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Jan Leeming Biography
Although best known as a Television Newsreader, Jan has had a long and varied career in television and started her working life in theatre.
Born in Kent, Jan went to New Zealand and Australia in the early 60's where she appeared on both stage and television. She was the first woman newsreader on Television in Sydney in 1963 - quite a coup for a male dominated society and before the emergence of Women's Lib.!!
Her theatrical credits included a gruelling seven month tour of New South Wales with a Shakespearean Company called The Young Elizabethans. Jan played Portia in The Merchant of Venice and a witch in Macbeth - that's Rep. for you! Back in Sydney she played the part of Georgie in Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head opposite the late Robin Bailey. Jan starred with another well known English actor, Jack Watling, when she appeared in the John Chapman farce Diplomatic Baggage. She was invited to join the prestigious Union Repertory Company in Melbourne where she played Natasha in War and Peace and the lead in The Young Wife a tragic story about arranged marriages and the Greek community in Australia.
At the end of 1966, Jan returned home and her first job was as a Newsreader for Granada Television in Manchester. In 1968 she joined The Oxford Playh
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Jan Leeming
Biography
Best known as a BBC newsreader during the early-to-mid-1980's and also as a sometime host of Pebble Mill At One.
Before gaining national attention, she had been a theatrical actress in Australia and became Sydney's first female television newsreader prior to coming home for announcing/presenting stints at Westward, Granada and HTV West.
She largely dropped out of the public eye in the 1990s before re-emerging as a contestant on celeb reality shows.
Trivia
She sang 'Hello, Young Lovers' on 'The Russell Harty Show'.
In a famous BBC incident, a large studio lightbulb exploded while Jan was reading the news. To her credit, she kept much of her composure, before apologising and explaining to the viewers what had happened.
She ended up in hospital following a car crash while travelling to her new announcing role at Westward Television for the first time in 1965 - leading to a flood of cards and presents from viewers who had never seen her before.
Leeming endured another horrific ordeal in February 1987, when she happened upon some intruders in the BBC building shortly before she was due to read the late Sunday news. When she asked the intruders what they were doing, one of them sprayed ammonia in her face and stole her handbag: she was ru