Personality profile
Weather girl
Nazaneen Ghaffar on Sky, schooldays and shopping by Diane Nicholls
FROM Tunbridge Wells schoolgirl to telly star, the outlook is sunny for weather girl Nazaneen Ghaffar after landing a dream job on Sky News. Beautiful and bright, Nazaneen is a familiar figure on
our television screens as she presents the Sunrise breakfast show forecasts.
The daughter
of Iranian parents, Nazaneen was born and bred in Tunbridge Wells, and went to St James’ Primary School, before heading off to the town’s grammar
school for girls. “I loved my school days in Tunbridge Wells,” she said. “Kent is a wonderful place to grow up.”
Her passion for TV presenting began at an early age and at first she wanted to work in news. In the
evenings, when the television news came on, she would turn the sound down to mute and read the Ceefax subtitles to her family as though it was her autocue.
She said: “I am a light-hearted person, so keeping a
straight face for serious news stories was never going to work for me. I decided weather was the best route to take and I’ve loved it ever since.” Despite only having joined Sky five months earlier,
Nazaneen was chosen to present the weather for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton last April, an experience she describes as “one of the all time highs of my career”. With people camping on the streets of London and
street parties throughout the country, everyone was watching the forecasts for the royal celebrations. But Nazaneen sailed through, showing no hint of pressure. “It was an amazing, once in a lifetime experience I will never forget,” she says. An academic all-rounder at grammar school,
Nazaeen also enjoyed various sports including tennis, football and rugby. After A-levels, she developed her love for television
at Ravensbourne College in Chislehurst, graduating in 2006 with a BA (Hons) degree in broadcasting.
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