Jackie Brambles

Jackie Brambles
Occupation(s)	Television presenter, Actress
Spouse	David Tod (2005-)

Jackie Brambles (born 1 March 1967), formerly known as Jakki Brambles, is a British television presenter.

Biography

Brambles grew up in Essex, England and on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, and began her radio career on local Scottish radio station West Sound in Ayr as a studio cleaner, whose personality was noticed and put on the air. She currently lives in Scotland as she says often on Loose Women.

BBC Radio 1

She then joined Capital Radio as its youngest ever DJ, and after a year on the evening show joined the BBC in 1988 as the first female presenter to get her own weekday show on the national pop network BBC Radio 1. She took on the Radio 1 early show, initially at weekends, before graduating to the weekday equivalent, essentially working as a warm-up act for breakfast host Simon Mayo. She also joined her colleagues on the Top Of The Pops presentation roster. When Sybil Ruscoe left her role as Mayo's weather and travel reporter, Brambles took over that slot, thereby keeping her on air each day over two separate programmes. On her own shows, she worked with a portable microphone headset and wandered round the studio during links in order to maintain a more 'live' feel, claiming she found it difficult to keep her demeanour lively enough if she was seated. The combination with Mayo worked well but a minor revamp in 1990 saw Brambles progress to a 90-minute drivetime show and then, when Gary Davies went to weekends, promotion to the important lunchtime slot. Brambles was arguably the station's first female sex symbol since the heyday of Annie Nightingale in the 1970s and as such, some interest was paid towards her by the media over her private life, though there was little to report.

GMTV

She married a Scotsman and ultimately left Radio 1 in 1993 to move to the States. They divorced 3 years later. There was a plan to make her an American showbiz reporter for the BBC but this never transpired.Instead she re-branded herself as the more maturely-spelt Jackie Brambles, and took on a similar role for GMTV, interviewing almost every major name in Hollywood.

Loose Women

After leaving GMTV, sShe guested severally times on the show in 2005. Also, during Kaye Adam's pregnancy in 2006, Jackie hosted the show in Kaye's place, which in turn lead to her becoming the new leading host of the show.

Present

Brambles married David Tod on 5 August, 2005 in the Caribbean. The couple have a boy called Stanley (born 23 March, 2006) born on David's birth date at the Portland Hospital; and a girl Florence (born 7 March, 2007); as a result of which Brambles left GMTV to concentrate on motherhood.

Brambles is one of the main presenters on the ITV lunchtime show Loose Women.

External links

• Archive Jackie Brambles images, bio and audio clips from Radio Rewind website