Jane Goldman

Infobox Person
name = Jane Goldman


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birth_name = Jane Lauretta Goldman
birth_date = birth date and age|1970|06|11|df=yes
birth_place = Hammersmith, UK
nationality = British
occupation = Writer, model,
television presenter
spouse = Jonathan Ross (1988 - present)

Jane Lauretta Goldman (born 11 June 1970 in Hammersmith, London) is an English writer and presenter of "Jane Goldman Investigates", a paranormal series on British television channel Living.

Personal life

Goldman first became romantically involved with TV presenter Jonathan Ross when she was a 16-year-old pop columnist for the "Daily Star" newspaper, and married him in 1988, when she was 18. They have since had three children: Betty Kitten (named after Bettie Page) born July 1991, Harvey Kirby (named after comic book artist Jack Kirby) born March 1994 and Honey Kinny born February 1997. The family lives in Hampstead, London, England.

Career

Jane Goldman worked as a staff writer on the multi-format computer games magazine Zero (video game magazine), circa 1990-1992. Whilst pregnant with Betty Kitten, she earned the nick name 'baby factory' in one of the staff features.

Goldman wrote the novel "Dreamworld", four non-fiction books for young adults, and the non-fiction, two-volume series "The X-Files Book of the Unexplained", about the American television show. Goldman appears as a character in author Neil Gaiman's short story "The Facts in the Case of the Disappearance of Miss Finch" (1996).

She was the cowriter of the screenplay for "Stardust", based on Gaiman's novel, and has two other screenplays currently in pre-production: a thriller entitled The Debt and a movie adaption of Mark Millar's comic Kick-Ass.

In June 2008 she was named Film-Maker of the Year at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.

Jane Goldman Investigates

Goldman takes on several paranormal topics in her series, "Jane Goldman Investigates". She has individual episodes about several aspects of the paranormal, including ghosts, clairvoyance, astrology and dowsing. She takes a very hands-on approach, attempting to perform many of the tasks she's investigating, such as tarot card-reading and astrology. She dedicates one month to each topic, begins meeting with experts in each field and at the end of each month is given a final test to see how well she has grasped the subject matter.

Goldman also looks at the scientific side of each subject and conducts experiments to further her investigation. For example, she set up an experiment with rune readings to see if people could pick their specific reading out of a group of many. While most of her shows are light-hearted and fun, a few delve into darker aspects of the paranormal, such as voodoo curses and poltergeists.She did a monthly column in Total Guitar, where she was taught to play guitar by a professional musician.

Modelling

She was also a lingerie model for Fantasie bras.

External links

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* [http://www.bitememagazine.com/article-jane-goldman.html Gothic Goddess]
* [http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/tv-programs/jane-goldman-investigates Review on DooYoo]
* [http://www.stargoss.co.uk/janegoldman/ Fan site]
* [http://www.foem.org.uk/interview-with-jane-goldman-on-stardust.html Interview with Jane Goldman on writing the screenplay for the movie Stardust]