Jenny Eclair Biography
Jenny Eclair is an English comedian, author, and actor best known for her appearances in Grumpy Old Women and Loose Women.
How old is Jenny Eclair? – Age
She is 63 years old as of 6 March 2023. She was born in 1960 in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Jenny Eclair Family – Education
Eclair was born to English parents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where her father, Derek Hargreaves, a major in the British Army, was stationed in 1952. Eclair returned to England when she was two years old and began her education at Queen Mary School (now AKS Lytham, following two separate mergers) in Lytham St Annes. She is reported to have taken on the alternate surname Eclair (later her stage name) in her teens while pretending to be French at a club in Blackpool. She attended Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama (now Manchester Metropolitan University) and became a member of the cabaret ensemble Kathy Lacreme and the Rum Babas, also known as Cathy La Crème and the Rum Babas.
Jenny Eclair Husband – Daughter
Eclair married Geof Powell in July 2017. She has previously claimed that marriages are “naff”. She is the mother of playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell, born in 1990.
Jenny Eclair Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Jenny Eclair Podcast
Eclair now co-hosts the podcast ‘Older and Wider Podcast’ with Judith Holder, whom she met and worked with on Grumpy Old Women.
Jenny Eclair Loose Women
From 2011 to 2012, Eclair returned as a panelist on Loose Women, where she had previously appeared in 2003. On May 30, 2012, she participated on her final Loose Women episode and was replaced by actress Shobna Gulati.
Jenny Eclair Radio
Until April 2008, Eclair had a weekend chat show on LBC 97.3. Her other radio credits include appearances on BBC Radio 4’s Just a Minute quiz and afternoon plays, numerous comedy shows on BBC 7, and regular coverage for Sandi Toksvig on LBC’s weekly lunchtime talk show (since defunct).
Between 2014 and 2022, Eclair authored seven series (36 episodes) of Little Lifetimes, short monologues for female performers, which aired on BBC Radio 4. In addition to Eclair, the monologist has been played by Dame Harriet Walter, Haydn Gwynne, Monica Dolan, Vicki Pepperdine, Imelda Staunton, Anita Dobson, and Ruth Sheen.
She has also hosted her own show on London’s LBC Radio and performed in several stage shows. Eclair filled in for Danny Baker on BBC London 94.9 from Tuesday, August 30, to Friday, September 2, 2011.
Jenny Eclair Career
In 1989, when she was named the Break Nightclub Grant champ, she said it “was decent in light of the fact that it’s whenever I’ve first at any point won without running 100 meters adjusting an egg on a spoon.” In 1995, Eclair was the principal lady to win the Perrier Grant, presently known as the Edinburgh Satire Grants, at the Edinburgh Periphery Celebration.
Eclair created, and showed up on, BBC Two’s Irritable Elderly people Ladies and its different side project shows. In 2006, Eclair featured in the stage show Crotchety Elderly people Ladies Live! with Dillie Keane and Linda Robson. The show was co-composed by Eclair and Judith Holder. The spring saw a rat public visit, and June and July a run at the Verse Theater in London’s West End, and the fall saw another public visit.
After an early appearance as a German lodging laborer in Auf Wiedersehen Pet Eclair featured in the ITV show The Bill and showed up in the mid 1990s Channel 4 satire series Parcel of Three with Blunt Skinner, as well as the subsequent series Pressing Them In. In 1995, she turned into the primary female independent victor of the Edinburgh Periphery Celebration’s Perrier Satire Grant. In 1997, she played “Josie” in the stage play Steaming by Nell Dunn. In 2001, she distributed her most memorable novel Camberwell Magnificence.
Eclair gave elective critique of the Eurovision Melody Challenge 2002 for BBC Decision watchers as a component of the channel’s Fluid Eurovision Party inclusion, as a late substitution for telecaster Christopher Cost who passed on the month prior to the challenge occurred.
In 2005, Eclair showed up in the unscripted TV drama Lighthearted element Does Popularity Foundation. On 18 November 2010, she joined the 2010 series of I’m a Big name… Get Me Out of Here!, completing in third spot behind Stacey Solomon and Shaun Ryder.
In August 2012, she showed up in Big name MasterChef on BBC One. She was a hopeful in The Incomparable Earthenware Toss Down’s December 2022 happy big name show. She was a hopeful in the fifteenth series of Drill sergeant (circulated Walk June 2023), close by humorists Frankie Boyle, Mae Martin, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Ivo Graham.