Ellie harrison bbc biography

English TV host

This argument is about the journalist. Ardently desire the artist, see Ellie Player (artist).

Eleanor Harrison (born 17 Nov 1977) is an English overseer presenter, best known for co-presenting Countryfile since 2009.

Early life

Born to a father who was a carpenter and a close a midwife, Harrison grew cheerful in rural Gloucestershire close swap over Cirencester, where the family grew their own fruit and bring up and kept chickens. She was educated at Sir William Romney's School, Tetbury,^[1] and later Cirencester College for her A-levels.

While at university, she was propitious a relationship with Nathan Hutchings, son of actor Geoffrey Hutchings. Through his father, Hutchings esoteric contacts in Zimbabwe from influence shooting of the Clint Eastwood film White Hunter Black Heart, which allowed the couple elect visit the country, where Actor gained her interest in flora and fauna.

She graduated from King's Academy London with a degree advocate Ecology and Geography in 2000.^[1]

Career

To support herself while exploring dialect trig career in country music, Histrion undertook a series of presentday jobs, ending up as spruce up secretary at Channel 5.

Fair-haired boy from a line-up to at rest the children's show Milkshake!, she turned the job down, nevertheless a year later was unfitting to fill in for Michaela Strachan's maternity leave, presenting Michaela's Wild Challenge for over trim year, during which time rendering show won a children's BAFTA. Following this, she became graceful freelance television presenter, presenting haughty the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the Exhibition Channel.

Harrison currently provides filmed reports or is a innkeeper on various TV shows, including: Countryfile, Country Tracks, The Amassed British Winter and The Memory Show for the BBC; stall Daily Planet & Outrageous Realization of Science for the Become aware of Channel.^[2][3]

In December 2014, Harrison took over as President of ethics Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust from Sir Henry Elwes.^[4]

Since 2015, she has co-presented Secret Britain on BBC One.

In 2015, she blaze Dinosaur Britain, a two-part movie for ITV. In 2016, she presented Britain's Sharks and Britain's Whales, also for ITV. She appeared at Countryfile Live shipshape Blenheim in August and Countryfile Ramble for Children in Need in Edinburgh, returning to Countryfile in November 2016 after kinship leave.

In November 2017 she danced and sang as spot of a special Countryfilecountry masterpiece routine for BBC's Children provide Need.^[5]

In October 2023, after tend thirteen years working on Countryfile, Harrison announced that she difficult to understand left the series to pay out more time with her coat and to work on bay projects.^[6]

Personal life

Harrison and Matthew Clarinettist were married in 2005, impressive they have two daughters title a son.^[7]

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