Abbie Dewhurst: Biography, Age, Husband, Family & Career
For eight years, viewers across Yorkshire and northern England started or ended their day with Abbie Dewhurst and the weather. The BBC Look North presenter became known for forecasts delivered with warmth, humour and a distinctly northern sensibility — the 2.30am alarms and all. Then, on the eighth anniversary of her first day in the job, she walked away from the permanent role that had been her dream since she was a teenager, and rebuilt her career around the climate. From a Grimsby schoolgirl writing a weekly column for her local paper to a BBC weather presenter at 22, a Radio 1 host and Wimbledon reporter and now co-host of the Green Queens podcast, this is the full story of Abbie Dewhurst — her age, her husband Jake Goldby, her family and her career after the BBC.
Quick Facts
| Full name | Abbie Dewhurst |
| Date of birth | September 1993 (exact day not public) |
| Age | 33 years old |
| Birthplace | Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | St Martins Primary School; King Edward VI Grammar School |
| Occupation | Weather and climate presenter, radio broadcaster, podcast host |
| Known for | BBC Look North weather (2016–2024); Green Queens podcast |
| Employer | BBC (2014–2024); independent since 2024 |
| Husband | Jake Goldby (married 8 August 2020) |
| Children | None publicly confirmed |
| Company | Director of Ruby Media Limited (since June 2024) |
Early Life and Education
Abbie Dewhurst was born in September 1993 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and brought up in the nearby market town of Louth, before later living in Leeds. It makes her 33 years old — and a true “Yellowbelly”, as people from Lincolnshire proudly call themselves. The county has stayed central to her identity even after her career became tied to Yorkshire: she still describes herself as a Grimsby girl.
School was busy and broad rather than narrowly academic. She attended St Martins Primary School from 1997 to 2006 and then King Edward VI Grammar School from 2006 to 2012, filling her time with drums, orchestra and jazz band, netball and school shows. She also completed the Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards, volunteered with the Rainbows, and spent her Gold residential volunteering as a campsite assistant at Leeds Festival.
The first real step towards broadcasting came when she was 17. The Grimsby Telegraph ran an annual three-month Young Reporters programme that gave teenagers from the area a weekly column in the paper, and Abbie Dewhurst was among its first intake. She took to it immediately, later calling it the first experience she would always put down on her CV. The scheme’s young reporters went on to earn Diana Champion recognition for their community work, and the experience gave her something no classroom could: published work, deadlines and the confidence to write for a real audience.
What followed was not a straight line into television for Abbie, but a winding one, and that winding route shaped the presenter she became. After school she worked as a trainee legal executive at the Grimsby law firm Wilkin Chapman, handling debt collection and bankruptcy work — an unlikely apprenticeship for a weather presenter, but one that taught her how to stay calm and professional in difficult conversations. Alongside it she built media experience wherever she could find it: researching, writing and presenting for East Coast Pictures, a Lincolnshire production company, and working as a researcher and presenter on community station Siren FM, where she co-presented the Monday Night Drive show. She even spent three years presenting motorsport coverage for Special Stage Rally Review, interviewing drivers and recording links to camera outdoors in all weathers. Live, outdoors, unscripted: it was weather presenting in everything but name.
Career
Joining the BBC — Behind the Scenes First
Abbie Dewhurst joined the BBC in July 2014, taking a job as a broadcast assistant at BBC Lincolnshire. It was a behind-the-scenes role — programme research, arranging guests, editing, taking listener calls and supporting outside broadcasts — and it gave her a thorough education in how programmes are actually built. She was not simply placed in front of a camera; she learned the production side first, which is part of why she has always looked so comfortable when live television goes slightly wrong.
The Youngest BBC Weather Presenter
Two years later came the break she had been working towards since she was a teenager. In May 2016, at the age of 22, she became a BBC weather presenter, joining the BBC Look North team in Leeds. Her management biography described her as the youngest BBC weather presenter at the time — and it was, by her own later account, her dream job. She delivered forecasts across television and radio throughout northern England, explaining changing weather patterns in plain language with a warmth and humour that quickly made her a familiar face in the region.
The job was not glamorous in the way viewers might imagine. For eight years she woke before the sun, her own farewell message remembering the 2.30am alarms with a fondness that only makes sense once you have lived them. She presented through a pandemic, royal events happy and sad, extreme heat, devastating floods and general elections, building a reputation as someone viewers trusted to tell them straight whether they needed a coat.
Radio 1, Wimbledon and the National Stage
As her profile grew, so did the work beyond the weather map. At the end of 2022 she was picked to present a special Life Hacks show on BBC Radio 1 as part of the station’s Christmas Presenter Takeover, hosting the New Year’s Day programme from 4pm to 7pm alongside fellow presenter Mary Mandefield — a show about neat tricks and life hacks for younger listeners, and a long way from a rain chart. She also reported from Wimbledon, where her two worlds — sport and sustainability — came together. She hosted a panel discussion at Wimbledon’s Environment Day alongside Bear Grylls, Deborah Meaden and Earthshot Prize winner Rita Maria El Zaghloul, and in June 2026 she hosted the anniversary event for Wimbledon’s Championing Nature programme, with naturalist Steve Backshall giving the keynote.
Climate and sustainability had become the thread running through everything she did. She built a large following on TikTok — around 85,000 followers, alongside more than 40,000 on Instagram — with videos explaining the weather and greener living. She switched to an electric car four years ago and has been open about what she wishes she had known before making the change. And she is still the person broadcasters and brands call on when they need a weather expert who can speak plainly: in October 2026 she was quoted in the national press advising households how to prepare for a stormier winter as a developing El Niño threatened more unsettled weather.
