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Presenter Profiles - Jo Healey
Why did I become a journalist?

Well, I just fancied reading the news on telly.

Someone told me I'd better become a journalist then...

... so I did.

In my final year at university, I blagged my way into a newspaper editor's office and convinced him to take me on.
Jo Healey
Jo started as a newspaper reporter

I was lucky, I'd chosen a career which was right up my street... though I didn't know it at the time.

On my first-ever story I was despatched to interview miners on the picket line, it was during the 1984 miners' strike.

I was reporting in radio when East Midlands Today started up.

Jo in the newsroom
Jo loves meeting people, so reporting is one of her favourite parts of the job

My manager said I couldn't apply as I hadn't been in my post for a year.

I said don't be ridiculous, no one's life will be worth living if you don't let me go. So he did. And I haven't looked back.

I reported the first-ever lead story on EMT.

I feel privileged to be allowed into people's lives to film their absolute highs or their desperate lows.

You are often there when it matters.

I'm lucky I love my job and I've also been able to combine it with being a very hands-on mum!

I've never wanted to work in London which is lucky: a network producer wrote to me recently clamouring for more of my work.

I was pleased, then I noticed which programme he was writing from.

It was Auntie's Bloomers!

If you want to contact me: send an e-mail to jo.healey@bbc.co.uk

Top Ten List

1. Best Song Ever: Impossible to say, I love music so much.

2. Best TV Show Ever: Costume dramas and Coronation Street.

3. Best personal TV moment: One of them was reporting Emma Humphreys walking free from Appeal Court.

4. Best place in England: Holkham beach, Norfolk

5. Favourite/ worst food: Love healthy, fresh organic tasty food... loathe dodgy stodgy food.

6. Favourite/ worst drink: Love wine, love tea..but I'm alcohol and caffeine free at the moment!

7. Favourite/ worst animal: Love all animals especially dogs (and Pickles the hamster), dislike spiders!

8. Favourite name for boy/ girl: Andrew, Rob/ Francesca and Anna.

9. Favourite sport/ least favourite sport: Love swimming, dislike running.

10. Favourite politician/ historical figure: William Shakespeare

Where I grew up: Cheshire

What I'd love to do if I didn't have to work for a living: Spend more time on my own, more time with my girls, more time in the gym and more time being pampered... write books, read and make films.

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