1. Louise Mary Minchin is a British television presenter, journalist and former news presenter who currently works freelance within the BBC.
27 Facts About Louise Minchin
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On 8 June 2021, Louise Minchin announced live on air that she would be leaving BBC Breakfast "after the summer", after presenting the show for 20 years.
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From 2009 until 2012, Louise Minchin co-hosted Real Rescues alongside Nick Knowles and Chris Hollins.
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Louise Minchin has guest-hosted The One Show a number of times since 2010.
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The eldest of three children, Minchin was born Louise Mary Grayson in 1968 in British Hong Kong, where her father was a Major in the Irish Guards of the British Army.
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Louise Minchin grew up in Berkshire, and was educated at St Mary's School, Ascot, and has a degree in Spanish from the University of St Andrews.
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Louise Minchin subsequently studied journalism at the London College of Communication.
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Louise Minchin started her career in the Latin American section of the BBC World Service during a year in Argentina, the Today programme, Five and various local radio stations.
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Louise Minchin started work for Radio 5 Live in 1998, and married David Minchin the same year.
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Louise Minchin presented many of the station's main programmes, including Drive and Breakfast.
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Louise Minchin was one of the main relief presenters for BBC News at One until April 2012.
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In 2006 and 2007, Louise Minchin was a relief presenter on BBC Breakfast while Kate Silverton covered for main anchor Sian Williams.
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From 21 April 2008, Louise Minchin presented a weekday programme called Missing Live along with Rav Wilding.
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From 2 November 2009, Louise Minchin presented four weeks of live broadcasts of Real Rescues along with Nick Knowles.
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Louise Minchin presented In the Know, a BBC sports magazine programme on Saturday mornings on BBC One during the 2004 Athens Olympics alongside co-presenter John Inverdale.
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Louise Minchin covered again when the show returned in July 2010 for two weeks alongside Matt Baker and one episode with Matt Allwright.
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Louise Minchin has worked as an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 4's daily consumer programme You and Yours.
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Louise Minchin has played herself reading the news in three BBC series: spy drama Spooks, crime drama Silent Witness and the Torchwood mini-series Children of Earth.
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In 2016, Louise Minchin competed in Celebrity MasterChef on BBC One, finishing second.
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In June 2021, BBC announced that Louise Minchin was to leave BBC Breakfast after almost 20 years of working on the show.
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In November 2021, Louise Minchin was announced as a contestant on the twenty-first series of I'm a Celebrity.
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In January 2025, Louise Minchin began co-presenting Rip Off Britain; replacing Angela Rippon.
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Louise Minchin is an amateur triathlete, and qualified as a member of the 2015 Great Britain Age-Group Triathlon Team.
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Louise Minchin competed in the standard distance event at the World Triathlon Championships in Chicago on 19 September 2015.
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Louise Minchin went on to finish 71st out of 78 finishers at the ITU World Triathlon Championships.
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In 2019, Louise Minchin talked about her experiences with menopause, describing her experience of suffering hot flushes on the BBC Breakfast set that led to the temperature in the studio being lowered.
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Louise Minchin has taken part in "Around the World in 80 days" for Children in Need.