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Introduction :
Eleanor Oldroyd is a British sports journalist. She has worked as a host for BBC’s Radio 5.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Eleanor Oldroyd was born on June 2, 1962, in Bury, Lancashire, England. She has two younger brothers.
- Parents : Her father was a clergyman who died in 2015 at the age of eighty-five.
- She attended an all-girls school while growing up, and then went on to Oxford High School, followed by a degree from Cambridge University.
- In 1998, Eleanor married for the second time. Her choice was a fellow sports journalist and colleague Nick Mullins. The coupled lived in Barnes, in the south-west area of London.
- Eleanor has two daughters with Nick Mullins: Erin and Rosalie.
- Nick and Eleanor divorced in 2007 and she has not remarried since. She continues to reside in London, where she moved to in 1988, with her two daughters.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- Eleanor started her professional career in sports journalism with jobs in local radio during the 1980s.
- In 1991, Eleanor joined the ranks of the BBC with a job at BBC Radio Sport. In 1992, Eleanor reported from her very first Olympic Games in Barcelona. Since then she has also attended the Olympic Games of Lillehammer in 1994, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, London in 2012, Sochi in 2014, and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
- Eleanor has presented for Radio 5 and 5 Live.
- In 1993, she started hosting afternoon sports shows.
- She stood in for host Ian Payne on Sports Report in 1995, which made her the first female presenter in the show’s history.
- Eleanor frequently appears as a commentator on the 5 Live show Fighting Talk. She has also hosted 5 Live Sport’s evening show, the Friday Sports Panel, and Saturday Breakfast.
- Eleanor has a great deal of expertise and knowledge in various sports. Although she usually focuses on cricket and football, she has also covered the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Eleanor has received many awards for her illustrious career, amongst them the Sports Journalists’ Association Broadcast Presenter of the Year accolade in both, 2014 and 2016.
- She also covered the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, leading the sports coverage for the event.
- Eleanor’s brothers were passionate supporters of the Birmingham City football team while she was growing up, but once she moved to London she became a lifelong supporter of Arsenal.
- Eleanor credits her father’s love for cricket with inspiring her to learn more about the sport when she was young, despite initially finding it quite boring. Her father took his time in explaining the game to her, and Eleanor quickly became very invested in the world of cricket.
- Eleanor is one of the most important trailblazing women in the world of sports journalism.