Jane Garvey Biography
Jane Garvey is a British radio presenter who previously hosted BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and co-founded the weekly podcast series Fortunately (since March 2017).
How old is Jane Garvey? – Age
She is 59 years old as of 23 June 2023. She was born in 1964 in Crosby, United Kingdom. Her real name is Jane Susan Garvey.
Jane Garvey Family – Education
Her father is Ray Garvey, and her mother, Maureen (born O’Neill), worked as a hospital receptionist. She attended Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ institution in Crosby, which is a private institution in Merseyside. She is an English graduate from the University of Birmingham. Garvey describes her childhood as “cosy, predictable, and loving,” and says her maternal grandmother’s presence with her family while she was growing up contributed to her interest in interviewing older women. She calls herself a feminist.
Jane Garvey Husband – Children
Garvey married Adrian Chiles, a television personality, in September 1998 in Swansea. They lived in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, and had two daughters, Evelyn Katarina, born in January 2000 and Sian Mary, born in March 2003. Chiles and Garvey separated in June 2008, then divorced in October 2009.
Jane Garvey Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £75,487.
Jane Garvey Podcast
On March 29, 2017, Garvey and fellow broadcaster Fi Glover launched Fortunately…with Fi and Jane, a weekly podcast series on BBC Radio 4. Fortunately, began broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 on January 12, 2021.
As of 2018, Garvey earned between £150,000 and £160,000, making her one of the top 25 highest-paid presenters at the BBC. Jane Garvey broadcast her final Woman’s Hour on 31 December 2020. Garvey will become the Radio Times’ new weekly television columnist in June 2021, succeeding Alison Graham, who is retiring. On October 10, 2022, Garvey and co-presenter Fi Glover departed the BBC for Times Radio, where they host a live show from 3pm-5pm Monday through Thursday, as well as the podcast Off Air… with Jane and Fi.
Jane Garvey Career
Garvey was utilized as a clinical records representative in a money organization, as a student for a publicizing office and as a secretary prior to turning into an advancements collaborator for Radio Wyvern, where she later became news proofreader, leaving in 1988 to join BBC Hereford and Worcester as a journalist. The station started in February 1989. In that year, Garvey was moderator of The Morning meal Show at BBC Hereford and Worcester, where Ben Cooper filled in as her collaborator.
Garvey’s was the main voice on BBC Radio 5 Live when it sent off at 5:00 am on 28 Walk 1994. She turned into the co-moderator of 5 Live’s honor winning breakfast program in 1994, and furthermore introduced the Everywoman program on the BBC World Help. She was additionally the moderator of the relaunched Noontime show on BBC Radio 5 Live (during which the honor winning Postcards from the Road series by Stan Burridge was communicated).
Her last long haul task on 5 Live was as co-moderator of its Drive show on work day evenings with Peter Allen. She and Allen have won four Sony Gold Honors, and their relationship on air was portrayed in The Times in 2002 as “a marriage made in radio paradise”. In September 1997, Garvey was a traveler on the Swansea train in the Southall rail crash, and got acclaim for her on-the-spot reports.
In May 2007, in a conversation on the 10th commemoration of the Work Party acquiring power in the Unified Realm, Garvey accidentally uncovered an obvious supportive of Work predisposition at the BBC. She thought back how, the morning after the 1997 general political decision, “the passages of Broadcasting House were tossed with void champagne bottles – I will continuously recall that”, however adding that the BBC had “maybe dropped out of affection with Work” in later years.
In September 2007, it was reported she would leave 5 Live following 13 years. On Monday 8 October 2007 she joined BBC Radio 4’s Lady’s Hour program as the second head moderator, succeeding Martha Kearney in the job. She made a minor mix in February 2008 in a meeting in The Gatekeeper, portraying Lady’s Hour as too working class and focused on cooking. She returned momentarily to BBC Radio 5 Live in November 2011 as a substitute moderator as soon as possible Take program. In June 2016, it was reported Garvey would be brought together with Allen on BBC Radio 5 Live, for another Sunday-night program.