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Jean Johansson Wiki, Parents, Nationality, Heritage, Wedding, Age

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Personal Information Summary
Name Jean Johansson
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB November 15, 1981. As of 2024, she is around 43 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids 1
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race Mixed
Nationality Scottish-Kenyan
Is Alex Scott related to Jean Johansson? Jean Johansson looks a lot like Alex Scott, an English sports presenter, and former football player. However, they don’t seem to be related.
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

  • Jean Johansson is a Scottish and Kenyan TV presenter and host.
  • She is also a reporter for BBC One’s Animal Park, as well as a columnist for The Sunday Mail.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

  • Jean Johansson (maiden name Jean Anderson) was born on November 15, 1981, in Kenya, East Africa, to parents John Anderson (father), a now-retired English teacher, and Winnie Anderson (mother), a housewife.
  • Jean is the second youngest of seven siblings. Her parents met while they were both in Kenya, and then they relocated with their family to Port Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s.
  • After initially living in Port Glasgow, Jean mostly grew up in Glasgow City.
  • She met the man who would become her husband, Finnish football player Jonatan Johansson when she was 17. Jean was finishing high school and had a part-time job at a golf course in Langbank, Renfrewshire. She was initially not considering anything long-term, planning on travelling after finishing school, but the couple has been together for over two decades.
  • Jean married Jonatan in 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. Together they have a son, Junior Johansson, born on December 6, 2010. Jean’s mother and father help her with babysitting Junior while she is working abroad.
  • Jean’s husband Jonatan has now retired from playing football, and after living in London for many years, as well as travelling to different cities where Jonatan worked, the family now resides once more around Glasgow, near Wemyss Bay in Inverclyde.
  • She has studied Broadcast Journalism at university.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

  • Jean got a modelling job way early in her life, when she was only fifteen years old.
  • When she was eighteen, she was picked as the presenter of a children’s tv show called UKool which aired on CBBC, BBC’s children-oriented channel.
  • After that, she started working as a weather forecaster for STV, during which she trained a the Meteorological Office in London to better understand the job.
  • After finishing her post-graduate diploma, Jean left her forecasting job and started working as a reporter for The One Show on BBC One.
  • She’s also a presenter for the BBC’s Animal Park, which focuses on the daily life of the Longleat Safari park in Wiltshire.
  • From November 2018, she also started working as a presenter on Channel 4’s A Place in the Sun as their second Scottish presenter alongside Danni Menzies.
  • Jean had originally auditioned for the A Place in the Sun job two years earlier (in 2016), but Danni had beaten her to secure the role. In 2018, however, she auditioned and won the presenter role after completing three days of screen tests.

Fun Facts, Height and Trivia :

  • Jean frequently writes opinion column pieces for Scotland’s weekend newspaper The Sunday Mail.
  • She is also a brand ambassador for the Postcode Lottery.
  • In 2018, Jean starred in the British edition of Celebrity Masterchef, one of the only two reality shows she said she’d ever considered appearing on (the other one being Mastermind).
  • She has presented for The Disney Channel and has also hosted the Disney Channel Awards at the London Arena.
  • Jean loves indulging her passions for musical theatre, reading, and jogging.
  • In 2019, Johansson spent her time filming in Southern Spain for A Place in the Sun. She also travelled to Hungary with one of her best friends, actor Gary Lamont.
  • Jean has spent a lot of time holidaying in Spain over the years and is well-acquainted with a lot of the local hotspots. A big fan of Spain, she has travelled to a many places in Spain like Malaga, Esta Ponsa, and Marbella.

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