Carol Kirkwood Net Worth 2023, Age, Husband, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Introduction

Carol Kirkwood is a Scottish weather presenter, trained by the Met Office, and employed by the BBC, on BBC Breakfast. In 2015, she participated in the 13th series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in 10th place.

Early life

Name	Carol Kirkwood
Net Worth	$5 million
Occupation	Television presenter
Age	60 years
Height	1.70m

Carol Kirkwood net worth

Carol MacKellaig on May 29, 1962 (age 60 years) in Morar, Inverness-shire, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Malcolm MacKellaig and was one of eight children of parents who were hoteliers in Morar. After attending Lochaber High School in Fort William, Kirkwood gained a BA in commerce from Napier College of Commerce and Technology (now Edinburgh Napier University) in Edinburgh.

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Career

Carol Kirkwood joined the BBC’s secretarial reserve in London after graduation. After a series of internal moves, she presented short slots on BBC Radio Scotland, and then BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4. Following her marriage to Jimmy Kirkwood, she left the BBC and subsequently worked in recruitment and then as a training consultant for a management consultancy in Cheshire.

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Kirkwood spent time on a now defunct cable TV channel, Windsor TV, in 1992 latterly called Wire TV, along with Sacha Baron Cohen. Kirkwood rejoined the BBC at the corporation’s Elstree Studios training department in 1993 as a freelance presenter, during which time she also presented a bi-monthly programme Talking Issues for HTV West.

She joined the new UK operation of The Weather Channel in 1996, but after it closed down she underwent training under the guidance of the BBC at the Met Office, before joining BBC News in April 1998 as a weather presenter. She has since appeared regularly across all of BBC Weather’s output on both radio and television, including BBC News, BBC World News, BBC News at Six and the live forecasts as part of the BBC’s coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

Carol Kirkwood is the main weather presenter on BBC Breakfast. The programme moved from London to MediaCityUK in Salford in 2013 but Kirkwood stayed in London presenting the weather on Breakfast via video link. She presented the BBC’s The Weather Show and is also a regular contributor and reporter for The One Show.

In 2011, Kirkwood co-presented the BBC One series The Great British Weather. She also presented the weather on BBC Radio 2’s The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. Kirkwood has appeared as a guest on CBBC’s show Hacker Time. In 2014, she appeared on BBC One panel show Would I Lie to You? .

In October 2018, Carol Kirkwood had a cameo appearance on Hollyoaks. In August 2015, it was announced that Kirkwood would be taking part in the thirteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, which began in September 2015. She was partnered with professional dancer Pasha Kovalev.

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Carol Kirkwood won the TRIC award for best TV Weather Presenter in 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2012–2017. She received an Honorary Fellowship from Princess Anne for “contributions to broadcasting” at Inverness College, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, on 17 November 2015.

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Husband

Carol Kirkwood was married to her first husband Jimmy Kirkwood, they had their wedding in 1990 until divorcing in 2008. Kirkwood announced her engagement to her new partner, live on BBC Breakfast from the Chelsea Flower Show, on 23 May 2022. As of March 2023, Carol Kirkwood and her new partner are still together but haven’t disclosed their wedding plans.