Reeta Chakrabarti Biography
Reeta Chakrabarti is a British journalist, newsreader, and BBC News correspondent. She is well-known for hosting BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, and BBC Weekend News, as well as regularly appearing on the BBC News Channel.
Reeta Chakrabarti Age
Chakrabarti is 57 years old as of 2021. She was born on 12 December 1964 in Ealing, London, United Kingdom.
Reeta Chakrabarti Family
Chakrabarti was born in Birmingham to an Indian Bengali family. She has a sister named Lolita Chakrabarti. She has not shared any information regarding her loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Reeta Chakrabarti Husband
Chakrabarti is married to Paul Hamilton, a Queen Mary University of London Professor of English. They have three children and live in North London. She is a fan of poet John Keats and chose him as her specialist subject on the BBC television quiz Celebrity Mastermind, which aired on December 22, 2016. Her husband and three children live in north London with her.
Reeta Chakrabarti Education
Chakrabarti spent her adolescence in India, where she attended the Calcutta International School in Kolkata. From 1984 to 1988, Chakrabarti studied English and French at Exeter College in Oxford, including a year in France. In 2018, Chakrabarti was named an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. In 2018, York St John University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Letters, and in 2019, University College London named her an honorary fellow. She also holds an honorary degree from the University of East London.
Reeta Chakrabarti Illness
Chakrabarti announced her hospitalization on Twitter on October 2, 2021, in front of her 16,000 followers. She stated that she was “in pain,” but did not elaborate on what was wrong with her. The broadcaster described how a complete stranger stepped in to assist her when he noticed she was “suffering.” The star gushed about the man in question, who went out of his way to get her something to quench her thirst in her hour of need. Reeta thanked the acquaintance in the candid update, which drew a flood of comments. Following her update, Reeta responded to a number of her fans, confirming she is now feeling much better.
Reeta Chakrabarti Net Worth
Chakrabarti has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Reeta Chakrabarti Career
Chakrabarti began working as a reporter for the Breakfast Programme on the newly launched BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994. She later worked as a general news correspondent for both television and radio. She joined the BBC as a Community Affairs correspondent in 1997, covering the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry as well as working on Home Affairs.
Chakrabarti joined the BBC as a political correspondent in 1999, where she worked across a variety of television and radio programs, reporting on politics for BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. She was the BBC News education correspondent in January 2011. She was hired as a news presenter for BBC One and the BBC News Channel in May 2014.
Chakrabarti has chaired and hosted a number of corporate events, including the Royal Television Society’s Educational Television Awards Dinners in 2003 and 2004. She also hosted the RTS’s 2018 TV Journalism Awards. She hosted the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at Buckingham Palace in April 2018. Chakrabarti will succeed Dr. John Sentamu as Chancellor of York St John University in October 2019. She began her tenure in March 2020. She appeared with fellow newsreader Clive Myrie in an episode of BBC Two’s Celebrity Antiques Road Trip in November 2021. In the same month, she and her daughter Roxy appeared on BBC1 in a Children in Need special episode of Bargain Hunt.
Chakrabarti is a patron of Pan Intercultural Arts, a UK charity that uses the arts to empower and unlock the potential of marginalized young people. She is also a patron of the Oxford University Media Society and, in 2021, she will become a trustee of the Keats Shelley Memorial Association. She served as a judge for the 2021 David Cohen Prize for Literature, which was won by author Colm Toibin. Chakrabarti was named Chair of the Panel of Judges Choosing the Costa Book of the Year 2021 in December 2021.
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