Rebecca Mantin (born 18 October 1980 in

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) is an English TV presenter and weather presenter and forecaster for

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.ITV National Weather Team

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, 28 June 2020

Early life

Born to Wendy and Richard Mantin, Mantin grew up in the south Norfolk village of

Saxlingham Nethergate Saxlingham Nethergate is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, about south of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of and the 2001 Census recorded a population of 676 in 276 households, the population increasing to 688 at the 2011 ...

and attended

Norwich High School for Girls Norwich High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18 in Norwich, England. The school was founded in 1875 by the Girls’ Public Day School Company (now the Girls' Day School Trust), which aimed to establish schools ...

and the Sixth Form at

Norwich School Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a selective English independent day school in the close of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. Among the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, it has a traceable history to 1096 as a ...

Career

Mantin started her media career writing for the Eastern Daily Press and appearing on the commercial radio station

Broadland 102 Radio Broadland (later Heart Norwich) was an Independent Local Radio station for Norfolk and North Suffolk, including Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, until early 2009. The station, now part of the national Heart Network, is owned and operat ...

. She then moved to

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, initially as a fashion presenter for lunchtime magazine show ''Home Malone'' before taking meteorological training to become the ''

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'' lead weather presenter, later presenting and reporting on regional programmes including the consumer show ''Late Night Checkout'' and animal rescue series 'Animal Tales'. Mantin then started to appear on the national channels

, Channel 5 and

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as a reporter. From 25 February 2005 she ceased duties with ''ITV News Anglia'' and joined ITV Weather on a permanent basis. She co-presented ITV's '' This Morning Summer'' with Denise van Outen and Richard Bacon in summer 2005 to celebrate 50 years of

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. Mantin has appeared as a weather presenter on '' Good Morning Britain'' on

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. On 2 April 2019 she presented the factual programme ''Inside Britain's Storms'' on ITV.

Personal life

Mantin married former yachtsman turned professional rugby coach Jack Heald in

Walberswick Walberswick is a village and civil parish on the Suffolk coast in England. It is at the mouth of the River Blyth on the south side of the river. The town of Southwold lies to the north of the river and is the nearest town to Walberswick, around ...

on 12 December 2009. She has four children. Mantin sustained a

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and memory loss in a surfing accident on 7 June 2007 in

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. She returned to full-time presenting early in 2008.

References

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