Inside Jill Douglas’ life from sports star husband to ‘spat’ with Olympic hero

Jill Douglas is a Scottish TV presenter who has turn into a famend sports journalist and is presently overlaying the Six Nations

Sports presenter Jill Douglas is presently in the course of certainly one of her busiest occasions of the yr as one of many hosts of ITV’s Six Nations protection.

The 56-year-old, who grew up in Bonchester Bridge within the Scottish Borders, has received a military of sports followers over time as she covers a few of the greatest tournaments.

The mum-of-two initially fronted Border TV’s Lookaround information journal earlier than transferring to current BBC Scotland’s rugby union protection on Sportscene in 1997. In 1999, she joined Sky Sports as a sports information presenter, and was concerned in each the rugby and Golden League athletics protection.

In 2003 she rejoined the BBC as one of many essential presenters of rugby union, biking, and different occasions, such because the Olympic Games and has been a well-known face on the channel ever since and has additionally labored for BT Sport and ITV.

On Saturday, February 21 she will likely be a visitor on James Martin‘s Saturday Morning on ITV alongside singer-songwriter Freya Ridings. Here we check out her life off-screen.

Sports star husband

Just like her BBC counterpart Gabby Logan, Jill is married to a former Scottish rugby worldwide. She and husband Carl Hogg dwell in Cheltenham and have two kids, Keith and Rosie.

Hogg had 17 appearances for Scotland ‘A’ between 1992 and 2000, captaining the facet on six events. Between 1992 and 1994 he made 5 appearances for Scotland and earned 5 caps. He is presently Director of Academy and Development for Gloucester Rugby.

The pair hold their household life personal though Jill sometimes shares photographs of their time collectively on her Instagram together with a current journey to Bucharest

‘Spat’ with Olympic hero

Jill reportedly bought into an ungainly scenario with an Olympic legend dwell on air again on the Rio video games in 2016. The Games in Brazil represented the final for Sir Bradley Wiggins, and the biking icon signed off by successful his fifth Olympic gold medal within the workforce pursuit occasion. It equalled the marker of rower Sir Steve Redgrave, who was co-presenting with Jill on the time.

Jill had begun conducting the interview with Wiggins when Redgrave, who himself retired after the 2002 Sydney Olympics, steamed in to takeover. He hugged his compatriot on the facet of the velodrome, prompting a snap response from Jill, beforehand reported the Mirror.

“Let me do this,” she instructed Redgrave. It briefly made for uncomfortable tv, though she later performed down any speak of spat, later tweeting an image of the pair smiling with the caption: “As you can see, Sir Steve in furious…”

Snooker star’s apology

Jill additionally hit the headlines having been on the receiving finish of a seemingly unjust outburst from snooker star Shaun Murphy. Working for ITV on the Players Championship, she questioned the ‘Magician’ over the notion he was responsible of lapses in focus.

Murphy responded with a considerably weird rant about “lazy journalism”. He additionally implied the view was “ridiculous,” though would later carry out a u-turn and apologise for his actions, reported the Mirror.

Indeed, he proceeded to ship a bottle of wine and a card to Jill by means of apology, and conceded he was flawed for “leaping down her throat”.

Charity work

Jill, who received an MBE in 2022 New Year Honours, is renowned for her work with the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation. She became CEO of the group in 2017 amid her friendship with Scottish rugby legend Doddie Weir, who died in November 2022 having been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Although she is no longer CEO, Jill is still a patron of the charity.

James Martin’s Saturday Morning is on ITV1 on Saturdays at 9.30am and ITVX

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