Peter Jihde Biography, Age, Brothers, Wife, Diabetes and Career

Peter Jihde Biography

Peter Jihde is a Swedish television host and sports reporter for TV4. A Malmö native, Jihde has hosted Sporten, Fotbollskväll, as well as presented the Olympic games and football world championships. He has his own talk show “Hos Jihde” on SVT , for which he is the host. The show premiered in 2006 and Peter basically conducts interviews of Swedish celebrities. Among the list of other programs he has hosted is, Idol 2007, Idol 2008, Idol 2009 and Idol 2010 in Swedish Idol.

Peter Jihde Age

Jihde is 47 years old as of 2018. He was born on 12th July 1971 in Malmö, Sweden.

Peter Jihde Family – Peter Jihde Brothers

Peter comes from a family of four boys born to Leif Jihde, retired salesman and his wife Anita Jihde, a retired teacher in German and English. Peter’s three younger brothers are; Niklas Jihde, who is a former floorball player-turned TV host working on the channel TV4 Sport, band- player Johan Jihde, as well as sports journalist Patrik Jihde.

Peter Jihde Wife

Jihde is married to Karin Widengren since September 6, 2008. The two wed in a small and quiet ceremony with a few of their guests in attendance in Fide Church on Gotland. Widengren is a communications manager by profession. The couple has two daughters namely; Alice Jihde and Amanda Jihde. Peter was previously married to Sarah Grapenfelt from 2002 till their split in 2006. The two have a daughter together, her name, Mollie Jihde.

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Peter Jihde Career

At a young age, Jihde moved to Moheda and later to Växjö, where he worked as a breadcracker before he started as a sports commentator on Sveriges Radio.

He first left TV4 after a fuss with commentary Robert Perlskog and received an offer from SVT, a service he had until 2007. Among other things, he led SVT’s broadcasts from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy, and in July 2004 he interviewed the Swedish King of Children for SVT. Jihde was Hockeykväll (a web-based ice hockey magazine) Program Manager, which was shown in SVT. In the autumn and winter of 2006/2007 he led his own talk show At Jihde.

In 2007, TV4 attracted Jihde back with the opportunity to work on several major sporting events that the channel could handle in the future – including the Handball EM and the European Football Championship 2008. In addition, he had his own sports talk show.

In 2007 he was the program leader of Idol on the channel. The Audition part of the program was led by Carina Berg and Carolina Gynning . In the 2008 Idol , he handled all these tasks, as he did in 2009 and 2010 . However, at the end of December 2010, Peter Jihde announced that he had jumped off the program for the coming season.

Between 2012-2018 he has been one of the program leaders at Nyhetsmorgon, where he usually worked in team with Tilde de Paula Eby. In January 2018, Jihde announced that after 18 years at TV4, he would be leaving company. He got an offer from Nentgroup (which owns TV3 and Viasat) and he decided take it up as it presented him with a greater chance to pay more attention to diabetes issues.

Peter Jihde Diabetes

Jihde was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2012 when he took a blood test that showed a value of excessively high blood sugar. He quickly learnt how to take his shots and accepted that he would live with it. He also had to exercise and check his diet more to be careful of what he ingests. He now leads a diabetes project – he is the host of a program called the “Diabetes Gala” and is in a documentary series about the disease called “Living without dying – a series about diabetes”. In the documentary, several diabetics tell of their fear of not waking up due to low blood sugar and dying.

Peter Jihde Books

Peter wrote a book with his wife Karin on his journey with diabetes. It is called “Jihdes Diabetes”: a match for life. It was published on 15th November 2016.

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