Jackie Bird

Journalist

Jackie Bird was born in Bellshill, Scotland, United Kingdom on July 31st, 1962 and is the Journalist. At the age of 61, Jackie Bird biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
July 31, 1962
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Bellshill, Scotland, United Kingdom
Age
61 years old
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Journalist
Jackie Bird Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 61 years old, Jackie Bird physical status not available right now. We will update Jackie Bird's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Height
Not Available
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Not Available
Eye Color
Not Available
Build
Not Available
Measurements
Not Available
Jackie Bird Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Not Available
Jackie Bird Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Bob Bird (div. 2006), Robin Weir ​(m. 2007)​
Children
Claudia, Jacob
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
Not Available
Jackie Bird Life

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.

Source

Jackie Bird Career

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.

Source

The knees of Jackie and Dougray are aching for Tartan Day

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 6, 2024
Jackie Bird, a cheerful and familiar face on Scots' television screens for years, was a recurring fixture on Scots' television screens. And yesterday, the broadcaster was back in the spotlight, this time at Tartan Week in New York. Ms Bird travelled to the Big Apple in her capacity as president of the National Trust for Scotland, and she expressed her elation at being able to attend her first Tartan Week among the ritziness of the annual Tartan Day parade. It's amazing, the atmosphere is incredible, and the New Yorkers are raving about it,' she said. Many people have a strong link to Scotland, and there is a strong sense of family cohesion.' The ex-BBC presenter sported a tartan kilt created by Graeme Bone of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, joined by Scottish actor Dougray Scott, this year's grand marshal.

On THIS BBC Children in Need exhibit, Jackie Bird managed to mask her agony

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 20, 2023
During a live broadcast, TV presenter Jackie Bird talked about how she needed assistance when she recurred a medical condition.