Rachael Bland
Rachael Bland was born in Creigiau, Wales, United Kingdom on January 21st, 1978 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 40, Rachael Bland biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Rachael Benjamin Bland (née Hodges, 1978 – 5 September 2018), a Welsh journalist and host of BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC North West Tonight, was born in 1978.
She was well known for her show, You, Me and the Big C, which was broadcast while she was sick with breast cancer and in which she addressed breast cancer issues and treatment.
She wrote For Freddie, a memoir that was published posthumously early the following year, in the final months of her life.
Personal life
In September 2013, she married BBC Radio 5 Live producer Steve Bland. Freddie was their son together, and they had a son together. Bland competed as a triathlete at the 2010 London Triathlon, raising funds for Breast Cancer Care. She has run the London Marathon several times.
Career
Bland was born in Cardiff. She began her career with BBC Local Radio station BBC Wiltshire, where she began presenting news bulletins. She then moved to BBC Radio 5 Live, where she became the straight talking foil to Bacon on The Special Half Hour Club, where she began reading the news on Richard Bacon's show.
Bland began hosting sports on television, as well as being a relief and weekend host for BBC News Channel and BBC World News. When BBC Radio 5 Live moved to MediaCityUK, Salford Quays in 2011, Bland began to appear on BBC North West Tonight as both a newsreader and as the main relief presenter.