Stephen Jardine

Stephen Jardine

Stephen Jardine (born 1963) 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, [ [http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/newsfeed/2008/04/13/queens-rule-78057-20380732/ Queens Rule - The Sunday Mail ] ] 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. [ [http://www.qosfc.com/07cupfinal.htm Official Queen of the South Site ] ]

Up until 2007, Jardine 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".

Jardine started his journalistic career as a reporter at Radio Tay before joining Scottish Television (now "STV Central").

When GMTV was set up in 1993, he left Scottish 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 left GMTV in December 1999 and returned to STV as host of 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". He has also presented a number of current affairs programmes for the station, such as "Seven Days", "Wheel Nuts", and "Sunday Live". Jardine has also fronted "Drivetime" on STV, and the channel's coverage of "The State Opening of the Scottish Parliament".

Up until February 2007, he presented a Saturday morning show on Talk 107, the Edinburgh-based radio station between 10am and 1pm.

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.

References

External links

* [http://www.stv.tv/content/tv/thefivethirtyshow/thesofa/stephen Stephen Jardine] at stv.tv
* [http://www.cormackcreativemanagement.com/gallery/stephen.htm Stephen Jardine] at Cormack Creative Management


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