| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Amanda Houston |
| Date of Birth / Birthday / Age / How old is Amanda Houston? | April 8, 1980. As of 2025, she is around 45 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Boyfriend / Partner / Dating | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | None |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | British |
| Is Amanda Houston related to Sian Lloyd? | Despite extensive searches on Google, we couldn’t come up with any conclusive results. |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Amanda Houston is a British investigative & weather journalist. Currently, she is working as a weather presenter for ITV.
- Alongside her broadcasting work, Amanda shares her passion for wellbeing as a retreat facilitator, mentor, and voiceover artist. She is also a qualified yoga and mindfulness teacher who leads wellness retreats.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Amanda Houston is originally from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, however, she moved to Newcastle upon Tyne as a teenager.
- She was a strong independent teenager, whose curiosity and inquisitive nature appeared to her parents as attitude.
- As such, they had issues while she was growing up. She has said that her becoming a mature adult was the best thing to ever happen to her relationship with her parents.
- While still in her teens, Amanda secured work as an editorial assistant for the Evening Chronicle newspaper for the area.
- She also worked odd jobs around the area, particularly in club promotion, radio presenting and newspaper sales.
Amanda Houston Husband and Marriage :
- Amanda is married to her high school sweetheart. She has two stepsons, who were born in 1999 and 2001.
- The couple celebrated 10 years of strong marriage in 2011, though she keeps her husband’s identity private.
- Her favourite activity with her husband is to travel, and she lists Bali and Portugal as her favourite destinations.
- In April 2025, Amanda marked her 45th birthday with Instagram posts expressing gratitude for a special celebration alongside her husband, whom she affectionately calls “Aries baby.”
Amanda Houston Salary, Career and Net Worth :
- Houston began her career as an editorial assistant at Trinity Mirror in 1999, before moving to Metro as a Marketing and Sales Executive from 2000 to 2002. Alongside this, she freelanced as a journalist for Metro Newspaper and worked as a DJ, radio presenter, and in club promotion.
- In September of 2004, Amanda became the business development manager for ITV Tyne Tees.
- In August of 2008, she made the move from Tyne Tees to ITV’s Anglia programme and began working as their weather presenter.
- In October of 2013, she moved on to presenting the weather for various other ITV regions, and began having her work aired in Wales and the Channel Islands as well as the UK.
- Currently, she is working as the front reporter for ITV weather forecasts, having landed the role in April 2014. She covers a mix of ITV regional and national weather forecasts.
- In 2020, she even completed a Postgraduate Degree in Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health at King’s College London, adding a new layer to her professional expertise.
- In 2024, Houston celebrated 20 years with ITV, having first joined in September 2004.
Trivia, Body and Amanda Houston Eye Problem :
- Before she landed her first role in the TV industry, Amanda had almost decided to move to Australia. At the time of receiving confirmation of her role with ITV Tyne Tees, she had already sold most of her possessions and bought a one-way ticket to Sydney, Australia. With just 3 days’ to go, she changed her plans and began working for ITV Tyne Tees full time.
- She has drawn some criticism due to having a lazy eye, however, she has said that people should focus on the issues she is presenting, rather than her appearance.
- How tall is Amanda Houston Height : 162 cm
Work with House Music and Yoga :
- Although she works in the broadcast journalism industry, Amanda was initially planning to follow a career in music. A big fan of house music, she creates her own mixes, a process she describes as being soulful.
- All of her work is released independently through the service MixCloud.
- She initially took up yoga to relax, but after having great success with it – she began teaching a class on the weekends in her local neighbourhood. A few years back, she was looking to certify herself in Pilates as well.
- Since April 2020, Amanda has been a Wellness Host for ITV, leading “Mindful Monday” sessions for her colleagues to help manage stress and encourage healthier lifestyles. She also creates yoga content, including her popular YouTube video “Wake Up – 12 Minute Yoga Practice”.
I like Amanda and she is wasted on being a weather girl…she is so professional and would be great at presenting the main news. She is a classy northerner who in my opinion should be given the chance.
I like Amanda Houston. She is much better than Becky Mantin
Amanda has a silky clear voice and is very easy on the eye. Her weather reporting is clear and precise. She is a pleasant watch!
Well done Roger, well done!!!
Amanda is my middle of 3 younger sistas name and houston is in Texas and of course whitneys surname is the same.