Who is Michaela Strachan? Inside Dancing on Ice contestant’s life from Springwatch to surprising music career

WILDLIFE adept Michaela Strachan has been a instrumentality favourite ever since she burst onto our screens successful the 80's.

However, she is swapping the large outdoors for the crystal rink to take portion successful Dancing On Ice.

Michaela Strachan is an English tv presenter

She was calved connected April 7, 1966 successful Epsom, Surrey, and grew up successful Hinchley Wood.

Before her galore roles connected nationalist television, Michaela performed successful theatre.

She launched her TV vocation successful the 80's, and has remained successful the spotlight ever since.

In October 2014, Michaela revealed that she had a treble mastectomy and reconstructive country pursuing a diagnosis of breast cancer.

In 2019, she revealed that she was cancer-free.

A information astir Michaela that radical whitethorn not know, is that the set Scouting for Girls dedicated a opus to the wildlife adept called Michaela Strachan You Broke My Heart (When I Was 12).

This appeared arsenic a hidden way connected their 2007 debut medium astatine the extremity of the opus I Wish I Was James Bond.

Impressive TV career

Michaela has had a glittering vocation arsenic a presenter moving mostly connected quality programs, with kids of the 80's knowing her for the children's show, The Really Wild Show.

Alongside these successful the 80's, she presented Wide Awake Club and appeared connected the archetypal Good Morning Britain.

Up until 2009, Michaela was a regular newsman for BBC One show, Countryfile.

These days Michael is champion known for being 1 of the hosts of BBC shows Springwatch

and Winterwatch.

She presents the amusement alongside Chris Packham, her erstwhile Really Wild Show co-star.

They besides hosted Autumnwatch until 2023, earlier the much-loved BBC amusement was axed.

In October 2024, it was announced that Michaela would beryllium taking portion successful Dancing On Ice 2025.

She said: “I was considered for the amusement 14 years agone - I’ve been considered for it doubly - but this twelvemonth they’ve asked maine to bash it, and I said yes.”

Pop career

Although fans cognize her for TV, the prima had a little popular vocation nether the signifier sanction Michaela.

As a singer, she released 2 singles - a screen and an archetypal opus - which some had illustration success, reaching the UK Top 100 Charts.

Her opus Take Good Care of My Heart reached fig 66 connected the charts successful 1990.

After ditching singing herself, she past went onto big the euphony amusement The Hitman and Her betwixt 1988 and 1992 with Pop Idol justice Pete Waterman.

Happy family

Michaela joined filmmaker Duncan Chard successful 1996, but they divorced 5 years aboriginal successful 2001.

The brace did not person immoderate children together.

A person introduced her to aboriginal semipermanent spouse and cameraman Nick Chevallier successful 2003.

She gave commencement to their lad Oliver connected June 8, 2005.

Speaking with The Telegraph successful 2016, Michaela revealed: "I'd ne'er been idiosyncratic hopeless to person children and past I changed my mind.

"It was rather a cardinal quality betwixt america and it ended the marriage."

The household present unrecorded successful Cape Town with Ollie and Nick's 3 children from a erstwhile relationship.