Rachel Mackley

Rachel Mackley (born 9 November 1982) is an English broadcaster.

Rachel Mackley
Born9 November 1982 [1]
London
Occupationweather forecaster
Partner(s)Oliver
Children3

Mackley grew up in Yorkshire and read Fine Art at Newcastle University.[2][1]

Following university, she worked in public relations in Edinburgh, before embarking on a journalism career in 2007 at Leeds Trinity and All Saints College with the help of an ITV bursary.[1]

After working for 3 years at ITV Anglia, Mackley moved to the BBC in 2011 on South East Today as the weather forecaster.

When the Aegon International tennis tournament returned to Eastbourne in East Sussex to celebrate its 40th anniversary, Mackley took part in a celebrity match on 17 June 2014. Prior to the match, she was coached by Leon Smith and presented a short section on the tournament on South East Today.[3]

Personal life

Mackley, her partner Oliver and their children[4] live in London.[1] On 19 February 2016 Rachel fainted live on air.[5][6] Rachel is keen runner and took part in the Hampton Court Half Marathon 2017[7]

gollark: I recently launched the SPUDNETv4 protocol for it but the only person using it is heavpoot for the heavdrone web UI.
gollark: Most of my secured stuff runs over SPUDNET, which is probably not entirely secure itself but oh well.
gollark: So technically with channel hopping you could avoid it.
gollark: I have a thing which pulls data from the sniffers and uses it to configure a smaller set of models, but it only listens to the last 128 used channels.
gollark: You can also conveniently shiftrightclick CC disks into a disk drive and they can eject them.

References
  1. Daniels, Chrissie (9 November 2012). "BBC weathergirl Rachel Mackley opens up about life in Kent_1_1687207". kentnews.co.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  2. "South East Today". bbc.co.uk. 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  3. "Aegon International tennis tournament marks 40th anniversary". bbc.com. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  4. "instagram page". Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  5. "BBC Weather presenter Rachel Mackley faint on live TV". ok.co.uk/. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  6. "BBC weather presenter faints on live TV". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  7. "Hampton Court Half Marathon 2017 now live". sussexsportphotography.blogspot.com. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
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