Ginny Buckley

Ginny Buckley is a British journalist, radio and television presenter.

Buckley was born and brought up in Rochdale, England, before moving to Australia at the age of 18.

She started her career early, appearing regularly from the age of 12 for BBC local radio in Manchester, where she presented a children's radio programme. At the age of 12 she appeared on the iconic BBC children's programme Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, where she interviewed Noel Edmonds, David Bellamy and the pop group Sad Café.

Buckley also worked as an actress appearing in numerous plays for BBC Radio and studied Performance Arts and Media Studies at Oldham’s Grange Arts Centre.

At the age of 18, Buckley moved to Australia; she lived in Sydney and worked for several years in commercial radio. She worked as a junior in the newsroom at 2UW and later at Triple M, first in the news room and then as a producer for the top-rated show Club Veg.

She went on to beat 600 other applicants to present a new children's television programme for the Nine Network in Australia and went on to present a children's news programme C'mon Kids, along with Hey, Hey, It's Saturday, in which she worked with Jason Donovan.

Buckley returned to Britain in the mid-1990s and worked for Granada Television in Manchester, where she was a reporter on the regional news programme Granada Tonight. She also presented ITV's Bodycheck and Taste for Travel.

Buckley is passionate about cars and following the launch of Granada Men and Motors in 1996 presented their motoring programmes.

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