Janine Machin BBC Salary, Family, Baby, Married, Age, Partner, Wiki, Diet

Personal Details Summary
Name	Janine Machin
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	24th February 1978. As of 2025, she is around 47 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Dating / Partner / Boyfriend	Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids	1
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	White
Nationality	British
Where does Janine Machin live?	Her hometown is Cambridge, where she is a presenter on radio and television.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

A woman with the zodiac sign Pisces by birth, Janine Machin is an award-winning British photo-journalist, radio and TV presenter.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

Janine was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, on 24th February 1978.
She got married at the age of 34 and in late 2016 gave birth to a son named Jacob.
She used to call her grandmother „Ludo Queen‟ as she always defeated her in the game of Ludo.
Education : She did her schooling from Newcastle High School. Her favourite subject in school was biology – She says of being fascinated by the complexity of body structure. Her least favourite subject was Physical Education, especially in winter.
Later, she went on to attend the prestigious Oxford University, from where she graduated in the year 2000.

TV Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Janine’s first job was at Staffordshire & Cheshire in 1999 as the hostess of the breakfast show on BBC “Radio Stoke”. Interestingly, she got the job when she was answering phones on the station’s lunchtime programme. The industry quickly recognized her innate talent & she was soon presented with her own afternoon radio show.
After that, she joined the radio station’s breakfast show as its solo host. With her as host, the show’s ratings skyrocketed & reportedly was the highest in its 40 years of broadcasting.
In 2002, she was joined by Kevin Fernihough on the breakfast show, but after a couple of years, he departed. In 2004, Kevin joined BBC Radio Northampton. Once again, Machin was left as the solo host.
In 2007, she joined BBC Look East in their Cambridge office as the anchor and reporter for its “Close Up” service.
In December 2022, Janine expressed her sadness on social media regarding the termination of the BBC’s regional TV news programmes. The Cambridge office staff, decided not to broadcast their scheduled programs due to the emotional impact of expected redundancies. The decision to downsize was part of the BBC’s plan to save £285 million and move money from broadcast news to digital services.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

Machin checks her Facebook only once a year!
She is related to the famous Bill Shankly, one of Britain’s most successful & respected football managers. During his 15 years at Liverpool FC, they won three leagues, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup, before his retirement after winning the 1974 FA Cup Final.
When asked in an interview “If she could know the truth behind one unsolved mystery, what would be it?”, she chose the mystery behind the disappearance of Flight MH370, the Malaysian airline that went missing in March 2014 & has not been found ever since. It was even profound for her because she herself covered the story and was still emotionally reeling from the incident.
She said if she weren’t a broadcaster, she would have tried many professions before settling on being a wedding planner.
Among the things, Janine finds attractive in people are loyalty, as well as a sense of humour. While she must be quite serious on screen, she loves to laugh quite a bit in general!

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.
Janine Machin Weight Loss : Back in 2017, she had gained some weight after her pregnancy. She tweeted that she intended to shed the extra kilos soon.

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