Jane Amanda Hill is an English newsreader working for the BBC. She is one of the main presenters for BBC News and is the main presenter on the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Five, as well as regularly presenting the BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Ten and BBC News at Six.
She also occasionally presents The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and is whilst presenting BBC News at Five on Fridays on the BBC News Channel which includes The Film Review with Mark Kermode.
On Monday 16 August 2010, she began a week sitting in for Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2’s music and news programme. Hill returned as a relief presenter for BBC News at Six and also joined the team of relief presenters for BBC News at Ten in August 2014.
She appeared as herself in the 2014 science fiction action film Edge of Tomorrow, which stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. In 2016, Hill appeared at the end of the episodes of No Such Thing as the News for a series of brief comic sketches.
When Did Jane Hill Come Out?
Hill came out as gay in the BBC’s in-house magazine in 2009 and has been a vocal advocate of LGBT+ rights ever since.
A colleague said: “Everyone has known for years that Jane is gay. She hasn’t made a secret of it at the BBC and although she has had other girlfriends over the years, this one seems to be the one.”
When Was Jenny Hill Born?
Hill was born on 10 June 1969 in Eastbourne, Sussex.