Overview

• Speaking recently, Kirkwood said she feels sad when relationships end and referenced her 2008 divorce from Jimmy Kirkwood.
• She has described maintaining a cheerful on‑screen presence during that period by compartmentalising her grief away from the cameras.
• On James Martin’s Saturday Morning, she revealed she once worked as a production secretary on BBC Breakfast before later returning as its weather presenter.
• She outlined her route into presenting through a training ‘stooge’ role, work across local cable TV, a new agent, and an audition opportunity with the Weather Channel.
• She recalled early jobs including housemaid, waitress, receptionist, and postwoman in Edinburgh, and noted a long‑held but unrealised ambition to present Blue Peter.