Nina Hossain Biography
Nina Hossain is a British journalist and television presenter who works for ITN as the lead host of the ITV Lunchtime News. She hosted the weekly Coronavirus: Q&A on ITV from March to June 2020.
How old is Nina Hossain? – Age
She is 46 years old as of 1 May 2021. She was born in 1975 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.
Nina Hossain Family – Husband
Hossain was born in the United Kingdom to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. Her father, Dr. Tabarek Hossain, was born in Bangladesh and immigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1960s (when Bangladesh was still East Pakistan). Pamela, an English nurse from Nottingham, married her father. Hossain and her younger sister, Rezina, “were nominally Muslim,” she says, despite the fact that her father never discussed religion with her.
Who are Nina Hossain’s Parents?
She is no longer married to her ex-husband of eight years, Sky News editor Craig O’Hara. Hossain has been in a relationship with her current partner, Stuart Thomas, former editor of ITV’s London Tonight regional news program, since the spring of 2005, and the couple has three children.
Nina Hossain Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
How much does Nina Hossain Earn?
She earns a salary of around $200,000.
Nina Hossain Career
Hossain’s desire to be a journalist began at a young age. She is a graduate of the University of Durham. She then earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire’s Journalism, Media, and Communication department in Preston.
She was selected for a traineeship at ITV Border on Lookaround in 1996, where she worked as a news presenter, producer, and reporter. She worked as a presenter for The Medical Channel in 2000. In 2001, she joined BBC London News as a presenter and reporter. She took over as the show’s main presenter in March 2004, when Emily Maitlis went on maternity leave.
She was the word pronouncer for the first series of Hard Spell, a BBC One spelling bee for kids. She reprised this role in a one-off episode of the spin-off Star Spell, but by the time Star Spell became a full series, she had moved to ITV and was replaced by BBC newsreader Mishal Husain, who continued in this role through the second series of Hard Spell.
Hossain joined ITN in November 2004 as the main co-presenter for the ITV Evening News on ITV while Mary Nightingale was on maternity leave. Following her return, Nightingale worked as a relief presenter for ITV London and ITV News. In April 2010, she was also a GMTV guest presenter, filling in for Lorraine Kelly on GMTV with Lorraine.
She took over for Katie Derham as a presenter of London Tonight in June 2010, initially alongside Donal MacIntyre. She did, however, become the sole presenter on November 1, 2010. She also co-presented the ITV Lunchtime News with Alastair Stewart. Hossain was a part of ITV’s Election Live coverage in 2015, 2017, and 2019. Hossain announced his departure from ITV News London on May 24, 2019, to become the lead presenter of ITV Lunchtime News. On June 19, 2019, she delivered her final ITV News London 6pm bulletin. She is still a guest presenter on ITV News at Ten on occasion. Hossain has contributed to the ITV shows Exposure and On Assignment.