Amy Irons Bio, Age, Height, Family, Wife, Kids, BBC News

Amy Irons Biography

Amy Irons is a media personality serving as a Presenter of the hugely popular football podcast “Sacked in the Morning” as well as the long-running BBC outdoor programme; The Adventure Show. She also presents on BBC Scotland’s flagship news programme The Nine, and fronts the entertainment news programme; The Edit.

Amy Irons Age

She is 32 years old as of February 2024. She was born on May 28, 1991, in Scotland.

Amy Irons Height

She stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches tall.

Amy Irons Nationality

Amy is Scottish by nationality.

Amy Irons Education

She attended St Joseph’s College, Dumfries between 2003 and 2009 and later graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2013 with a First-Class Honour’s Degree in Multimedia Journalism and was awarded a Scottish Student award.

Amy Irons Family

Amy is the daughter of Davie Irons, a Scottish former football player, and coach, and Fiona Irons, a sports educator.

Her father’s playing career spanned 26 years as a central defender or midfielder for a host of clubs, most notably for Ayr United, Clydebank, Dunfermline Athletic, and Partick Thistle. Previously, he has also been manager of Annan Athletic, Gretna, Greenock Morton, Stenhousemuir, and Gretna 2008, and assistant manager at Carlisle United. Amy was raised alongside her brothers Lewis and Luke.

Amy Irons Husband

She is not married. However, she is in a relationship with Fraz Curran. Previously, Amy was in a relationship with Wayne Ewer, a businessman who committed suicide in June 2018. He attempted to take his own life on June 17, 2018, and died in the hospital a few days later, aged 34.

Wayne had been drinking and using cocaine hours before he took his own life. He knew Amy was anti-drug, so he tried to hide his problem from her.

On that fatal day, Wayne called NHS24 and left the door of their Glasgow flat open for paramedics to discover him, but he died four days later in Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. He passed away in Amy’s arms surrounded by her family and Wayne’s dad Graeme and sister Tammy. She has got a tattoo in memory of him.

Amy Irons BBC News

Amy is a Scottish TV host, radio star, voiceover artist, event host, and sports journalist who has a degree in the field. Amy used to co-host the Capital FM Scotland Breakfast Show, which was one of the most popular morning shows in the UK. She won the hearts of her listeners by making them laugh every weekday from 6 AM.

Having served as a Sports and Entertainment presenter for BBC in Scotland, the journalist brings with her a wide range of expertise and experience in both news and entertainment to her current position.

The engaging TV and radio presenter served the Capital FM breakfast show, which boasts over 300,000 listeners a week as a co-presenter between Feb 2017 and Jan 2019 in Glasgow city.

In Oct 2012 and Feb 2013 at Glasgow Caledonian University, the accomplished live event host presented an award-winning documentary about legal highs; an informative documentary looking at the dangers of new psychoactive substances known as ‘legal highs.’

Amy is a regular contributor to STV’s entertainment output having previously fronted STV news coverage as both a news and sports reporter and presenter, a responsibility she held for three years, back in Apr 2014 to Feb 2017. During her tenure, the creative self-shooting Video Journalist was responsible for filming, editing, and presenting features and news stories on a daily basis.

She became a winner of a 2013 Scottish Student Journalism Award for investigative journalism (the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award) and also gained particular recognition for reports from Gibraltar during Brexit and from the refugee camps in Calais.