Laura Jackson (presenter)

Last updated

Laura Jackson
Born
Laura Emma Jackson

(1986-04-30) 30 April 1986 (age 38) [1]
Occupation(s) Television presenter, food columnist
Spouse
Jonathan Gorrigan
(m. 2017)
Children3

Laura Emma Jackson (born 30 April 1986) is an English television presenter and columnist. [3] She presented the quiz shows Ready or Not on BBC One and Take Me Out: The Gossip on ITV2. [4]

Contents

Biography

Jackson was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and raised in Kirkburton. She has four siblings. [5] She was educated at Shelley College. [6] [7]

Jackson was spotted while working as a receptionist at Shoreditch House, a members club and hotel in London. She began her career presenting the T4 music show Freshly Squeezed alongside Nick Grimshaw, and went on to present on Take Me Out: The Gossip on ITV2, This Morning on ITV, The Clothes Show on BBC One and Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4. In 2018, she hosted Ready or Not on BBC One. [3]

She runs an East London supper club, Jackson&Levine, with Alice Levine. Jackson and Levine are food columnists for Elle , Marie Claire and Company magazine, [8] and have published a cookbook. [9] They also have a homeware line with Habitat. [3]

Jackson married photographer Jonathan Gorrigan in 2017. [10] They had their first child, a daughter named Sidney Frances, in May 2019. [11]

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

Jenny Powell is an English television and radio presenter. After appearing on No Limits, she went on to present series such as Wheel of Fortune, UP2U, Gimme 5, Live Talk, Wordplay and Daybreak.

Joseph Adam Swash is an English actor and television presenter, best known for his role of Mickey Miller in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders and various presenting roles with ITV2. He won the eighth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2008 and the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice in 2020.

Matthew Edmondson is a British television and Sony Award-nominated radio presenter, best known for his work with BBC Radio 1 and ITV2.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amy Macdonald</span> Scottish singer-songwriter

Amy Elizabeth Macdonald is a Scottish singer-songwriter. In 2007, she released her debut studio album, This Is the Life, which respectively produced the singles "Mr. Rock & Roll" and "This Is the Life"; the latter charting at number one in six countries, while reaching the top 10 in another 11 countries. The album reached number one in four European countries – the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland – and sold three million copies worldwide. Moderate success in the American music market followed in 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emma Willis</span> English television presenter and former model

Emma Louise Willis is an English broadcaster. She is known for her television and radio work with Channel 5, BBC, ITV, and Heart FM. Willis has presented Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother (2013–2018), as well as the spin-off series Big Brother's Bit on the Side (2011–2015). She has presented The Voice UK (2014–present), and the children's spin-off The Voice Kids UK (2017–2023). In 2019 and 2021, Willis presented the second and third series of The Circle. She will be co-hosting Love Is Blind: UK with her husband Matt Willis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katy Brand</span> English actress, comedian and writer

Katherine Frances Brand, known as Katy Brand, is an English actress, comedian, and writer, known for her ITV2 series Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and for Comedy Lab Slap on Channel 4.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laura Whitmore</span> Irish presenter and actress

Laura Whitmore is an Irish media personality and model based in London. She was a video jockey for MTV in 2008, and has since presented television shows, such as This Morning (2014), Survival of the Fittest (2018) and Love Island (2020–2022). In 2020, Whitmore became a team captain on the comedy panel show Celebrity Juice. In 2023, Whitmore hosted her first ITV1 chat show Laura Whitmore's Breakfast Show and released her own ITVX documentary series Laura Whitmore Investigates.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fearne Cotton</span> English television and radio presenter

Fearne Wood is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s as a children’s television presenter for GMTV, CITV and CBBC. She went on to present various television shows, including Top of the Pops (2004–2020), Love Island (2006), The Xtra Factor (2007), and Interior Design Masters (2019), as well as the Children in Need (2005–2017) and Red Nose Day telethons. From 2008 to 2018, Cotton was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iain Stirling</span> Scottish comedian (b. 1988)

Iain Andrew Stirling is a Scottish comedian, writer, television presenter, narrator and Twitch streamer from Edinburgh, Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stacey Solomon</span> English singer and television personality

Stacey Chanelle Clare Solomon-Swash is an English television personality, presenter and singer. She was a contestant on the sixth series of the ITV singing competition show The X Factor in 2009, which she finished in third place. The following year, Solomon appeared on the tenth series of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! which she won.

