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Louise Mary Minchin (born September 1968) is a British television presenter, journalist and former

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within the

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. Beginning in 2012, Minchin was a regular

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on the

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programme ''

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'', co-hosting the show three days a week with Dan Walker. On 8 June 2021, Minchin announced live on air that she would be leaving ''BBC Breakfast'' "after the summer", after presenting the show for 20 years (at first as a stand-in host). Her final appearance on the show was on 15 September 2021. From 2009 until 2012, Minchin co-hosted '' Real Rescues'' alongside

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and Chris Hollins. She has guest-hosted ''

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'' a number of times since 2010.

Early life

Minchin spent her early life in

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, where her father was a Major in the

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of the

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. She was educated at

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, and has a degree in Spanish from the

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. She subsequently studied journalism at the

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Career

Minchin started her career in the Latin American section of the

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during a year in

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, the ''

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'' programme,

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and various local radio stations. In 2006, she toured the country in a converted bus meeting England fans as part of the

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coverage for

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. She started work for

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in 1998, and married David Minchin the same year. She presented many of the station's main programmes, including ''Drive'' and ''Breakfast''. Between September 2003 and April 2012, she was a regular

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presenter, initially working alongside

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from 7 pm to 10 pm. Minchin then presented the 2 pm to 5 pm slot, also with Sopel, sharing this shift with

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. She was also one of the main relief presenters for ''

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'' until April 2012. In 2006 and 2007, Minchin was a relief presenter on ''

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'' while

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covered for main anchor

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. After Williams returned, she continued to co-host the programme, and from May 2009 until April 2012 was the regular weekend presenter of the show. In December 2011, the BBC announced that Minchin would replace Williams as a main presenter of BBC Breakfast along with

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and

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the first edition was presented on Tuesday 10 April 2012. On Tuesday 8 June 2021, she announced live on ''BBC Breakfast'' that she would be stepping down from the role later that year to concentrate on other interests. Her final appearance on the show was on 15 September 2021. From 21 April 2008, Minchin presented a weekday programme called ''

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'' along with

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. The programme was shown at 9:15 am after BBC Breakfast on BBC One and ran for four weeks. The show returned for a second four-week run from 16 March 2009, and again in March 2010, highlighting both new cases and those previously featured with updates. Minchin and

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presented the Sunday morning show '' Sunday Life'' on BBC One in 2008. From 2 November 2009, Minchin presented four weeks of live broadcasts of '' Real Rescues'' along with

. Minchin also presented ''In the Know'', a BBC sports magazine programme on Saturday mornings on BBC One during the 2004 Athens Olympics alongside co-presenter

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. In April 2010, Minchin co-presented ''

'' for a week alongside Chris Hollins while regular hosts

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and

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were unavailable. She covered again when the show returned in July 2010 for two weeks alongside

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and one episode with

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. Minchin and

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presented the documentary series ''Crime and Punishment'', which began on BBC One on 12 March 2012. For a time from November 2012, Minchin was a co-presenter of Radio 5 Live's ''Drive'' programme with Peter Allen. She has worked as an occasional presenter of

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's daily consumer programme ''

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''. Minchin has played herself reading the news in three BBC series: spy drama '' Spooks'', crime drama ''

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'' and the ''

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'' mini-series ''

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''. In 2016, Minchin competed in ''

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'' on

, finishing second. In June 2021, BBC announced that Minchin was to leave ''BBC Breakfast'' after almost 20 years of working on the show. In November 2021, Minchin was announced as a contestant on the twenty-first series of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' and finished in seventh.

Awards

In March 2014, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the

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Personal life

Louise married David Minchin in 1998. The couple have two daughters and live in

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, Cheshire. She is an amateur triathlete, and qualified as a member of the 2015 Great Britain Age-Group Triathlon Team (45–49 age group). She competed in the standard distance event (1500 m swim, a 40 km bike ride and a 10 km run) at the

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in Chicago on 19 September 2015. She qualified for the team at the Dambuster Triathlon at

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on 15 June 2015. She went on to finish 71st out of 78 finishers at the ITU World Triathlon Championships. In 2019, Minchin talked about the

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, describing her experience of suffering

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es on the ''BBC Breakfast'' set that led to them lowering the temperature. A man who stalked both Minchin and one of her daughters pleaded guilty in October 2021 to sending intimidating messages via Instagram. The crimes occurred in July 2020 during the term of a suspended sentence for stalking

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singer

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Charity

Minchin is a supporter of

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, an international orphan charity providing homes and mothers for orphaned and abandoned children. She has also taken part in "Around the World in 80 days" for Children in Need. She is a supporter of the charity

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, which provides support for missing children, vulnerable adults and families left in limbo.

References

External links

Official website

BBC Breakfast Profile
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