Jane Moore (born 17 May 1962) is an English journalist, writer, and television personality. She is a columnist for the tabloid The Sun and writes regular articles for the newspaper The Sunday Times. She was a panellist and anchor on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 1999 and 2002, returning as a regular panellist from 2013 onwards. Since 2018, Moore has been regularly relief-anchoring Loose Women. In November 2024, Moore appeared as a contestant on the twenty-fourth series of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and was the first contestant to be eliminated from the show finishing in 12th place.

Early life

Moore was born in Oxford. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and her mother was a teacher. She went to primary school in Oxford, then went to the Worcester Grammar School for Girls on Spetchley Road in Worcester, when her parents divorced. Since the divorce, she has not heard from her father. At school, Moore always wanted to be a journalist, but was told by her teachers that 'it was no job for a lady'. She studied journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff, then trained at the Solihull News in 1981, moving to work full-time at the Birmingham Mail and the Birmingham Post.

Career

Moore was a news editor for the Sunday Sport. She is now a columnist for The Sun and writes regular articles for The Sunday Times. She has also written for Hello. In 2006, she was nominated for a British Press Award in the category of Columnist of the Year, but lost out to Lucy Kellaway. She also revealed in October 2021 on Loose Women that she was briefly an estate agent.

Television

On 19 April 2002, Moore guest-presented This Morning. Moore moved to the BBC and regularly contributed to Question Time (2002–2012), The Andrew Marr Show (2005–21), This Week (2003–2015) and BBC Breakfast. Moore guest presented The Wright Stuff in 2003 and 2004, and was a panellist in 2008. On 4 February 2011, she guest hosted The Wright Stuff. From 2006 to 2007, Moore was a team captain on the BBC Three programme Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, a comedy take on celebrity panel shows. On 25 July 2011, she presented the six-part BBC Two series Wonderstuff. Moore has also done work with the Channel 4 programme Dispatches and has presented a number of online videos for the broadcaster. Moore was a panellist on the ITV chat show Loose Women between 1999 and 2002. She returned to the programme on 15 October 2013. In November 2024, Moore appeared as a contestant on the twenty-fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! where she was the first campmate to leave the jungle after being voted off by the public in the first elimination.

Other work

She started the consumer website Youthejury.com in 2006; however, the site is defunct.

Personal life

Moore married Gary Farrow, the former vice-president of communications at Sony Music Entertainment, in 2002. Elton John was the best man at their wedding. Her husband owns a PR agency called The Corporation Group. They currently live in Richmond, with daughters Ellie, Grace and Lauren, and their Tibetan terrier dog named Jasper. On 7 December 2022, while on-air on ITV's Loose Women, Moore revealed that she and her husband were to separate, but that their amicable marital split had suffered a delay, due to Farrow's broken leg after a fall, and she was acting as a carer.

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