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Jill Alison Douglas (born December 1969), also known as Jill Douglas Hogg, is a Scottish sports presenter, who appears on
ITV,
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BT Sport
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. She grew up in
Bonchester Bridge
Bonchester Bridge ( Scots ''Binster Brig'') is a village in Roxburghshire, within the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, lying on the Rule Water, six miles away from the market town of Hawick.
History
The name of the town is said to be Roman ...
in the
Scottish Borders. She was educated at
Jedburgh Grammar School
Jedburgh Grammar School is a state secondary school in Jedburgh, Scotland, with around 440 pupils, 40 teaching staff, and 15 non-teaching staff.
History
While the first institution bearing the name Jedburgh Grammar School was founded in the 15t ...
and worked as a
journalist
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for the ''
Southern Reporter
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'' before studying for an
NCTJ in print journalism at
Napier College
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in
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of t ...
.
She originally fronted
Border TV's ''
Lookaround
ITV News ''Lookaround'' is a British television news service produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border and broadcasting to the “Border” region.
Overview
The news service is produced and broadcast from studios at The Watermark, Gateshead with rep ...
'' news magazine in 1993 before moving to present
BBC Scotland's
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
coverage on ''
Sportscene
''Sportscene'' is the name of a range of Scottish sports television programmes produced by BBC Scotland.
History
''Sportscenes predecessors were ''Sports Special from Scotland'' and ''Sportsreel'', which was broadcast every Saturday at around 5 ...
'' in 1997. In 1999, she joined
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It ...
as a sports news presenter, and was involved in both the rugby and
Golden League athletics coverage.
In 2003 she rejoined the BBC as one of the main presenters of rugby union,
cycling
Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from t ...
, and other events, such as the
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ...
.
She also sometimes appears on
BBC Radio 5 Live's ''
Fighting Talk
''Fighting Talk'' is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live during the English football season. The show is broadcast on Saturday mornings for an hour between 1100 and 1200 and is based on a similar format to the ESPN show '' Around ...
''. In 2013 Douglas presented the ITV4 coverage of the Haikou World Open and
Champion of Champions Snooker.
Douglas is a keen supporter of
Hawick Rugby Club.
She is married to former Scotland international
Carl Hogg. Douglas was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Borders College in 2014.
She was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours
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for services to sport and charity.
Charitable Work
In 2017 Douglas became the CEO of the "My Name'5 Doddie" Foundation, established by
Doddie Weir
George Wilson "Doddie" Weir (4 July 1970 – 26 November 2022) was a Scottish rugby union player who played as a lock. He made 61 international appearances for the Scotland national team and represented the British & Irish Lions.
With the ch ...
to raise funds for research into
Motor Neuron Disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...
.
References
External links
BBC Press Office profile(2003)
Borders College Honorary Fellows
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Scottish television presenters
Scottish women television presenters
Scottish radio presenters
Scottish women radio presenters
BBC people
British sports broadcasters
Cycling announcers
Living people
1969 births
Members of the Order of the British Empire