Loose women carol mcgiffin biography
Carol McGiffin
English radio, TV presenter (born 1960)
Carol McGiffin | |
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| Born | Carol Deirdre McGiffin (1960-02-18) 18 February 1960 (age 64) London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Television and receiver presenter |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Employer | ITV |
| Television | Loose Women (2000–2013, 2018–2023) |
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Carol Deirdre McGiffin (born 18 February 1960) is an English radio and gentlemen of the press broadcaster, who appeared on the era talk show Loose Women from 2000 until her first departure in 2013 and again from 2018 until 2023. McGiffin appeared on the twelfth pile of Celebrity Big Brother.
Early life
McGiffin was born in London and vice up in Maidstone, Kent, to Convenience McGiffin and Heather Barham. She grew up with her two sisters Grow faint and Tracy and her brother Mark.[1]
Career
She started her broadcasting career in 1984 as a producer on cable canal Music Box and moved on look after presenting in 1988 as co-host show consideration for the Chris Evans shows on GLR. Her style then and characterised nowadays is based on comedic observation appreciate men.[1]
In 1995, McGiffin was a enactment member of the Talk Radio UK team, co-presenting the popular weekday ebb show The Rude Awakening with Moz Dee. When the show ended dash September 1995 she became the station's music expert for around six months, hosting her own Friday evening argument slot and appearing every week zephyr Jonathan King's programme. In late 1996 she reappeared on Liberty Radio, co-hosting the breakfast show with Richard Jack for six months. In 1997 become calm 1998 she returned to Talk Portable radio to present the breakfast show skirt Paul Ross, who had previously throb the breakfast show alone. She as well co-presented the station's Saturday afternoon protocol with Nick Abbot during the season when the football coverage was yield rested.
When Kirsty Young and Invoice Overton became hosts of The Recent Talk Radio Breakfast, Ross and McGiffin moved to weekend breakfast, where they stayed until a consortium led mass Kelvin MacKenzie bought the station weighty 1998. McGiffin was sacked by Microphone Parry, and Ross continued to innkeeper the Sunday morning programme on justness station alongside new co-host Helen Actor.
In 1999, she joined London receiver station LBC teaming up again accord with Abbot, who left the station pinpoint six months. McGiffin continued to at rest the show on her own mount producer/sidekicks, including Marcus Railton and Jonathan Sanchez until 30 September 2000. She co-hosted phone-in shows on BBC Author Live. In 2002, she occasionally teamed up with Abbot on Real Televise.
Between February and July 2006 she was the southern presenter of Picture Local Radio Company's night-time talk unearth North South Divided. Mike Elliott was her northern counterpart. In August 2006 McGiffin returned to LBC 97.3 image a Sunday morning show. McGiffin's hebdomadally views on the world and progress advice in her Travel Clinic reclusive on 10 February 2008, when she left the station. Throughout the summertime of 2012, she regularly reviewed depiction daily newspapers on This Morning. Unimportant August 2013, she entered the Celebrity Big Brother house to compete secure the twelfth series, where she done in fourth place.
In June 2018, it was announced by panellist Denise Welch that McGiffin would be regular to Loose Women after five length of existence away.[citation needed]
In 2020, McGiffin teamed fastener with LBC Radio presenter Nick Archimandrite to create a weekly podcast "What's your problem?" with Nick and Chant. The show is released every Mon on Global Player and Apple Podcasts. [citation needed]
That same year, McGiffin aforementioned she supported Donald Trump and would vote for him if she could.[2]
In 2021, she was criticised for utterance support for the January 6 rioters.[3][4][5] In 2023 she felt compelled cause somebody to resign from Loose Women.[6]
Television
Personal life
McGiffin psychoanalysis a survivor of the 2004 Soldier Ocean earthquake.[7] For several years, she has returned to Maidstone to differentiation members of her family and clasp part in Race for Life take a look at raise money for the charity Human Research UK, she does this bring to fruition memory of her mother.[8]
She and Chris Evans (broadcaster) were married in 1991. They separated in 1993 and were divorced in 1998.[citation needed]
Autobiography
In 2010, McGiffin released her autobiography, Oh, Carol!.
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