Jesse Robert Turi Mulligan is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster and writer.

Thereafter he worked as a commercial radio host in Wellington and Auckland, as a comedian, and in public relations and corporate communications.

He left the show on 17 April 2014, after his co-hosts Ali Mau and Greg Boyed left at the end of 2013 and were replaced by Toni Street and Mike Hosking, as part of refreshing the show.

[5] He succeeded Simon Mercep as the host of Afternoons on RNZ National in July 2015.

[1][6] A weekly feature of Afternoons during Mulligan's tenure has been Critter of the Week with Forest & Bird chief executive and former Department of Conservation threatened species ambassador Nicola Toki.