Jayne Irving is a British

United Kingdom

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 TV presenter

Presenter

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 best known for appearing on the Breakfast Television

Breakfast Television

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 show Good Morning Britain

Good Morning Britain

Good Morning Britain was TV-am's flagship breakfast television show throughout TV-am's time on air, broadcasting five days a week, initially from 7am until 9am. By 1985 the programme started at the earlier time of 6.15am and by 1988 the programme started at 6am. It had many different presenters...

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Career

Jayne Irving began her broadcasting career reading the news bulletins on the Sheffield based independent radio station Radio Hallam in the late 1970s.

Irving worked as a reporter in Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

 before joining TV-am

TV-am

TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992. It made history by being the first national operator of a commercial television franchise at breakfast-time , and broadcast every day of the week for most or all of the period...

. Initially, she presented the news bulletins on "Good Morning Britain".
Early in 1984, she got the chance to cover for Anne Diamond

Anne Diamond

Anne Margaret Diamond is an English radio and television presenter and journalist. She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and the similarly titled Good Morning... with Anne and Nick for BBC1, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter...

 and then established herself as a regular on TV-am, alongside either Nick Owen

Nick Owen

Nicholas "Nick" Corbishley Owen is an English television presenter and newsreader, best known for presenting the breakfast television programme TV-am and the BBC's local news show Midlands Today since 1997...

 or John Stapleton

John Stapleton

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In 1986, Irving became the regular host of the new After Nine slot and appeared every weekday. She was a driving force behind the station's successful life-saving Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer

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 Campaign.

Between 1986 and 1990, Jayne Irving was a regular co-presenter of the BBC

BBC

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 morning phone-in programme Open Air with Eamonn Holmes

Eamonn Holmes

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. The show was essentially Points of View

Points of View

Points of View is a long-running television show shown in the United Kingdom on BBC One, featuring the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and purportedly witty observations on the television of recent weeks...

 stretched out to one hour each weekday morning. It consisted of angry phone comments about the previous night's television in the United Kingdom.

Irving went on to present for various regional TV companies, including Westcountry Focus for Westcountry Television

Westcountry Television

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, and also the Living satellite channel. In 1999, she presented the Cheating Hearts strand on Talk Radio

TalkSPORT

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 (now called talkSPORT).

More recently, she has presented programmes on satellite channels, including the Travel Channel

Travel Channel

The Travel Channel is a satellite and cable television channel that is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US. It features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows in African animal safaris,...

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