Laura Jackson (presenter)
{{Short description|English television presenter (born 1986)}}
{{About|the English television broadcaster and co-founder of homeware brand Glassette|other people named Laura Jackson|Laura Jackson (disambiguation){{!}}Laura Jackson}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Laura Jackson
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| birth_name = Laura Emma Jackson
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|4|30|df=y}}{{cite web |title=Laura Emma JACKSON - Personal Appointments |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/UyK2vGehjKmcwjOZQzU0AgMIRA0/appointments |publisher=Companies House |access-date=29 December 2019 |language=en}}
| birth_place = Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, EnglandEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007
| occupation = Television presenter, food columnist
| spouse = {{marriage|Jonathan Gorrigan|2017}}
| children = 3
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Laura Emma Jackson (born 30 April 1986) is a TV broadcaster and co-founder of homeware brand Glassette.{{cite news |last1=Conlon |first1=Scarlett |title=Can Laura Jackson breathe fresh life into Saturday night TV? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/apr/06/can-laura-jackson-breathe-fresh-life-into-saturday-night-tv |access-date=29 December 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=6 April 2018}} She presented the quiz shows Ready or Not on BBC One and Take Me Out: The Gossip on ITV2.{{cite news |last1=Hammond |first1=Natalie |title=Laura Jackson, the style icon you don't know |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/laura-jackson-the-style-icon-you-dont-know-zxngm22ng |access-date=29 December 2019 |work=The Times |date=6 February 2019 |language=en}}
Biography
Jackson was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and raised in Kirkburton. She has four siblings.{{cite news |last1=Alexander |first1=Ella |title=Meet Laura Jackson: A New Genre Of It-Girl |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/laura-jackson-presenter-interview-profile |access-date=29 December 2019 |work=British Vogue |date=16 January 2014}} She was educated at Shelley College.{{cite journal |title=Style Star: Laura Jackson |url=https://www.livingnorth.com/yorkshire/people-places/style-star |access-date=29 December 2019 |journal=Living North |date=October 2015}}{{cite news |last1=Stelfox |first1=Hilarie |title=Former Shelley College student Laura Jackson stars in new BBC game show |url=https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/ready-not-here-comes-former-14494977 |access-date=29 December 2019 |work=Huddersfield Examiner |date=8 April 2018}}
Jackson was spotted while working as a receptionist at Shoreditch House, a members club and hotel in London. She began her career presenting the T4 music show Freshly Squeezed alongside Nick Grimshaw, and went on to present on Take Me Out: The Gossip on ITV2, This Morning on ITV, The Clothes Show on BBC One and Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4. In 2018, she hosted Ready or Not on BBC One.
She ran an East London supper club, Jackson&Levine, with Alice Levine. Jackson and Levine are food columnists for Elle, Marie Claire and Company magazine,{{cite web|title=Laura & Alice #Food Column|url=http://www.company.co.uk/magazine-hq/laura-and-alice-foodclub-april-2014?click=main_sr|website=Company|access-date=31 August 2014}} and have published a cookbook.{{cite news |last1=Bryant |first1=Amy |title=Jackson & Levine: meet the pair behind the coolest supperclub in town |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/recipes/0/jackson--levine-meet-the-pair-behind-the-coolest-supperclub-in-t/ |access-date=29 December 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=12 November 2019}} They also have a homeware line with Habitat.
Jackson married photographer Jonathan Gorrigan in 2017.{{cite magazine |last1=de Klerk |first1=Amy |title=Laura Jackson wears Rejina Pyo for her beautiful beach wedding |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/bazaar-brides/a43995/laura-jackson-wedding/ |access-date=29 December 2019 |magazine=Harper's Bazaar |date=26 September 2017}} They had their first child, a daughter named Sidney Frances, in May 2019.{{cite news |title=Take Me Out: The Gossip host Laura Jackson announces birth of first child with intimate Instagram pictures |url=https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/news/laura-jackson-announces-birth-of-first-child/ |access-date=29 December 2019 |work=Entertainment Daily UK |date=7 May 2019}}
In 2021, Jackson went onto start her homeware brand Glassette which she co-founded with Daniel Crow.
Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Laura |last2= Levine |first2=Alice |author-link2= Alice Levine |date=2017 |title=Round to Ours: Setting the Mood and Cooking the Food |publisher=Quadrille Publishing |pages=272 |isbn= 978-1-84949-959-0}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|nm5947645}}
- {{instagram|iamlaurajackson}}
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Category:People from Kirkburton
Category:English television presenters
Category:English cookbook writers
Category:English women food writers
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:Television personalities from West Yorkshire
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