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Penelope Jane Smith is an English television presenter, newsreader, and radio host. She has worked for Sky News, GMTV, Classic FM, BBC Radio London, talkRADIO and is currently the host of Scala Radio's weekday drivetime show.

<h2>Biography and Age</h2>

Penelope Jane "Penny" Smith was born on September 21, 1958, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Growing up in Rutland, Penny attended Uppingham Primary School and the Rutland High School for Girls in Oakham. As a young girl, she had an obsession with carrots. "When I was growing up, my mum grew most of our vegetables herself, but not many made it to the dinner table because I was permanently grazing in the garden. I am still absolutely obsessed with veggies. If I go around to a friend's house for dinner and they present me with a plate of pasta, I've been known to forage around for some veg to brighten things up. Whenever I go on a long car journey, I always take a bag of carrots with me to snack on, and I generally get through the lot. My friends laugh at my "travel carrots," but they always keep me going and are certainly a more nutritious alternative to coffee and cake."

<h2>Marriage, Wife, and Kids</h2>

Penny married Tony Birtley, a fellow journalist, in 1984. The marriage did not last for a long time, as it ended in divorce in 1987. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Bremner">Rory Bremner</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McKenna">Paul McKenna</a> are Penny's only two past relationships known to the public. She has been in a relationship with the actor Vince Leigh since 2001. After her three-year marital life with Tony, she had no desire to marry another man again.

Penny and Vince have been living together for more than a decade. They met each other when Vince started a tour in a gender-bending adaptation of a Winter's Tale.

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<h2>Career and Net Worth</h2>

Penny started her career back in 1977 as a feature writer on the "Peterborough Evening Telegraph." In 1984, she joined "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_FM">Radio Trent</a>" as a reporter/presenter, and then she worked for "Central Television" as the press officer for documentaries and drama. She then reported on current affairs for "Radio Television Hong Kong" while backpacking all over Central and South America and Southeast Asia. This happened before moving to "Sky News" in 1993.

Other notable positions in her television career include her work as a regular contributor on "The Alan Titchmarsh Show" and the "Friday Night Arts Show" on BBC Radio 2, filling in for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Winkleman">Claudia Winkleman</a> when she wasn't available. On March 26, 2016, Penny began presenting "Saturday Breakfast" on the new UK radio station "Talkradio."

The most significant part of her career has been on GMTV, where she began working in April 1993. Seventeen years later, in 2010, Penny gave a tearful farewell to the GMTV studio when she left the program. Her departure came as a result of GMTV's decision to begin a radical overhaul. Speaking before the show, Penny said: "It's an ideal time for me to say goodbye to early mornings. Now that the format has changed, I have taken the plunge, and I am moving on. Thank you to everybody who said nice things to me today. Thank you for supporting us. It's been great. My dressing room's awash with flowers!"

Penny has also been very active as a writer, and she has written for numerous newspapers and magazines nationally, including a beauty column for "Femail" in the "Daily Mail," and many articles in "Essentials" magazine, "Good Housekeeping," and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_&_Home">Woman and Home</a>." Penny has also produced three yoga videos titled "Penny Smith's Power Yoga," "Penny Smith's Essential Guide to Yoga," and "Penny Smith's Yoga Masterclass."

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