Jane Moore

Some Lesser Known Facts About Jane Moore

• Moore was born in Oxford. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and her mother was a teacher.

• She was passionate about acting and was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Although, due to financial constraints, she couldn’t attend the drama school.

• From the age of 11, Jane had always dreamt of becoming a journalist, so she decided to pursue this career path instead.

• Her parents got divorced when she was young since then she lived with her mother and has not heard from her father.

• In 1981, she worked on her skills at the Solihull News before she landed in a full-time role at the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail.

• After stints as an investigation reporter at the Sunday People and a launch news editor at Sunday Sport, Jane made history in 1987 when she became the first female editor of The Sun’s Bizarre showbiz column.

• She was a news editor for the Sunday Sport. She is also a columnist for newspaper The Sun and writes regular articles for The Sunday Times. She has also written for the weekly magazine Hello.

• She was a panelist and anchor on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 1999 and 2002, returning as a regular panelist from 2013 onwards.

•  In 2006, she was nominated for a British Press award in the category of Columnist of the Year.

• From 2006 to 2007, Moore was a team captain on the BBC three programmed Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive, a comedy takes on celebrity panel shows.

• She guest presented The Wright Stuff in 2003 and 2004 and was a panelist in 2008. On 4 February 2011, she guest hosted The Wright Stuff.

• She also revealed in October 2021 on Loose Women that she was briefly an estate agent.

• In November 2024, Moore appeared as a contestant on the twenty-fourth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!

• She is an avid animal lover.