Ginny Buckley
Ginny Buckley (born 1 April 1970 in Rochdale) is a British journalist, radio and television presenter. Early life. Buckley was born and brought up in Rochdale, England, before moving to Australia at the age of 18. She started her career early, appearing regularly from the age of 12 for BBC local radio in Manchester, where she presented a children's radio programme. At the age of 12 she appeared on the BBC children's programme "Multi-Coloured Swap Shop", where she interviewed Noel Edmonds, David Bellamy and the pop group Sad Café. Buckley also worked as an actress  appearing in numerous plays for BBC Radio and studied Performance Arts and Media Studies at Oldham's Grange Arts Centre. Broadcasting career. At the age of 18, Buckley moved to Australia; she lived in Sydney and worked for several years in commercial radio. She worked as a junior in the newsroom at 2UW and later at Triple M, first in the news room and then as a producer for the show "Club Veg". She went on to become a reporter for the children's television program "C'mon Kids" for the Nine Network in Australia during its 1990-1991 incarnation . In 1991, after returning to England, Ginny was a co-presenter with Ross King on the BBC TV Children's game show "The Wetter The Better" recorded at the Sandcastle Leisure Centre in Blackpool. She worked for Granada Television in Manchester, where she was a reporter on the regional news programme "Granada Tonight". She also presented ITV's "Bodycheck" and "Taste for Travel". In 2001, Buckley joined the BBC One travel programme "Holiday" first as a reporter and later as the main anchor, following on from Craig Doyle. She left in 2005 when she was replaced by Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen . She also presented the BBC One spin-off programme "Holiday 10 Best". Buckley returned to her news background in 2005 when she joined Sky News (2005–07), anchoring their afternoon output. In a memorable blooper during her time at Sky, she mistakenly introduced playwright Harold Pinter as "Howard Pintus", saying that he was joining her in the studio, then correcting herself to announce that he had died. He had in fact won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Buckley has also presented a BBC Two documentary on the environmental impact of travel, entitled "Should I Really Give Up Flying" and regularly presents  the flagship ITV1 Current Affairs programme "Tonight". In June 2010, she co-hosted "Crimewatch Roadshow" on BBC One alongside Rav Wilding. For 3 years she was presenter of the internet car review site, Carbuyer and appeared in weekly car review videos for Carbuyer's YouTube channel alongside journalist and presenter Mat Watson and then James Batchelor In 2014 she joined the reporting team for the consumer programme "Watchdog" on BBC One and in 2015 became one of the presenters on the BBC's "Escape to the Country". Ginny became the Founder and CEO of Electrifying.com - a multi-channel media platform  fronted by three TV presenters and journalists: founder Ginny Buckley, Nicki Shields and Tom Ford. It was launched in March 2020 after assembling a team of electric and alternatively fuelled vehicle experts with decades of years of experience in the automotive sector for consumers seeking jargon-free advice about the switch to electric cars.<ref>