Ranvir Singh
Ranvir Singh (born 11 August 1977) is a British television presenter. She is the Political Editor, Standby Newsreader and Standby Presenter for Good Morning Britain.
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Born | Preston, Lancashire, England | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{"., Expression error: Unrecognized word "august".Expression error: Unrecognized word "august".Expression error: Unrecognized word "august". (age 47)
Alma mater | Lancaster University, University of Central Lancashire |
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Notable credit(s) | BBC North West Tonight Good Morning Britain ITV News Loose Women Strictly Come Dancing |
Spouse(s) | Ranjeet Singh Dehal (m. 2012, divorced) |
Children | 1 |
Early life
Singh was born in 1977 in Preston, Lancashire in a Sikh family. Educated at Kirkham Grammar School, an independent school in Kirkham, Lancashire, she graduated from the University of Lancaster with a degree in English and Philosophy. She then gained a postgraduate qualification in journalism at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Lancashire.
Career
Singh joined BBC Radio Lancashire in 2002, initially on work experience before being a six-month contract. She then moved to BBC GMR, covering the 2002 Commenwealth Games in Manchester. Singh joined the BBC North West regional news programme North West Tonight in 2005 as a journalist and bulletin presenter. She was a co-presenter of the ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak and then did Good Morning Britain as a features correspondent and news presenter with Susanna Reid, Sean Fletcher, Ben Shephard and Charlotte Hawkins, then she has been a relief newscaster on the various ITV News bulletins, then did a factual programme Tonight as a reporter. Since March 2015, she has guest presented numerous Exposure specials. In 2016 and 2017, Singh co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show alongside Martin Lewis, but was later replaced by Angellica Bell. And then Singh danced with a professional dancer in the eighteenth series of the BBC One celebrity dancing show Strictly Come Dancing since 2020.