Jane Goldman

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Jane Lauretta Goldman (born 11 June 1970, Hammersmith) is an English writer and presenter of Jane Goldman Investigates, a paranormal series on LivingTV.

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[edit] Personal life

She became romantically involved with TV presenter Jonathan Ross when she was a 16-year-old pop columnist for the Daily Star newspaper, and married him in 1988, when she was 18. They have since had three children: Betty Kitten (named after Bettie Page) born July 1991, Harvey Kirby (named after comic book artist Jack Kirby) born March 1994 and Honey Kinny born February 1997. The family lives in Hampstead, London, England.

[edit] Career

Goldman wrote the novel Dreamworld, and the non-fiction, two-volume series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, about the American television show. Goldman appears as a character in author Neil Gaiman's short story "The Facts in the Case of the Disappearance of Miss Finch" (1996). She is co-writer of the screenplay for Stardust, based on Gaiman's novel.

In June 2008 she was named Film-Maker of the Year at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.

[edit] Jane Goldman Investigates

Goldman takes on several paranormal topics in her series, Jane Goldman Investigates. She has individual episodes about several aspects of the paranormal, including ghosts, clairvoyance, astrology and dowsing. She takes a very hands-on approach, attempting to perform many of the tasks she's investigating, such as tarot card-reading and astrology. She dedicates one month to each topic, begins meeting with experts in each field and at the end of each month is given a final test to see how well she has grasped the subject matter.

Goldman also looks at the scientific side of each subject and conducts experiments to further her investigation. For example, she set up an experiment with rune readings to see if people could pick their specific reading out of a group of many. While most of her shows are light-hearted and fun, a few delve into darker aspects of the paranormal, such as voodoo curses and poltergeists.

[edit] Lingerie model

She was also a lingerie model for Fantasie bras.

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