Jackie Bird has a younger brother and grew up in a council house in Hamilton, where her father was a school janitor and her mother worked in an old persons' home.
10 Facts About Jackie Bird
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Jackie Bird left TVS to join BBC Scotland, making her debut as a main presenter of Reporting Scotland on Monday 16 October 1989.
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Jackie Bird has been a main presenter of key event programming for BBC Scotland, including Hogmanay Live and the Scottish Children in Need opt-outs.
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Jackie Bird is a newspaper columnist and has written and produced comedy series The Lewis Lectures and Having it All for BBC Radio Scotland.
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In October 2014, Jackie Bird celebrated 25 years of working on Reporting Scotland, as the programme's longest-serving presenter.
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On 11 April 2019, BBC Scotland announced Jackie Bird had left Reporting Scotland after nearly 30 years as a main presenter to concentrate on projects.
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Jackie Bird presented her final programme the previous evening, without announcing her departure.
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In 2018, Jackie Bird made a brief cameo appearance in the zombie Christmas musical film Anna and the Apocalypse.
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Jackie Bird met Bob Jackie Bird, a newspaper editor, at The Sun in Glasgow.
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In 2012, Jackie Bird had sections of her small and large intestine removed after suffering a rare bowel condition.