Michelle de Swarte is an English actress, comedian, presenter, and former model. She starred in the Netflix series The Duchess.

<i>Take Me Out</i> (British game show) British television show

Take Me Out was a dating game show that was presented by comedian Paddy McGuinness. Based on the Australian show Taken Out, it first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and simulcast on TV3 in the Republic of Ireland on 2 January 2010. An unscreened pilot episode was made for Channel 4 in 2009, but it was ITV who picked it up for a series. The show was produced by Thames. On 10 February 2020, ITV announced that the show was axed after eleven series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emily Atack</span> English actress and comedian

Emily Jane Atack is an English actress, comedian, and television personality. She is best known for playing Charlotte Hinchcliffe on the E4 comedy series The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), and for her roles in Keith Lemon shows, such as Lemon La Vida Loca, The Keith Lemon Sketch Show, and The Keith & Paddy Picture Show.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matt Willis</span> English singer (born 1983)

Mathew James Willis, previously known as Matty Jay, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, television personality and actor. He is known as co-founder, bassist and co-vocalist of the pop-punk band Busted. Willis released his debut solo album Don't Let It Go to Waste on 20 November 2006. It contains three top-20 singles.

Alice Esme Levine is an English radio and television presenter and narrator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rylan Clark</span> English media personality

Ross Richard "Rylan" Clark is an English television and radio presenter. After beginning his career as a model, he appeared on Signed by Katie Price before coming to prominence as a contestant on the ninth series of the television talent show The X Factor in 2012, which he finished in fifth place. The following year, he appeared on the eleventh series of the reality show Celebrity Big Brother, which he won. Clark went on to present various television shows, including Big Brother's Bit on the Side (2013–2018),This Morning, The Xtra Factor (2016), Up Late with Rylan (2016), Supermarket Sweep (2019–2020), Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two (2019–2022), Ready Steady Cook (2020–2021), and You Are What You Wear (2020). Since 2018, he has served as a semi-final co-commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest, and has presented various shows on BBC Radio 2.

Ferne Alice McCann is an English model, television personality and presenter. She was a cast member of the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex, joining in the ninth series and leaving in the eighteenth. In 2015, she participated in the fifteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and finished in third place.

<i>Im a Celebrity: Extra Camp</i> British television series

I'm a Celebrity: The Daily Drop (known as I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Now!. I'm a Celebrity: ExtraCamp is the companion series to I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, that was broadcast on ITV2 from August 2002 to December 2020. It features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with contestants after they have been voted off by the public.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brit Awards 2017</span> Award ceremony

Brit Awards 2017 was held on 22 February 2017 and was the 37th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The awards ceremony were held at The O2 Arena in London. Emma Willis hosted The Brits Are Coming, the launch show to reveal this year's nominees which was broadcast live for the first time, on 14 January 2017. Robbie Williams was given the Brits Icon Award the previous November during a special concert held in his honour at Troxy in London. Architect Dame Zaha Hadid designed the Brit Award statuette that was to be given to the winners.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maya Jama</span> British television and radio presenter

Maya Indea Jama is a British television presenter and radio DJ. She co-presented BBC One's Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer alongside Peter Crouch and Alex Horne and was the presenter of the BBC Three competition Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star for the third and fourth series and ITV2’s dating series Love Island.

References

  1. "Laura Emma JACKSON - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007
  3. 1 2 3 Conlon, Scarlett (6 April 2018). "Can Laura Jackson breathe fresh life into Saturday night TV?". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  4. Hammond, Natalie (6 February 2019). "Laura Jackson, the style icon you don't know". The Times . Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  5. Alexander, Ella (16 January 2014). "Meet Laura Jackson: A New Genre Of It-Girl". British Vogue . Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  6. "Style Star: Laura Jackson". Living North. October 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  7. Stelfox, Hilarie (8 April 2018). "Former Shelley College student Laura Jackson stars in new BBC game show". Huddersfield Examiner . Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  8. "Laura & Alice #Food Column". Company. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  9. Bryant, Amy (12 November 2019). "Jackson & Levine: meet the pair behind the coolest supperclub in town". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  10. de Klerk, Amy (26 September 2017). "Laura Jackson wears Rejina Pyo for her beautiful beach wedding". Harper's Bazaar . Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  11. "Take Me Out: The Gossip host Laura Jackson announces birth of first child with intimate Instagram pictures". Entertainment Daily UK. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.