{"id":16813,"date":"2022-05-30T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countryfile.com\/?p=117052"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:36:08","slug":"who-is-michaela-strachan-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-springwatch-presenter","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/rss_feed\/who-is-michaela-strachan-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-springwatch-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Michaela Strachan? Everything you need to know about the Springwatch presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Tanya Jackson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 30 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Michaela Strachan is best known to audiences around the UK as a regular co-host of Springwatch<\/em>, Autumnwatch<\/em> and Winterwatch<\/em>, the BBC series collectively known as \u2018The Watches<\/a>\u2018. Her route to this fascinating career began back in the 1980s \u2013 but perhaps not where you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n

Who is Michaela Strachan?<\/h2>\n
Michaela Strachan is a wildlife presenter.\u00a0Her career surprisingly began somewhere slightly different \u2013 on kids\u2019 shows such as The Wide Awake Club\u00a0<\/em>with Timmy Mallett (1985).<\/p>\n\n<p>Her first wildlife presenting job was on <em>OWL TV<\/em> (Outdoors and Wildlife TV) in 1989, which subsequently led to her combining her wildlife knowledge with\u00a0 her presenting skills on\u00a0<em>The Really Wild Show<\/em>, which ran from 1992 to 2006. It was here she worked alongside Chris Packham, with whom she now hosts <em>Springwatch<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Autumnwatch\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Winterwatch.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also a familiar face to\u00a0<em><a href=\""https:\/\/www.countryfile.com\/countryfile-tv-show\/where-is-countryfile-visiting-this-week-and-what-time-is-it-on-bbc1\/"\">Countryfile<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>viewers, having presented on the BBC show for ten years before moving over to\u00a0<em>The Watches.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Where did Michaela Strachan study?<\/h2>\n<p>Michaela Strachan was born in 1966 in Ewell in Surrey and went on to study musical theatre at Arts Educational Schools, or ArtsEd, a performing arts school based in London.<\/p>\n<h2>Where does Michaela Strachan live?<\/h2>\n<p>Michaela Strachan lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with her partner, the film producer, director and cameraman Nick Chevallier.<\/p>\n<hr\/><h2>Michaela Strachan: six things you might not know about the\u00a0<em>Springwatch\u00a0<\/em>presenter<\/h2>\n<ul><li>Michaela Strachan\u2019s favourite animal is the African penguin. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine Cape Town without them,\u201d she told <em>BBC Wildlife Magazine\u00a0<\/em>in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Pop group Scouting for Girls penned a song about Michaela Strachan, released in 2007, with the lyrics, \u201cMichaela Strachan, you broke my heart when I was twelve\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul><iframe title=\""Spotify\" embed:=\"\" michaela=\"\" strachan=\"\" style=\""border-radius:\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""80"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\""autoplay;\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4PhltQ9kfrh3uFgrlBRbda?si=ae320ae004504bec&utm_source=oembed"\"\/>\n<ul><li>Michaela Strachan had a short-lived pop career in the late 80s with two hit singles: \u2018H.A.P.P.Y. Radio\u2019 and \u2018Take Good Care of My Heart\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul><iframe title=\""H.A.P.P.Y.\" radio=\"\" music=\"\" video=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""150"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QblLC18FhCQ?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<iframe title=\""MICHAELA\" take=\"\" good=\"\" care=\"\" of=\"\" my=\"\" heart=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""113"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8rACTID6BmA?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<ul><li>Michaela Strachan is allergic to elephants. She told\u00a0<em>The Telegraph<\/em> in 2015: \u201cOrphaned elephants, with their trunks around us, their hairs on us; I don\u2019t know what part of the elephant I\u2019m allergic to, but when I\u2019m surrounded by them like that I come out in a rash, my eyes start streaming.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>While filming for\u00a0<em>Countryfile\u00a0<\/em>in 2002, Michaela Strachan entered the World Gurning Competition at Egremont Crab Fair, a traditional festival on the West Cumbrian coast. To her surprise, she won the <a href=\""https:\/\/egremontcrabfair.com\/history\/ladiesgurning"\"><strong>Ladies\u2019 World Gurning Crown<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Because of her pop music background, audiences of the 2022 edition of\u00a0<em>The Masked Singer\u00a0<\/em>believed Michaela Strachan to be the \u2018mushroom\u2019. It turned out not to be the case \u2013 Charlotte Church was said \u2018mushroom\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><strong><em>Check out an <a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/people\/who-is-michaela-strachan-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-springwatch-presenter\/"\">interview with Michaela Strachan<\/a> over on Discover Wildlife.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tanya Jackson Published: Monday, 30 May 2022 at 12:00 am Michaela Strachan is best known to audiences around the UK as a regular co-host of Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch, the BBC series collectively known as \u2018The Watches\u2018. 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