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| Born | 17 May 1962 Oxford, England |
Jane Moore (born 17 May 1962) is a British journalist, author and television presenter.
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Moore was born in Oxford, England. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and her mother was a teacher. She went to primary school in Oxford, then went to the Worcester Grammar School for Girls (since 1983 the Worcester Sixth Form College) on Spetchley Road in Worcester, when her parents divorced. Since the divorce, she has not heard from her father. At school, she always wanted to be a journalist, but was told by her teachers that 'it was no job for a lady'. She studied journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education (now UWIC) in Cardiff, then trained at the Solihull News in 1981, moving to work full time at the Birmingham Mail and Birmingham Post.
Moore is a columnist for The Sun and writes regular articles for The Sunday Times. She has also been writing for the Hello! magazine.
Moore was a regular panellist in the early stages of Loose Women (1999–2002), she also guest presented This Morning, she left ITV in 2002.
Moore moved to the BBC and regularly contributes on Question Time, The Andrew Marr Show, This Week and BBC Breakfast.
Recently, she has gone into acting, with being one of the main guest panellists on a BBC Three show called Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, a comedic take on celebrity panel shows.
She started the consumer website, Youthejury in 2006.
She is the presenter of BBC Two series Wonderstuff, which began on 25 July 2011.
She married Gary Farrow, the former vice-president of communications at Sony Music Entertainment, in 2002. Elton John was the best man at their wedding. Her husband owns a PR agency called The Corporation Group. They live in Richmond with their three daughters.
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