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Andrea McLean - TV Weather Presenter
Andrea trained as a journalist and is now a weather presenter on GMTV. Andrea's family come from Glasgow."I love the variety of my job; it may be tiring, but it's never, ever boring!"
Anywhere that sells Scottish Tablet - I love it!
I take my son Finlay to Scotland a few times a year to meet his wee cousins and his Aunties
and Uncles. We go to Stirling, which is a beautiful city, and also to the tiny village of Fenwick,
in the West of Scotland.
I love going back to Scotland to see my family; everyone is so friendly
and chatty, the countryside is breathtaking and I can really let my hair down when I'm with
'the clan'!
GMTV; I've been there for over eight years, and in that time I've interviewed people from all walks of life, I've travelled the world, and I've even managed to take part in a west end play! OK, it was a very small part, and I didn't do it particularly well, but I did it!
In October 2004 I went to South Africa to present a week of live broadcasts from the small town of Mamone. GMTV helped a teenage girl called Mathapelo and her school, by providing them with a well so they could have clean drinking water, bicycles, and two new classrooms with books and computers.
It was the longest, hardest week of my life, and I loved every minute of it. I was very emotional at the end of the week, as were the whole team; we were so proud that we had done something to help this amazing young girl.
I would love to present a lifestyle programme; interviewing stars, doing makeovers, and making people feel better about themselves! Or a live Saturday evening show; I love the buzz of live television, and that way I wouldn't have to get up at 4am!
The variety; it may be tiring, but it's never, ever boring!
I lose myself in writing. I look forward to sitting down at the computer in the same way that I love sitting down to read a good book; I know where I want the character to go, I'm just not exactly sure what adventures she will go on to get there!
I am sunny and bright, with occasional cloudy spells…!
For a long time my favourite place in Africa was Kenya, and I visited the country many times…
but now it has been replaced by South Africa.
Both countries are complex, they are not all they
seem, and they both have a chequered past and an uncertain future, but there is such hope in
South Africa, and such beauty, that you can't help but love it. It's got everything; beautiful
rugged coastline, breathtaking wildlife and wide African skies. But it also has an edge to it;
it's not a Disney-type experience where everything is lovely and there is always a happy ever
after, and you do have to be careful. But I love it.
I have done both: I spent a year backpacking around the world in my twenties, and I have also
travelled in style. I have to say that having done both, I like luxury better!
I would like to visit The Maldives; I've never been before and it looks amazing. That would
definitely been done in luxury! And I would like to backpack in somewhere like Nepal; it looks
so unusual and unlike anywhere I have ever been, that I would like to see it close up, and not
just through a four-star window. Although, I'd book a week on a resort to recover!
To find out more about Andrea please see GMTV
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