Louise Lear was born on Tracy Louise Barden, 14 December 1967 and is a British television and radio journalist who works as a presenter for BBC Weather.
12 Facts About Louise Lear
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Louise Lear has appeared on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button and BBC Radio.
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Louise Lear is a regular forecaster on the BBC News at Six and was previously a weekend presenter on BBC Breakfast.
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Louise Lear grew up in the village of Rothley in the Borough of Charnwood, Leicestershire and went to the Humphrey Perkins School, until the age of 14.
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Louise Lear took her O-levels and A-levels at Rawlins Academy in Quorn, gaining four in 1985.
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Louise Lear graduated from Middlesex University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Drama.
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Louise Lear joined the UK Weather Channel at its launch in 1996 and took up her most recent post at the BBC in April 1998.
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Louise Lear has presented other BBC programmes, including Trading Up on BBC One.
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Louise Lear was chosen to undertake the role as she and her husband have renovated four houses in London, including a cottage where they lived with their two young children.
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Louise Lear has presented the weather forecast on the BBC One programme Countryfile.
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Louise Lear memorably giggled through a BBC weather forecast in 2016.
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Louise Lear married Ian Lear of Quorn, Leicestershire, at St Botolph's Church, Shepshed, in 1990; the honeymoon was in Florida.