Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Portia Oduba is an English television researcher. She is well recognized as the wife of Ore Oduba, Season 14 winner of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Portia Oduba (maiden name Portia Culmer) was born on November 13, 1989, in Kent County, England.
- Born to parents, Sophie Culmer (mother) and Nick Culmer (father), she is oldest of their three children. She has a little sister named Oona and a little brother named Dexter.
- Portia’s dad Nick used to be the lead singer of punk band The Anti-Nowhere League, but now he is a property developer.
- In 2015, Portia married her long-time partner, TV presenter Ore Oduba, at the historic Penshurst Place.
- The couple first met at an event at Loughborough University where Ore had earned his degree.
- In January 2018, they welcomed their first child, a son named Roman. In October 2021, the couple welcomed their second child together – a baby daughter named Genie.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- As a young student at Kent College, Portia was a budding athlete.
- In the 2003 Kent Schools Athletics Trophy Competitions, she helped her school place first by earning the top spots in the track and field events long jump and discus. The same year, she was also on the school’s U13 team that won the Kent Schools Netball Championship.
- A dormant LinkedIn account dating back to 2011 reveals that Portia attended the University of Leeds. However, there are no details on what she studied or whether she was involved in any extracurricular activities.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- In 2011, Portia started her career in the TV industry as a junior researcher for the children’s channel CBeebies on the BBC network.
- In 2012, she worked as a production assistant on the first season of the channel’s The Rhyme Rocket.
- For the next several years, Portia remained with BBC as a TV researcher on shows like Blue Peter and A Question of Sport. She stopped working in 2017 in preparation for her baby boy.
- Now a full-time mom, Oduba regularly documents her experiences to her 40,000+ followers on Instagram. She shares things like her preferred baby products, tips on feeding, and advice for first-time parents.
Fun Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Portia’s dad is the lead singer (known as “Animal”) of the 80s punk rock band Anti-Nowhere League. Although he still occasionally performs with the band, he has tamed his old wild ways. He had quite an amazing journey – Quit school at 16-years-old and joined the biker gang The Chosen Few; spent two years in prison; lived “off the grid” in the Canadian wilderness to avoid a gang conflict; got kicked out of British music program “Top of Pops” for bringing an axe into the studio!
- Portia’s Mom, Sophie, is famous in her own right. She also attended Kent College, where she was the classmate of the Countess of Wessex, Sophie Rhys-Jones.
- Although Penshurst Place is world-renowned (the property once belonged to King Henry VIII), pictures from Portia and Ore’s big day are used on the website to promote their wedding accommodations.
- Her son Baby Roman is regularly featured on both parents’ social media sites. However, there are no pictures that show his full face. When asked why this was the case, Portia explained it was a choice they made as parents, and that he could decide what to post when he was old enough.
- It is not uncommon for her to ring newspapers and magazines when they write inaccurate information about her husband, Jamie.