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Lara Lewington
Born
Danielle Lara Lewington

(1979-05-10) 10 May 1979 (age 45)
Chichester, Sussex, England
OccupationTelevision presenter
Spouse
(m. 2009)
Children1

Danielle Lara Lewington (born 10 May 1979) is a television presenter, journalist and former English weather presenter.[1][2]

Early career

Lewington attended Surbiton High School.[3] She began her career in television working as a presenter while taking her degree.[citation needed]

Lewington joined Five in January 2003, as their weather presenter.[4] She also went on to become the showbiz correspondent for Five News, before a stint as showbiz correspondent on Sky News[5].

Outside Five she has contributed to various shows including the Weakest Link News and Weather special, ITV1's Celebrities Exposed and E!'s 101 Greatest programmes.[citation needed] She has also appeared weekly on ITV's The Impressionable Jon Culshaw, was a panellist on ITV's Win, Lose or Draw, and has appeared on BBC Two's Newsnight, Channel 4's RI:SE, Big Brother's EFourum (now known as Big Brother's Big Mouth), ITV's Britain's Best Dish, the BBC's Let's Dance For Sports Relief and appeared as one of the four representatives of Five TV on the BBC1 Sport Relief Superstars special.[citation needed]

Current career

Since 2011 she has been a reporter on BBC's Click.[6] She is also the technology columnist for Woman magazine[7]. While interviewing Yusaku Maezawa for Click, Yusaku Maezawa asked Lara is she was willing to join a trip to go around the Moon in 2023(#dearMoon) she enthusiastically said yes, time will tellYusaku Maezawa interview[8].

She has also taken part in a live twerking event on national television and came 8th.[citation needed]

Other appearances

Lewington can be seen presenting the weather on a background monitor in the Daily Planet newsroom in the 2006 film Superman Returns.[9]

Personal life

She married TV's Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis on 31 May 2009.[2] She gave birth to their first child on 1 November 2012. [10]

References

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Lara's Biography". Archived from the original on 2012-06-21. Retrieved 2012-06-06. trained journalist ... married to Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis
  3. ^ "Surbiton High Pupils receive award at the National Awards Ceremony for WOHAA". Surbiton High School. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  4. ^ "The 5-minute Interview: Lara Lewington, TV and weather presenter". The Independent. 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  5. ^ "Lara Lewington Home".
  6. ^ "BBC Click website". Archived from the original on 2008-01-03. Lara can be regularly seen on BBC Click
  7. ^ "Knight Ayton".
  8. ^ "Yusaku Maezawa".
  9. ^ "Female First".
  10. ^ "Looking after the world's most precious Sapphire". I'm on paternity leave at the moment as last Thursday our beautiful first child (MSE Junior) was born. Her name is Sapphire Susan Lewis