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Angie Phillips BBC Wikipedia, Age, Husband, Married, Wedding, Bio

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Name Angie Phillips

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB As of 2025, she is around 57 years old. An old interview in 2000, had mentioned her age as 33 back then.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wiki Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

  • Angie Phillips is a weather reporter and meteorologist who works for the BBC Newsline in London.
  • Quite the skilled juggler, Angie does an excellent job of balancing her work with being a wife and a mother.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Little is known about Angie’s background or childhood as she has not talked much about her private life away in public. She was, however, born and raised in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
  • Angie is married to former guitarist and rock band member, Ben Trowell.
  • Ben’s band was called “Ghost of an American Airman” and frequently toured Europe as well as the United States. The band enjoyed a fair bit of success, as they had signed with Hollywood Records and even released a few albums.
  • The pair were regularly apart with Phillips working in Northern Ireland, England and Scotland most of the time, while Trowell was out touring. Ben wrote a ton of love letters to Angie during this time, and she even had to throw some out because they were just so many!
  • When the couple tied the knot in the month of June, it was raining.
  • Now married for around three decades, Ben and Angie have three children. All her kids were born between 1994 and 2000.
  • Angie’s pregnancies were difficult as she had polycystic ovary syndrome, a painful and frustrating ailment that causes difficulties for couples planning a family. She even miscarried a baby, before her first one was born.
  • Angie advises couples to persevere and not let the painful situation take control of their lives. She also recommends seeking advice from doctors and consultants for different pregnancy treatments.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

  • When Angie was in high school, she enjoyed geography and maths and thought about pursuing a career in either one of the two.
  • Later, she applied to the Queens University as well as the Met Office College and was accepted into both institutions but, she decided to temporarily ditch meteorology for a maths degree.
  • She quickly regretted her decision and one year after starting school, she dropped out and moved to the Met Office College and the Reading College of Technology in Berkshire, UK.

TV Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

  • Angie began her career in 1985 working at the Belfast Climate Office. She was moved to the Edinburgh Climate Office despite picking forecasting as her first choice.
  • After one year, Phillips transferred to the Weather Centre in Glasgow where she spent the next one and a half years working as a forecaster.
  • Angie briefly returned to Northern Ireland and worked at Aldergrove before being requested to take a trip to London to do screen testing for the ITN station.
  • At first, she wanted to miss out as it was during her time off but, she eventually decided to go and was asked to come back for a national weather screen test a few months after her initial test.
  • She joined the team at ITN in 1993 and worked for three years before moving to BBC Newsline in 1996 where she currently works as a weather reporter and meteorologist.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

  • Outside of work, Phillips enjoys reading, going to the theatre and listening to music.
  • She has admitted that she is not the sportiest person but, she is a big fan of rugby and catches live matches whenever she can.
  • She has talked openly about how much she loves being approached by people who watch her on TV and talked about how it shows that the weather truly connects people and gives them something to talk about.
  • In an interview she mentioned that her husband, Ben, would have liked five children, but Angie had no plans for more after the arrival of their third child.
Body Figure / Physical Info

Measurements :

  • Eye Colour : Blue
  • Haircut / Hair Colour : Blonde
  • How tall / Height : No confirmed information is available.
  • Feet / Legs / Boots / Shoe Size : No confirmed information is available.
  • Pregnant? : Currently, she is not expecting a baby.
  • Weight Loss : A few Google queries regarding this, but we couldn’t find anything conclusive on any of her social media.
Personal / Home / Contact Details
  • Marital Status / Married? : Yes
  • Children / No of Kids : 3
  • Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race : White
  • Nationality : British

2 thoughts on “Angie Phillips BBC Wikipedia, Age, Husband, Married, Wedding, Bio”

  1. I thought Angie Philips came from Philadelphia with her brother Michael and lived in Glenalina area of Ballymurphy

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