Vanessa Collingridge

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vanessa Collingridge
Occupation	Television Presenter
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1968(1968-01-12)
Age	56
Birthplace	Oxfordshire
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Vanessa Collingridge Biography

Vanessa Collingridge is one of the most popular and richest Television Presenter who was born on January 12, 1968 in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. The youngest out of five kids of Gordon Ernest Collingridge (1927-2007) and his wife Irene (born Irene Keeping), Collingridge was born and raised within Woking, Surrey in England. She was a student of Geography in Hertford College, Oxford, where she was awarded an A-grade MA at the age of 90, even though she contracted viral encephalitis during her second year, which led to an extremely fatal swelling in her brain. It was in Oxford where she became acquainted with the man she would marry, Allan Watt.

In 2000, she quit her position as a TV host in the show Tonight alongside Trevor McDonald to author two biographies: one about 18th century explorationist James Cook and one of Celtic warrior queen Boudica. In her research on the latter author, she realized she shared an ancestor with famous Australian author and artist George Collingridge, who asserted in 1895 that Australia was discovered by the Portuguese.

She returned to television in 2007 as writer and narrator of the four-part miniseries Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery.

After graduation, Collingridge moved immediately to the world of television. First, she was an expert on the game shows such as Wheel of Fortune or Win, Lose or Draw after which she worked for fourteen months, she was a forecaster on BBC Scotland. In the mid- to late-1990s, she was a guest from time to times in BBC TV’s Gardeners’ World. She’s since been an presenter and producer on the five British terrestrial television channels, and also on BBC national radio.

Vanessa Collingridge Net Worth

Vanessa Collingridge is one of the richest Television Presenter from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vanessa Collingridge 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vanessa Jane Collingridge (born 12 January 1968) is a British author and broadcaster.

Collingridge lives in Scotland since 1989. She lives in a converted farmhouse near the shores of Castle Semple Loch near Lochwinnoch with her husband Alan Watt, and sons Archie, Angus, Finn and Dougal. In 2017, she completed her PhD in cartography of the past in Glasgow’s University of Glasgow, having been a radio broadcaster for BBC Radio Scotland’s Buried Treasure and BBC Radio 4’s Making History whilst studying.

She has described her very early interest in feminism in the introduction to her book on Boudica in 2005: “What started as a strong-willed desire for independence became a fully-fledged, bra-burning (if only I had been old enough to wear one) mentality… Certainly, I cannot remember a time when I wasn’t acutely aware of the inherently political nature of woman’s position in society and — much to my father’s disgust and my now extreme embarrassment — by the grand old age of twelve, I would proudly read Cosmopolitan magazine and proclaim myself a feminist!”

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Vanessa Ranked on the list of most popular Television Presenter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Vanessa Collingridge celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.