2010 and JTH has hit the ground running. She is one of small pool of regular panellists on the BBC1 flagship Sunday morning programme The Big Question. In January she presented a programme called Can Obama Change the World which is being shown in several countries. She appears regularly on BBC Breakfast as one of their Social Commentators and regularly participates in debates on The Alan Titchmarsh Show. She has just finished chairing the annual conference of the East Sussex Children’s Centres and has many other speaking engagements scheduled. In March 2010 she will be appearing in Changing Faces on Living.
Last year was also an interesting year for JTH. Addressing The Cambridge Union on Feminist Icons and publicizing her new book The Greatest Relationship & Dating Tips in the World (part of the bestselling The Greatest in the World series) certainly kept her busy. Her new interactive website jennitrenthughes.com attracts regular viewers from as far away as Finland and Japan.
Whether it is regular commentating on social issues across the broadcasting specdtrum specialising in family and parenting issues, confidence and relationship issues; co-presenting series as diverse as ITV’s LooseWomen or Toddler Taming (with Fiona Phillips); Jenni Trent Hughes is highly entertaining. Most of you will recognise Jenni as the stern Relationship Expert from CH4’s Perfect Match. The first series won the prestigious Silver Rose at Montreux award in 2002 and the second series garnered much publicity with her Asian episode being voted one of the 100 Top Telly Moments for 2002. Her career continues from strength to strength.
She regularly reviews newspapers for SKY News and BBC News 24; and contributes to news and current affairs programmes. She also recently completed Identity with Donny Osmond for the BBC, and though she is neither old nor grumpy she is a mainstay of BBC2’s Grumpy Guide to Life series. She co-presented Dinner Doctors on CH5 with Annekka Rice, a series that travelled around the country helping families that had issues in the home surrounding food. She appeared regularly for several years on Big Brother’s Little Brother. Jenni has a wide range of appeal and can successfully present a strand on Heaven and Earth or WifeSwap the Aftermath. She mentored Carol Smilie and Shaun Williamson in Gender Pretender and has had several strands on This Morning covering a variety of subjects. There is also a serious side to her and she has appeared as a weekly panellist on The Wright Stuff and general knowledge programmes such as CH4’s Beat the Nation.
Her career began, and still continues, in radio. She recently wrote and presented her first radio documentaryWhat My Daddy Told Me for Radio 4. She interviewed Michael Winner and other men on their relationships with their fathers. The program was both poignant and thought provoking and was chosen as Pick of the Week. Radio 4 has recently commissioned her to make a programme on her relationship with Ahmet Ertegun (late founder of Atlantic Records) whose right-hand she was for ten years. She also recorded her own episode of R4’s prestigious With Great Pleasure (a literary version of Desert Island Discs), which has been broadcast several times to much acclaim. She has been a regular panellist on Radio Five Live’s Late Night Live for several years. She has appeared on Woman’s Hour recently doing a series on the importance of beauty with Jenni Murray.
Her first book, Tough Talk Made Easy – 101 Difficult Conversations and How to Have Them was published Thorsons/HarperCollins and has been translated into French, Chinese and Bulgarian. She was agony aunt for handbag.com for 3 years, had a column in RED magazine for 3 1/2 years. Jenni also writes for a variety of publications, such as the Sainsbury’s magazine, Good Housekeeping, RED, Bella, Woman’s Own (to name a few); on a variety of topics such as travel, relationships, business and children.
Jenni is a very popular corporate spokesperson who often participates in both the back and front end of campaigns. She has represented, researched and written campaigns for companies such as J.P.Morgan Investments, Vodafone, AOL, Ariel, Abbey National, PriceWaterhouse, Learn Direct, Nescafe Gold Blend, Buena Vista, Rivercrest Wines, Warner Brothers Movies and Royal Mail to name a few. She also does conference, after-dinner speaking and lecture cruises, recently addressing 400 international accountants at the Baker Tilly annual conference in Paris.
She also does motivational speeches in universities and high schools focussing on self-confidence and believing in yourself. She is very involved in various charities and is a spokesperson for iCAN and Action for Children. In her spare time Jenni makes jewellery and is studying to be a magistrate J
She is also available for voiceovers. To hear her demo please go to HarveyVoices.com.