Carol Malia Age, Wikipedia Biography, BBC, Height, Husband, Salary

Name Carol Malia

Date of Birth / Birthday / Age / How old is Carol Malia Born around 1968. As of 2024, she is around 56 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner Married to her husband, Garry Hudson. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wiki Bio / Profile Background

Introduction :

Carol Malia is the main presenter for BBC Look North, for the North East and Cumbria, who shot to attention with her later-in-life pregnancies.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

Carol Malia was born in England in a small, middle-class family.
From an early age, she showed an interest in writing and often volunteered to work with the school newspapers.
Education : She went on to study journalism, and graduated with honors.

She is known to be an extremely private person, and only opens up if she feels a topic requires it.
An avid swimmer, she swims daily and used that as a means to keep fit.
Although she has stated that she loves to cook, she admits she is not very good at it, with a lot of her attempts turning into fails when she tries to get too creative with it. She even mentions this on her Twitter (now called X) profile.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Carol is the main presenter for BBC’s Look North programme & has been there since 1996.
Initially, she shared this role with fellow journalist John Lawrence, however, as of 2017 she is the sole holder of that spot.

The role was given to her after the previous presenter, Mike Neville, left the programme to work for Tyne Tees Television.
Neville had held the role from 1964 to 1996, and Carol was advised that she had ‘big shoes to fill,’ however, her work on the programme has been praised as being honest and natural.

Carol Malia Gary Hudson Marriage :

Although Carol tries to remain as private as possible with her life, it is known that she married company director Garry Hudson in the early 2000s.
The two were desperate to start a family but had trouble conceiving, although it is not known what those troubles were.
They toyed with the idea of adopting but eventually decided against it.

In June 2009, after they had given up on the idea of children, she found out she was pregnant with daughter Anna.
The couple were overjoyed and shared the news both privately and publicly, only to be met with criticisms of Carol for putting the child at risk by conceiving at the age of 42.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

Carol shot back at critics for their negativity & stated the pregnancy was not planned, but that obviously she would be putting the health of her child above everything else.
She subsequently lessened her duties with the BBC to ensure she had more time to focus on her pregnancy and attended weekly check-ups.
Despite her age, she had an easy pregnancy, and there were no complications with the delivery.

Approximately two years after the birth of daughter Anna, she found out she was pregnant again. Due to the negativity surrounding her first pregnancy, she kept quieter about this one. She went on to have a son named Nicholas.

Body Figure / Physical Info

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Personal / Home / Contact Details

Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race : White
Nationality : British
Carol Malia Weight Loss / Weight Gain : In just eight months, around 2016-17, Carol shed three-and-a-half stones. Post that, she started inspiring others to live a healthier lifestyle.

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