Stephen Jardine

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Stephen Jardine is a Scottish television broadcaster, currently co-presenting STV's daily news and current affairs programme, The Five Thirty Show, alongside Rachel McTavish.

Born in Dumfries,^[1] Stephen Jardine is the son of the late Bill Jardine, a former Chairman of the town's Queen of the South football club. Stephen is a fan of the club.^[2]

Up until 2007, Stephen usually presented Scotland Today's East news opt-out, and anchored the main bulletin on Friday night, job-sharing with John MacKay. He was also a regular stand-in presenter/producer of the programme's online video blog, (Not) The Real MacKay.

Stephen started his journalistic career as a reporter at Radio Tay before joining STV.

When GMTV was set up in 1993, Stephen left to become the breakfast station's Scotland Correspondent. He then moved to Paris as Europe Correspondent, and also presented on the GMTV sofa covering stories ranging from the death of the Princess of Wales to the Cannes Film Festival.

Jardine returned to STV by hosting the station's Millennium Hogmanay Show live from the centre of Edinburgh, then he moved onto presenting the afternoon talk show Room at the Top and his own evening chat show Tonight at the Top.

Stephen has also presented a number of current affairs programmes on STV, such as Seven Days, Wheel Nuts, and Sunday Live. Stephen has also fronted Drivetime on STV, and the channel's coverage of The State Opening of the Scottish Parliament.

Stephen previously presented his own show on Talk 107, the Edinburgh-based radio station from 10am-1pm on Saturdays. He left the radio station in February 2007.

On Monday January 28, 2008, Jardine, along with Debi Edward (now Scotland Correspondent for ITV News) lanuched STV's new daily news programme The Five Thirty Show, broadcasting across the Northern and Central regions of the Scottish television station.