Personal Details Summary | |
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Name | Helen Plint |
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | As of 2024, she seems to be in her late thirties. |
Wedding / Husband / Relationships / Marriage / Partner | No confirmed information is available. |
Children / No. of Kids | None |
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Mixed |
Nationality | Welsh |
Where is Helen Plint now? | ITV Weather’s Helen Plint is a Welsh journalist and weather presenter. |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Helen Plint is a Welsh journalist who also works as a weather presenter for the ITV Network.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Plint grew up with her parents – A Welsh father and an English mother, and as such, her childhood was split between two different languages & cultures.
- Her paternal grandmother taught her the Welsh language from a young age, and as a result, she has been bilingual for most of her life.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Plint attended The Cleeve School in Bishops Cleeve, Gloucester, on a scholarship for her high school years. She graduated from there in 2005, close to the top of her class.
- From there, she went on to attend the University of Leicester where she graduated in 2008 with a Combined Degree in English Literature and Sociology.
- Following this, she gained entry into the Cardiff University, where she graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism in 2010.
- While in university, she worked at both a radio station and a bar to support herself while studying, and she said both jobs suited her bubbly personality well.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- After graduating in 2010, Helen launched her career as a freelance journalist.
- From April to December of 2010, she was a freelance broadcast journalist for the BBC and often filled in on assignments for them when their normal reporters were unavailable.
- She moved onto a similar role with the network ITV and worked as one of their freelance reporters until September 2011.
- It was in September of 2011 that one broadcast, in particular, caught the eye of the producers within ITV. They decided to get her trained in meteorology and later promoted her to a full-time on-air journalist.
- She started delivering the weather reports for the network every weeknight.
- She has said that she never saw herself as a weather reporter but was grateful that ITV gave her the push into that area, as she now loves her job.
- For the role, Helen had to relocate to London. She can be regularly spotted on ITV or at various charity / public speaking events.
- Besides broadcasting, Helen is also an interior decorator and runs the Award-winning Interior Architecture & Design studio named Pen to Pad.
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- Helen describes herself as a ‘cheese enthusiast’ and has said that in another life, she would have been a chef.
- On some online platforms, her sexuality was speculated on numerous times, and she has hit back at people’s questions by stating that just because she is unmarried with short hair doesn’t make her a lesbian.
- She considers her colleague Becky Mantin to be her close friend and regularly refers to her as her work weather wife.
- She owns an apartment in London, as well as other property in the country, and refers to herself as a property junkie.
- Plint appears on Twitter (now called X) under the handle of @HelenPlint. Currently, she has over 3000 followers.
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Hello Hellen,
Congratulations on your forthcoming bundle of joy. Saw you on TV tonight you looked really well. All the best lovely lady!