee Dawn Coulter on November 10, 1985, in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the daughter of model Loretta Sheerin, who was born in Tonga, and her parents split up before her birth. Loretta later married a man named John, and Rickie-Lee has two half-sisters, Emily and Jodie, from that marriage. When she was three months old, Coulter moved to Gold Coast, Queensland, with her mother. During her youth, her maternal grandfather, Rocky, was a father figure in Ricki-Lee's life. Loretta let Ricki-Lee visit her biological father in New Zealand as a child, and Coulter told "The Age" in 2012, "He wasn't a part of my life. I'd go over there and stay with him and his family, [but] it was just weird to me. Then when I got to an age where I could speak up to Mum, about six or seven, I said, 'I don't want to go; I don't like it.'" Ricki-Lee attended Southport State School, and in a 2008 interview with the "Herald Sun," she said of her classmates, "Their mums and dads were married. They had brothers and sisters. They had afternoon tea. They had a cooked dinner. I never had that. I'd get home from school and there was nothing in the cupboard. I would eat mouldy bread and drink water because that would fill me up." When she was in primary school, she played netball and touch football, and she participated in swimming.

Ricki-Lee attended Southport State High School, and when she was 15 years old, she injured her knee and had to undergo reconstructive surgery; she was told that she would no longer be able to play netball. A few months later, her mother heard her singing in her bedroom and realized that Coulter was a talented vocalist. Ricki-Lee began performing with live bands in the Brisbane and Gold Coast areas, and she learned to play numerous instruments, such as the flute, tenor saxophone, and trumpet, which she played with the school band. After she graduated from high school in 2002, Coulter started writing songs with her friend Xy Latu and began seriously focusing on a music career.

Career

In 2003, Rickie-Lee auditioned for the new show "Australian Idol," but she didn't advance past the audition rounds. In 2004, she auditioned for "Popstars Live" and made it to the top 60, then she tried out for "Australian Idol" again. This time, she made it to the top 12, and after performing songs such as Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing" and the Tina Turner version of "Proud Mary," she finished in seventh place. Coulter returned to the show as a co-host in 2008. After being voted off of "Australian Idol," she signed with Shock Records, Australia's biggest independent label, and released the single "Hell No!" in June 2005. The single reached #5 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and was certified Gold. Her second single, "Sunshine," also went Gold, and it reached #8 in Australia. She released her debut album, "Ricki-Lee," in October 2005, and it reached #30 on the ARIA Albums Chart. "Breathe," the third single from the album, peaked at #14 on the ARIA Singles Chart. In 2006, Coulter also joined the girl group Young Divas alongside fellow "Australian Idol" alums Emily Williams, Paulini, and Kate DeAraugo. Rickie-Lee recorded one album with the group, 2006's "Young Divas," which reached #4 on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified 2× Platinum. The single "This Time I Know It's for Real" reached #2 on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified Platinum, and "Happenin' All Over Again" peaked at #9 and went Gold. In June 2007, Rickie-Lee announced that she was leaving Young Divas to focus on her solo career.

Coulter's second solo album, "Brand New Day," was released in August 2007, and it reached #37 on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified Gold. The album featured three top 10 singles: "Can't Touch It" (which went Platinum), "Love Is All Around," and "Can't Sing a Different Song." Next, she released 2011's "Fear & Freedom," which reached #1 on the ARIA Dance Albums Chart, #7 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and #45 on the Japan Albums Chart. The singles "Raining Diamonds" and "Do It Like That" went Platinum in Australia. Rickie-Lee's fourth solo album, "Dance in the Rain," was released in 2014 and reached #14 on the ARIA Albums Chart. She followed it with "On My Own" a decade later, and it reached #3 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Coulter has also been a radio presenter for the B105 FM breakfast team in Brisbane, the Fox FM summer breakfast show in Melbourne, and the Nova 96.9 breakfast show in Sydney, and in 2023, it was announced that she would be replacing Kate Ritchie on Nova's "Kate, Tim & Joel" (now called "Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel"). On television, she has competed on the reality series  "Celebrity Circus" and the celebrity singing competition "It Takes Two," and she finished in third place on "Dancing with the Stars Australia" in 2014. She was a mentor on "The Voice Australia" in 2012, and she hosted "Australia's Got Talent" in 2019 and 2022. In 2017, Coulter hosted the 7Two series "Life Changing Adventures."

Personal Life

On September 7, 2007, Rickie-Lee married Jamie Babbington, whom she met when she was 15 and he was 23. She took Jamie's last name, and they spent five weeks in the Maldives for their honeymoon. In October 2008, Coulter's publicist announced that the couple had separated because of "distance and time apart." Rickie-Lee began a relationship with Richard Harrison, her manager, in September 2009, and in January 2013, they announced their engagement. They married on August 5, 2015, in Paris, and Coulter graced the cover of "New Idea" in her wedding gown later that month.

Rickie-Lee supports the LGBTQ+ community, and she has performed at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. In 2007, 2008, and 2015, she served as an ambassador for the McDonald's fundraising event McHappy Day, which raised money for the Ronald McDonald House Charities. In 2008, she was named the face of the charity fundraising event Jeans for Genes Day in Australia, which was organized by the Children's Medical Research Institute and raised $100,000 for the campaign. In 2011, Coulter became a spokeswoman for the Australian red ribbon appeal, which raised money to help individuals with HIV and AIDS.

Awards and Nominations

At the 2006 Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards, Ricki-Lee was named Fave Australian Artist, and Young Divas won the award for Fave Song for "This Time I Know It's for Real" and earned a Fave Group nomination. That year Coulter received an Urban Music Award (Australia and New Zealand) nomination for Best R&B Album for "Ricki-Lee." In 2007, she won a Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Award for Fave Female Singer and earned an AIR Award nomination for Best Performing Independent Single/EP for "Can't Touch It." At the 2008 AIR Awards, Coulter received nominations for Best Independent Artist and Best Independent Single/EP for "Can't Sing a Different Song." She also won a Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Award for Fave Singer that year, then she earned a Logie Award nomination for Most Popular New Female Talent in 2009. The following year, Rickie-Lee was nominated for a MusicOz Award for Best Video for "Don't Miss You," an Australian Commercial Radio Award for Best Newcomer on Air (Metropolitan), and a "Cosmopolitan" Fun, Fearless, Female Women of the Year Award for Radio Host. In 2012, Coulter won a "Cosmopolitan" Fun, Fearless, Female Women of the Year Award for Singer of the Year and earned an ARIA Music Award nomination for Song of the Year for "Do It Like That."

Real Estate

In 2014, Rickie-Lee and Richard paid $1.1 million for a 625-square-meter home in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney. In August 2023, they put the four-bedroom home on the market for $2.5 million. They later dropped the asking price to $2.45 million, and the following month, they postponed the sale of the home.