Lynda Bryans
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| Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
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| Occupation | Television presenter, journalist and producer |
| Spouse | Mike Nesbitt (married 1992 - present) |
| Children | 2 sons |
Lynda Bryans is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. She is currently a presenter and reporter for UTV Live. She is married to Mike Nesbitt, who until February 2006, co-presented UTV Live regularly with his wife.
Lynda began her broadcasting career at BBC Northern Ireland as a secretary in the Religious Affairs Department.[1] She went on to become a newsreader and reporter on BBC's Inside Ulster in 1988, as well as reading daytime news bulletins and briefly covering continuity shifts for BBC NI.
Lynda soon went on to network presenting, presenting and reporting for the BBC News and Current Affairs series Here and Now. She also co-presented with Rolf Harris on Animal Hospital in 1994 and reported for the Holiday programme until its axe in 2006.
As well as working together on UTV Live, Lynda and her husband Mike also presented Anglia Television's networked Sunday Morning series together from 1999 to 2001, and two series of UTV's home and garden series Home Sweet Home in 2004 and 2006.
Lynda's other television credits include News 40, ITV's recreation of news events from World War II in a contemporary style and Bethlehem Year Zero and Dateline Jerusalem, recreating the news events at the time of the birth and death of Jesus Christ. From 2001 2005, Lynda appeared regularly as a newscaster on the ITV News Channel at weekends, and in the autumn of 2004, Lynda also presented ITV1 London news magazine London Tonight.
November 2005 saw Lynda become part of the daytime line-up on UTV-owned radio station, U105, hosting the 12.00-15.00 slot, U105 Lunch. Lynda and her husband run their own production company, Take I Take II.
Lynda has two children.
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- ^ [1] Belfast Telegraph: "Mandi Millar's Q & A with UTV producer Sara Bell"; dated 26 January 2004, retrieved 10 January 2008
