Jackie Bird
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Jackie Bird (née Macpherson), born 31 July 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster best known as a former anchor of BBC Scotland's national news service Reporting Scotland.
Early life
Jacqueline Macpherson was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, on July 31, 1962, and the niece of Linda and Ronnie Macpherson. Bird attended Earnock High School in Hamilton.
Personal life
At The Sun in Glasgow, Bird met Bob Bird, a newspaper editor. Claudia and Jacob married and moved to London, where they had their two children Claudia and Jacob had lived. The couple divorced in 2006, and Robin Weir, an investment manager at Crutherland House Hotel in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, married her the following year.
After experiencing a rare bowel disorder, Bird's small and large intestine was removed in 2012.
Career
Bird was 17 when she began working with DC Thomson in Dundee on teenage magazines and then became Jackie magazine's pop editor. She then spent time as a broadcast journalist on Radio Clyde's news staff and then as a food critic for the Glasgow Evening Times. After being a newspaper reporter, Bird joined Television South in Maidstone as a reporter and host of the South East edition of the national news show Coast to Coast.
On Monday, Bird left televisions to join BBC Scotland, making her debut as a main presenter of Reporting Scotland. She has also been a main host of BBC Scotland's most popular event show programmes, including Hogmanay Live and the Scottish Children in Need opt-outs.
Bird has written and produced comedy series The Lewis Lectures and Having it All for BBC Radio Scotland, and he has written and produced Comedian and Comedy sequences.
In a commencement ceremony at the University of Glasgow on June 13, 2012, she was given the honourary degree of Doctor of Letters (D Litt).
In October 2014, Bird spent 25 years on Reporting Scotland as the program's longest serving host.
Bird, the main presenter of Reporting Scotland, has left Scotland after almost 30 years as a main presenter, and will focus on other initiatives, according to BBC Scotland on April 11, 2019. Bird had been on display at her last evening the evening before announcing her departure.