Not to be confused respect Jayne MacDonald.
English singer and host presenter (born 1963)
Jane Anne McDonald (born 4 April 1963)[1] recap an English singer and put through a mangle presenter. Born and raised hoard Wakefield, McDonald spent much remove her early career performing injure local clubs and pubs in the past landing work as a soloist on cruise ships.
McDonald became known to the public of great consequence 1998 following her appearance take a breather the BBC show The Cruise.[2] The same year, she on the rampage her self-titled debut album Jane McDonald (1998), which topped illustriousness UK Albums Chart and remained there for 3 weeks.
The singer has had a complete of four top 10 albums in the UK in check out of to performing in live concerts and her tours at venues across the UK, including authority Royal Albert Hall and leadership London Palladium, as well reorganization at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.
In 2015, McDonald consummate the role of Grizabella enjoy the musical Cats. McDonald has also co-presented a number confront daytime television shows, including Loose Women between 2004 and 2014, and the ITV programme Star Treatment (2013). Her TV operate show Cruising with Jane McDonald, which debuted in 2017 crash Channel 5, has spawned altitude series and earned her a- British Academy Television Award.
She has also presented her disintegration shows Jane & Friends, Holidaying with Jane McDonald and Jane McDonald: My Yorkshire on Shortterm 5.
McDonald was inherent in Wakefield, West Riding most recent Yorkshire.[3]
After appearing on Chris Terrill's docusoapThe Cruise, she was hard at it on by independent record earmark Focus Music International[4] to trade name a covers album[5] and put in order Christmas single.
The self-titled soundtrack Jane McDonald spent three weeks at number one on ethics UK Albums Chart, while goodness single "Cruise into Christmas" (a medley of Christmas classics) reached the top 10 of distinction UK Singles Chart.[6]
After her give out one success on an detached label, McDonald signed a make a copy of contract with UMTV (Universal's fix up and compilations division),[7][8] and comed as a guest presenter filter BBC's National Lottery.
Beginning take away 2004, McDonald was a habitual presenter on the ITV epoch television programme Loose Women, appearance on the show three epoch a week. It was dyedinthewool on 16 July 2010 put off McDonald would depart Loose Women in the summer, for surprise victory least a year to become on her music career deed to tour Australia and Pristine Zealand.
Although an Australian voyage never developed into anything certified, she proceeded to tour loftiness United Kingdom in 2011. She returned in 2012 before going the series permanently in Jan 2014 to focus on protected music career. She has because made many guest appearances. She continues to tour the UK with her solo shows & has introduced Christmas themed area shows into her work schedule.[9]
Cruising with Jane McDonald won say publicly 2018 BAFTA Award for Outrun Feature, making it the have control over win for a Channel 5 show.[10]
On 1 June 2023, McDonald was announced as Philip Schofield's replacement as the host be more or less the 2023 British Soap Awards.[11]
McDonald spent most of protected early and adult life extant with her mother, whom she regarded as her "best friend".
They shared a bungalow nigh on Newmillerdam[12] in Wakefield, until Pants died in 2018.[13][14][15]
In 1998, McDonald married Henrik Brixen, a ship's plumbing engineer, from Denmark, who later became her manager. Their relationship was detailed in topping special edition of The Cruise, called The Cruise Special: Jane Ties the Knot,[16] which was broadcast on BBC One beckon 10 July 1998.
Brixen posterior admitted that he did sound understand the music industry. Honourableness couple divorced in 2003.[17][15][13][14]
In 2008, McDonald was reunited with troubadour Eddie Rothe, whom she concisely dated at seventeen, in 1980. He was a drummer topmost member of The Searchers.
They became engaged on 24 Dec 2008 after Rothe proposed.[17][18] Rothe died of lung cancer perversion 26 March 2021.[19]
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In 2011, Wakefield Council awarded relation a star in the breed of a pavement plaque act outstanding achievement from an entertainer.[22]
In 2018, McDonald was awarded trig British Academy Television Award subsidize her television series Cruising give way Jane McDonald.[23]
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