Ginny Buckley

Buckley was born and brought up in Rochdale, England,[4] before moving to Australia at the age of 18.

She started her career early, appearing regularly from the age of 12 for BBC local radio in Manchester, where she presented a children's radio programme. At the age of 12 she appeared on the BBC children's programme Multi-Coloured Swap Shop,[5] where she interviewed Noel Edmonds, David Bellamy and the pop group Sad Café.[6]

Buckley also worked as an actress appearing in numerous plays for BBC Radio and studied Performance Arts and Media Studies at Oldham's Grange Arts Centre.

At the age of 18, Buckley moved to Australia; she lived in Sydney and worked for several years in commercial radio.[5] She worked as a junior in the newsroom at 2UW and later at Triple M, first in the news room and then as a producer for the show Club Veg.

She went on to beat 600 other applicants to present a new children's television programme for the Nine Network in Australia and went on to present a children's news programme C'mon Kids, along with Hey, Hey, It's Saturday, in which she worked with Jason Donovan.

In 1991, after returning to England, Ginny was a co-presenter with Ross King on the BBC TV Children's game show "The Wetter The Better" recorded at the Sandcastle Leisure Centre in Blackpool. She worked for Granada Television in Manchester, where she was a reporter on the regional news programme Granada Tonight.[7] She also presented ITV's Bodycheck[7] and Taste for Travel.

In 2001, Buckley joined the BBC One travel programme Holiday first as a reporter and later as the main anchor, following on from Craig Doyle.[8] She left in 2005 when she was replaced by Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen.[1] She also presented the BBC One spin-off programme Holiday 10 Best.

Buckley returned to her news background in 2005 when she joined Sky News[1][7] (2005–07), anchoring their afternoon output. In a memorable blooper during her time at Sky, she mistakenly introduced playwright Harold Pinter as "Howard Pintus", saying that he was joining her in the studio, then correcting herself to announce that he had died. He had in fact won the Nobel Prize in Literature.[9]

Buckley has also presented a BBC Two documentary on the environmental impact of travel, entitled Should I Really Give Up Flying[10] and has also presented the flagship ITV1 Current Affairs programme Tonight.[11]

In June 2010, she co-hosted Crimewatch Roadshow on BBC One alongside Rav Wilding.[4]

As of August 2014, she is now co-presenter of the internet car review site, Carbuyer and appears in weekly car review videos for Carbuyer's YouTube channel alongside boyfriend, journalist and presenter, James Batchelor.

In 2014 she joined the reporting team for the consumer programme Watchdog on BBC One[12] and in 2015 became one of the presenters on the BBC's Escape to the Country.[13]

Buckley made her television acting debut in 2008, playing a newsreader on The Bill.

Buckley went on to write regularly about cars and transport for many national newspapers and magazines and became the first female motoring editor of a national newspaper when she took on the role at the News of the World.[7][14]

In January 2015 Buckley was announced as the new Motoring Editor for Good Housekeeping magazine in the UK.[15]

Buckley lives in The Chilterns and is a mother of one.[4] She is a supporter of Manchester United, and is a trustee of the club's charity, the Manchester United Foundation.[16]

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• GINNY BUCKLEY Take 3 Management Agent Website
• Ginny Buckley - Biography JLA - Further public speaking
• Manchester United Foundation
• Rochdale Observer