Jill Dando

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jill Dando
Occupation	TV Show Host
Date Of Birth	Nov 9, 1961(1961-11-09)
Age	63
Date Of Death	1999-04-26
Birthplace	Weston-super-Mare
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jill Dando Biography

Jill Dando is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on November 9, 1961 in Weston-super-Mare, England, United Kingdom. A late English journalist and TV host who was killed and shot at her home in April of 1999. The journalist had been the anchor for the BBC Crimewatch show Crimewatch which was recognized as BBC Personality of the Year in 1997.

After her passing after her death, she was replaced as presenter on Crimewatch in the absence of Following her death, she was replaced as the host of Crimewatch by Fiona Bruce..

Jill Dando was born at Ashcombe House Maternity Home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. She was the daughter of Jack Dando (February 1918 – February 2009) and Winifred Mary Jean Dando (August 1928 – January 1986), who died of leukaemia aged 57. Her only sibling, brother Nigel (born 1952), worked as a journalist for BBC Radio Bristol before retiring in 2017, having previously worked as a journalist in local newspapers since the 1970s. Dando was raised as a Baptist. When she was three years old, it was discovered that she had a hole in her heart and a blocked pulmonary artery. She had heart surgery on 12 January 1965.

Dando was educated at Worle Infant School, Greenwood Junior School, Worle Comprehensive School, and Broadoak Sixth Form Centre, where she was head girl, and passed two A-levels. She studied journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff. Dando was a member of Weston-super- Mare Amateur Dramatic Society and Exeter Little Theatre Company, with whom she appeared in plays at the Barnfield Theatre. She was a volunteer at Sunshine Hospital Radio in Weston-super-Mare in 1979.

She was married to an the gynecologist and obstetrician Alan Farthing at the time she passed away.

Jill Dando Net Worth

Jill Dando is one of the richest TV Show Host from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jill Dando 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was head of the Broadoak Sixth Form Centre and was a part of the plays staged in Barnfield Theatre. Barnfield Theatre.

The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science was created in her honour two years following her murder.

Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was a British journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She spent most of her career at the BBC and was the corporation’s Personality of the Year in 1997. At the time of her death, her television work included co-presenting the BBC One programme Crimewatch with Nick Ross.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Jill Dando Dating?

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On the morning of 26 April 1999, 37-year-old Dando left Farthing’s home in Chiswick. She returned alone, by car, to the house she owned in Fulham. She had lived in the house, but by April 1999 was in the process of selling it and did not visit it frequently. As Dando reached her front door at about 11:32, she was shot once in the head. Her body was discovered about fourteen minutes later by neighbour Helen Doble. Police were called at 11:47. Dando was taken to the nearby Charing Cross Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival at 13:03 BST.

Facts & Trivia

Jill Ranked on the list of most popular TV Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jill Dando celebrates birthday on November 9 of every year.

Dando presented the BBC television programmes Breakfast Time, Breakfast News, the BBC One O’Clock News, the Six O’Clock News, the travel programme Holiday, the crime appeal series Crimewatch (from 1995 until her death) and occasionally Songs of Praise. In 1994, she moved to Fulham. On 25 April 1999, Dando presented the first episode of Antiques Inspectors. She was scheduled to present the Six O’Clock News on the evening of the following day. She was featured on the cover of that week’s Radio Times magazine (for 24 to 30 April). Dando was also booked to host the British Academy Television Awards 1999, alongside Michael Parkinson, at Grosvenor House Hotel on 9 May. On 5 September, BBC One resumed airing of Antiques Inspectors, the final series to be recorded by Dando. The series had made its debut on 25 April, with filming of the final episode completed two days before that. The programme was subsequently cancelled following her death, but it was decided later in the year that it should be aired as a tribute to the presenter. The final episode aired on 24 October.

Who found Jill Dando?

Her body was discovered by a neighbour. Barry George was found guilty of Jill’s murder in 2001. He spent seven years in prison before being acquitted in 2008. His family are now calling on the Met Police to investigate the claims the TV favourite was killed in error by a Russian hitman.

Who Is Jill Dando engaged?

Jill Dando was murdered on the doorstep of her west London home 20 years ago this month in a brutal killing that shocked the nation. The 37-year-old Crimewatch presenter was engaged to be married to consultant gynaecologist Alan Farthing at the time and the pair were due to marry five months later.

Where did Jill Dando live in Chiswick?

He said: “She left her fiance’s home in Chiswick at 7 or 8am. “She then headed home to get changed before going to a fashion shoot. “Jill lived in Gowan Avenue , a two-storey house which she was actually selling for around £400,000.”

Is Jill Dando still alive?

April 26, 1999

Which Flog It presenter was murdered?

David Barby
Died| 25 July 2012 (aged 69) Coventry, West Midlands, England
Occupation| Antiques expert Television personality
Years active| 1990–2012
Television| Antiques Road Trip Bargain Hunt Flog It!