Carol Kirkwood Biography
Carol Kirkwood is a British weather presenter who was trained by the Met Office and currently works for the BBC, most notably on BBC Breakfast and Victoria Derbyshire. She finished tenth in the thirteenth series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.
How old is Carol Kirkwood? – Age
She is 59 years old as of 29 May 2021. She was born Carol MacKellaig in 1962 in Morar, United Kingdom.
Carol Kirkwood Family – Education
Carol was one of eight children born to hoteliers in Morar. Kirkwood earned a BA in commerce from Napier College of Commerce and Technology in Edinburgh after attending Lochaber High School in Fort William.
Carol Kirkwood Husband
Kirkwood was married to Jimmy Kirkwood, but the couple divorced in 2008.
Carol Kirkwood Salary
She earns an annual salary of $400000.
Carol Kirkwood Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Carol Kirkwood Career
Kirkwood worked as a secretarial reserve for the BBC in London after graduating. Following a series of internal moves, she began presenting short slots on BBC Radio Scotland, followed by BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4. She left the BBC after her marriage to Jimmy Kirkwood and went on to work in recruitment and then as a training consultant for a management consultancy in Cheshire. She appeared on a now-defunct cable TV channel, Windsor TV, later renamed Wire TV, with Sacha Baron Cohen in 1992.
She returned to the BBC in 1993 as a freelance presenter at the corporation’s Elstree Studios training department, where she also hosted the bi-monthly Talking Issues for HTV West. Kirkwood joined The Weather Channel’s new UK operation in 1996, but after it closed down, she trained at the Met Office under the supervision of the BBC before joining BBC News in April 1998 as a weather presenter. She has since appeared on all of BBC Weather’s radio and television output, including BBC News, BBC World News, BBC News at Six, and live forecasts as part of the BBC’s Wimbledon Tennis Championships coverage.
On BBC Breakfast, Kirkwood is the main weather presenter. In 2013, the show relocated from London to MediaCityUK in Salford, but Kirkwood remained in London, presenting the weather on Breakfast via video link. She was the BBC’s presenter. She hosted The Weather Show for the BBC and is a regular contributor and reporter for The One Show. Kirkwood co-hosted the BBC One series The Great British Weather in 2011. She also provided weather forecasts on BBC Radio 2’s The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. Kirkwood has appeared on the CBBC show Hacker Time as a guest. She appeared on the BBC One panel show Would I Lie to You? in 2014. Kirkwood made a cameo appearance on Hollyoaks in October 2018.
