Jan Leeming
Jan Leeming was born on 5 January 1942 in Kent.
The jungle in I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here may not have been such a shock to Jan Leeming's system. The Guardian reported:
"Jan Leeming ... who now lives part of the year in Cape Town, has joined a big-cat conservation project in South Africa, and has trained to become a qualified cheetah handler, enabling her to join the animals in their cages and bottle feed orphaned cubs."
Additionally, along with Claire King, Brooke Kinsella and others, Jan Leeming took part in the BBC's reality show Safari School.
Jan Leeming presented the news on the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s. She was twice voted newsreader of the year.
In 1982, Jan Leeming hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, and in 2006 she was on the jury to decide the United Kingdom entry for the contest.
In the run up to I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2006, a BBC blog reflected on the contrasting descriptions of Jan Leeming:
"The Mail demurely describes Jan Leeming as 'the news headliner', while the Sun pitches in with 'posh bird who used to present the news'."
In a different context, that of fronting ads selling Banner homes, The Telegraph came up with: "Leeming is sultry in a suburban, headmistressy way."
Jan Leeming has been married four times and has one child.
Jan Leeming is a patron of the charity Fight For Sight.
Jan Leeming was the seventh celebrity voted off I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in 2006.
Together with Johndeep More and Chris Crosby, Jan Leeming was cast in the Christmas panto in 2007, Cinderella, at the Theatre Royal in Windsor.