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56 years old (Born on December 12, 1968)

British TV presenter.

She`s a fully-qualified Scuba diver. Although she was born in London, her family moved to Berkshire when she was just nine months old, and she grew up in an old Victorian farmhouse next to a working farm. (tv.com) She first met her husband when she was aged just 16. When she appeared as the subject of an episode of the BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are?, she discovered that, during the Second World War, her paternal grandfather had been a distinguished test pilot, while her maternal grandfather had been involved in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III. (tv.com) Her wedding ring originally belonged to her great-grandmother.

In October 2009, she became the President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). (tv.com)

Although she`s had a piercing in the upper cartilage of her left ear since her teens, she didn`t get her earlobes pierced until the day after her 40th birthday.

Having finally had her ears pierced in 2008 for her 40th birthday, she celebrated her 41st birthday in 2009 by having her belly-button pierced. (tv.com)

After leaving school, she had a number of different jobs, including being a magician`s assistant - she was the girl who used to get sawed in half.

She`s suffered from Malaria twice. When she was 31, she caught the potentially-fatal Cerebral Malaria during a visit to Zanzibar and had to spend a week recovering in hospital. Two years later, she caught it again on a trip to Ghana. (tv.com)

Since she`s had her ears pierced, she`s rarely seen without a pair of her favorite medium-sized gold hoop earrings.