Leaving Look North
Then, on 27 May 2024, she announced she was leaving her permanent BBC role — choosing, deliberately, her eight-year weather anniversary to do it. In an emotional farewell message she looked back on the eight years since she had walked into BBC Yorkshire as an excited 22-year-old, and on everything the job had thrown at her: the pandemic, the floods and heatwaves, being thrown down a hill in a soap box in Bradford, hosting a show on national radio, reporting from Wimbledon, covering stories about pigs and viral social media videos, and — most memorably — a Children in Need tandem bike ride with Peter Levy. Her last permanent bulletins came in June 2024, eight years after she had started.
The decision was not a goodbye to broadcasting, but a deliberate step towards a broader career built around climate communication, presenting and digital media rather than a single daily forecast slot. Within weeks she was back on BBC airwaves anyway, covering for Rima Ahmed on the BBC Radio Leeds breakfast show and taking a presenting slot on Morning Live’s Manchester sofa. Sharp-eyed viewers in the North West also spotted her presenting the weather on North West Tonight, and in March 2025 she boarded the Forget-Me-Not Train from Whitby to Middlesbrough for Morning Live’s Memories and Dementia season.
Life After the BBC — Morning Live and Green Queens
The biggest project of Abbie Dewhurst’s post-BBC career is the Green Queens podcast, which she began co-hosting in February 2025 alongside sustainability presenter Imogen Bhogal. The show takes environmental issues — sustainable fashion, electric transport, conservation, renewable energy, responsible travel, sport and everyday consumer choices — and talks about them in an accessible, practical way. By November 2026 it had reached its sixth series, with the two hosts describing themselves as “the perfect podcast for imperfect environmentalists”. She also writes a Substack newsletter of recommendations, and continues to work as an independent weather and climate presenter, sustainability communicator and digital creator.
Her path will feel familiar to anyone who follows Britain’s regional weather presenters — a generation of broadcasters who learned the craft on local television and then built wider careers around it. Keeley Donovan, who now presents the weather on the same BBC Look North programme she left, and Louise Lear, another BBC weather presenter who made the regional bulletins her home, followed a similar route through the BBC. So did Laura Tobin, who moved from BBC Weather to ITV’s Good Morning Britain, and ITV weather presenters Alex Beresford and Helen Willetts. Among her BBC colleagues, Holly Hamilton and Stav Danaos are fellow presenters whose careers took shape in the same regional newsrooms. What sets her apart is how completely she has remade herself since leaving: not a former weather presenter trading on old fame, but a working climate communicator with a podcast, a newsletter and a national profile of her own making.
Personal Life
So, who is her husband? His name is Jake Goldby, and their story long predates her television career. The couple got engaged on 15 June 2018, and had planned to marry in the Italian countryside — but the Covid-19 pandemic forced them to change their plans, and they married instead on 8 August 2020. In August 2026 she marked six years of marriage with an anniversary message revealing that she and Jake had been together for fifteen years, which places the start of their relationship back around 2011, when she was still a teenager finding her way into media. Jake keeps a low profile and stays out of the spotlight, though he appears occasionally in her social media.
The most famous member of the household, regular viewers might argue, is not a person at all. Her old rescue dog, Ruby, became familiar to audiences during her home broadcasts in lockdown and has appeared in her social content ever since. She is a vocal supporter of adopting rescue animals, and Ruby’s name now sits at the heart of her working life too: in June 2024, the same month she left her permanent BBC role, she became the director of Ruby Media Limited, the company through which she runs her independent presenting and podcasting work. She has never confirmed whether the company was named after the dog.
Beyond work, Abbie Dewhurst enjoys sport — CrossFit and weightlifting among them — along with antiques, second-hand shopping and the outdoors, and she has shared her project of renovating a 19th-century cottage. Sustainable fashion is both a personal interest and a professional one, feeding naturally into the conscious-living message of her podcast. She guards her private life closely and has never turned her family into content. There is no public record of her having children, and she has never confirmed anything on the subject either way.
FAQs
How old is Abbie Dewhurst?
She is 33 years old. She was born in September 1993 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire — the month and year are confirmed by her official Companies House record as a director of Ruby Media Limited. The exact day of her birth has never been made public.
Is Abbie Dewhurst married?
Yes, she is married to Jake Goldby. The couple married on 8 August 2020 after their original plan for a wedding in Italy was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. In August 2026 she marked six years of marriage and fifteen years together.
Who is Abbie Dewhurst’s husband?
Her husband is Jake Goldby. The two have been together since around 2011, long before she became a BBC weather presenter, and got engaged on 15 June 2018. Jake keeps a low public profile and stays out of the spotlight.
Why did Abbie Dewhurst leave BBC Look North?
She left her permanent weather presenting role on BBC Look North in June 2024, after eight years in the job. She announced it on her eight-year anniversary in the role, calling it her dream job but saying she wanted a broader career built around climate communication, presenting and digital media. She has continued to work for the BBC on a freelance basis since, including on Morning Live and BBC Radio Leeds.
What is Abbie Dewhurst doing now?
She works as an independent weather and climate presenter, sustainability communicator and digital creator. Her main project is the Green Queens podcast, co-hosted with Imogen Bhogal, and she also appears on BBC Morning Live, writes a Substack newsletter and creates content on TikTok and Instagram.
Does Abbie Dewhurst have children?
There is no public record of her having children, and she has never confirmed anything about it. She keeps her family life private. The best-known member of her household is her old rescue dog, Ruby, who became familiar to viewers during her home broadcasts.
What is Abbie Dewhurst’s net worth?
There is no reliable public figure for her net worth. She has never disclosed her earnings, and no reputable outlet has published a reported estimate — any exact number you see on biography-farm websites is invented, not sourced. Her income comes from her BBC freelance work, the Green Queens podcast, presenting engagements and digital content.
