Jovana Janković

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Jovana Janković Јована Јанковић

Born	April 25, 1981 (1981-04-25) (age 27) Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Residence	Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality	Serbian

Jovana Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јована Јанковић) (born April 25, 1981 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian television personality and host described as the trade mark of Radio Television of Serbia, the national broadcaster of the country. Together with Željko Joksimović, she was the host of the 53rd edition of Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade.

[edit] Career

Jovana Janković started her early television career at the age of 19. While completing university Janković received a job offer at BKTV. She started off as an entertainment reporter working for shows “Blockbuster” and “Trailer” both related to the cinema world. Noticing her talents at hosting the director of Serbia’s national television RTS, Aleksandar Tijanić, proposed for Jovana to move to the national broadcaster giving her title of anchor woman of the “Morning Programme” aired weekdays from 6am to 9am. Because of her age Janković has received the nickname of “Tijanić’s baby” as she is one of the youngest working at the network next to her co-host.^[1] She still hosts the morning programme and has become the corporate face of the network.

Since moving to RTS and the morning programme Jovana has gained a fan base of viewers and has appeared on the covers of Serbian magazines such as “Gloria”, "Svet" and “TV Revija”. Her height is billed as 1.60cm but she appeared taller in high heels at Eurovision 2008 held at Belgrade.

Jovana Janković hosted the draw for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals in the Belgrade city hall. On March 4, 2008, it was announced that together with Željko Joksimović, Jovana would co-host the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia which was held from 20 – 24 May 2008 in the Belgrade Arena.^[2]