Jenny Powell
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| Born | 8 April 1968 Ilford, London |
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| Occupation | Television presenter |
| Children | She has 1 daughter. |
Jenny Powell (born April 8, 1968 in Ilford, London), is a British television presenter. She attended Woodford County High School for Girls in Woodford Green.
Powell began her career in 1986 presenting the BBC2 music programme No Limits and then moved to Saturday morning television for children, first co-presenting UP2U for BBC One during the summers of 1988 and 1989, and then CITV's Ghost Train. In the mid-1990s, she became the hostess on ITV's version of Wheel of Fortune.
More recently, she has presented Soap Fever, Live Talk, Getaway, and "Our House" for UK TV Style. She tried to make it as a stand-up comedian in Granada Television's "Stand Up Jenny", and was a regular on ITV1's "Loose Women". In 2005, she was one of the competitors in the ITV reality TV show, Celebrity Wrestling, competing under the name, The Avenger.
In 1997 she appeared on Channel 4's "Brass Eye", a satirical spoof documentary show produced by Chris Morris. She talked earnestly about the perils of 'heavy electricity' and warned that the south of England could be catapulted towards Finland if people did not bang on wires with hammers.
Powell has recently started presenting on BBC One's "To Buy or Not to Buy".
