Jenny Eclair Biography and Net Worth, Age, Family, Husband, Partner, Daughter
Jenny Eclair is a funny lady from England who was in a TV show called Grumpy Old Women and was also on a talk show called Loose Women. Jenny is helping the Food Standards Agency to tell people about eating too much salt in their food.
enny Clare Hargreaves wants people to know that too much salt is not good for you. Jenny Eclair is also a supporter of a charity called Listening Books. This charity helps people who have trouble reading books because of things like dyslexia or blindness.
Jenny has been on the radio too! She used to have her own show on a station called LBC 97.3 and has been on other shows on BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7. She also acts on the stage and was in a play called The Killing of Sister George in 2008.
One time, Jenny helped out a radio host named Danny Baker by sitting in for him on his show on BBC London 94.9. Let’s read her full biography and net worth below.
Jenny Eclair Biography
Jenny Clare Hargreaves, known as Jenny Eclair, is a British comedian and author. She was born on March 16, 1960, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Jenny has been performing stand-up comedy since 1983 and has appeared on television.
She is famous for her work in the TV series “Grumpy Old Women” (2004-2007) and her participation in “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here” in 2010. She is married to Geoff Powell, and they have one daughter named Phoebe.
Eclair is a comedian and author from England. In 2014, she appeared in a celebrity diving show called Splash! on ITV. She is also known for being the face of the Food Standards Agency’s campaign to reduce salt intake.
Eclair supports charitable causes such as Listening Books, which provides audiobooks to people who have difficulty reading. She has also hosted her own radio show on LBC Radio and appeared in comedy shows on BBC 7. Eclair has also acted in various stage productions.
Early Life | Family Background
Jenny Eclair has two siblings named Sarah and Benjamin Hargreaves. She went to a local grammar school and later studied drama at Manchester Polytechnic. Jenny Eclair is 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) tall and weighs about 60kg.
Eclair was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya to British parents. She returned to England when she was two years old and went to school in Lytham St Annes. She adopted the name Eclair when she was a teenager and pretended to be French while at a disco in Blackpool.
She studied drama in Manchester and performed in a cabaret group. Eclair’s first job in London was as a life model. She then found work performing punk poems after seeing an advert in The Stage. In 1989, she won the Time Out Cabaret Award and in 1995, she was the first woman to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Age | Date of Birth
She was born on 16 March 1960, in Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia). She is currently at the age of 63 years old; she will be 64 years old next year 2024.
Career
Jenny Eclair is a multi-talented performer born on March 16, 1960, in England. She started her acting career with Auf Wiedersehen Pet and then played a role in The Bill. She starred in the comedy series Packet of Three and won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Perrier Comedy Award in 1995.
Eurovision Song Contest | Grumpy Old Women
Eclair also provided alternative commentary for BBC Choice viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. She also helped develop BBC Two’s Grumpy Old Women and its spin-off shows. She starred in the stage show Grumpy Old Women Live, co-written by Eclair and Judith Holder.
Loose Women | Reality Shows
Eclair returned as a panelist in Loose Women from 2011 to 2012. She also appeared in Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, finished third in I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, and appeared on Celebrity MasterChef. She is a contestant in the fifteenth series of Taskmaster and was also a contestant in The Great Pottery Throw Down’s December 2022 festive celebrity show.
Husband | Children
Jenny Eclair is married to Geof Powell since 2017 and they have two children named Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Phoebe Powell. Her husband is a designer.
Geof Powell is a designer who built a four-bedroom house in Camberwell, which has been nominated for an RIBA award. His partner is comedian Jenny Éclair, and they have a daughter.
In the 1980s, Jenny and Geof bought a Georgian house that was in poor condition in an unfashionable road nearby. They gradually rebuilt it over several years and found the process very satisfying.
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