Jo Whiley Net Worth

Whiley is estimated to be worth $11 million dollars. This sum has been accumulated as a result of her prominent activities in the journalistic profession. Joanne Whiley is an English radio DJ and television broadcaster better known by her stage name Jo Whiley. She was the host of BBC Radio 1’s long-running weekday later weekend Jo Whiley Show. She now does her own Radio 2 show on weekday evenings.

Jo Whiley Salary

She makes a respectable living as the host of her Radio 2 show on weekday evenings. Whiley earns a yearly salary of $200,000.

Who is Jo Whiley?

Joanne Whiley is an English radio DJ and television broadcaster better known by her stage name Jo Whiley. She was the host of BBC Radio 1’s long-running weekday later weekend Jo Whiley Show. She now does her own Radio 2 show on weekday evenings.

Jo Whiley Age

As of 2023, Jo Whiley is 57 years old. She was born 4 July 1965 in Northampton.

Jo Whiley Parents

Whiley was born in Northampton to Martin, an electrician, and Christine, a postmistress.

Jo Whiley Husband

Whiley wed Steve Morton, a music industry professional, in Northampton in July 1991. India, Cassius, Jude, and Coco are the couple’s four children, and they reside in Northamptonshire.

Jo Whiley Education Background

She went to Campion School in Bugbrooke, near Northampton, and then to Brighton Polytechnic to study applied languages. She competed in swimming for Northamptonshire.

Jo Whiley Career Background

Whiley was still undecided about her career path in her last year of university, a meeting with a lecturer led to a job with BBC Radio Sussex on a show called Turn It Up. While was necessary to visit shows and interview the performers, it let anyone get on the radio.

After a year, Whiley enrolled in a one-year radio journalism study at City University London. She secured a job as a researcher on WPFM, a BBC Radio 4 youth culture and music show, after writing a lot of letters. She took over as host when Terry Christian and Gary Crowley resigned, earning her first presenting gig.

She then went into television, first at British Satellite Broadcasting, where she produced and hosted an indie show, and then at Channel 4, where she worked as a researcher on The Word alongside her friend Zoe Ball. During the heyday of Britpop, with bands like Blur and Oasis, Whiley went to BBC Radio 1 from September 1993 to March 2011. She hosted The Evening Session with Steve Lamacq, a weekday evening show geared toward less mainstream, non-dance music. In late 1995, Whiley hosted her own show on a Saturday afternoon.

Whiley was a regular guest presenter on Top of the Pops from 1995 to 1998, first co-hosting with fellow DJ Steve Lamacq before going solo and alternating with Zoe Ball and Jayne Middlemiss. The three women are known as the ’90s girls,’ according to the Top of the Pops website because they presented practically every episode in 1997. The only time all three of them appeared together was on Christmas Day 1997. Between 2005 and 2006, Whiley returned to the show twice to co-host with Fearne Cotton, the show’s main presenter.

Whiley’s autobiography, My World in Motion, was released on CD by Random House Audiobooks in July 2009.

The Jo Whiley Show on BBC Radio 1

Since February 1997, Whiley has hosted The Jo Whiley Show and then The Lunchtime Social, a weekday lunchtime show. While working within the constraints of Radio 1’s daytime schedule, this contained features of the evening program, such as tour dates and occasional live sessions’ at Maida Vale Studios. Whiley’s show was shifted to a mid-morning time when Simon Mayo left BBC Radio 1 for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 2.

The Jo Whiley Show was fined £75,000 in July 2008 for deceiving listeners about an event involving a BBC employee posing as a member of the public competing in a competition. According to the BBC, Whiley was completely unaware of the deceit at the time it was broadcast.

As part of a major shake-up of Radio 1’s weekday programming, Jo Whiley’s weekday show discontinued broadcasting in September 2009. Greg James was moved to the afternoon slot (which was previously occupied by Edith Bowman) while Fearne Cotton was moved to Whiley’s.  Her final weekday broadcast aired on September 18, 2009.

The Jo Whiley Show was transferred from weekdays to weekends between 1pm and 4pm. It featured Live Lounge performances by visiting artists, as well as three new features: Jo’s Road Trip,[9] Top of the Shops, and SpellStar, just like her previous weekday show. Her last BBC Radio 1 show was on March 27, 2011.

BBC Radio 2

Since August 2009, Whiley has been filling in for Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio 2 on a regular basis. She debuted on the network on Friday, August 21st, and made further appearances on October 2nd, November 6th, November 27th, and December 18th, 2009.

Whiley and former BBC Radio 1 presenter Steve Lamacq announced in March 2010 that they would host a one-off Evening Session (the first in 13 years) on BBC Radio 6 Music on Good Friday (2 April). On January 28, 2011, I gave another Evening Session. Whiley began hosting In Concert on Thursday evenings in April 2010 after serving as a stand-in broadcaster on BBC Radio 2.

Whiley stated on 1 February 2011 that she would be leaving BBC Radio 1 after 17 years to join BBC Radio 2, where she would host an evening show from Monday to Thursday, replacing The Radcliffe and Maconie Show, beginning on 4 April 2011. Radcliffe and Maconie would then go to BBC Radio 6 Music, while Huw Stephens would take over Whiley’s Radio 1 show. She has co-hosted Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park since 2011.

In March 2012, the BBC announced that Whiley and Lamacq would host a week of Evening Sessions on Radio 2 beginning April 7 as part of the broadcaster’s celebration of Britpop’s 20th anniversary.

Whiley stated in January 2018 that he would be joining daytime on a drivetime show with Simon Mayo. This is the first time in 20 years that a woman has co-hosted a Radio 2 daytime show. After an outcry over the shift, the station stated on October 22 that Mayo would be leaving Radio 2, with Whiley transferring back to an evening position.

Television career

Whiley broadcasts live coverage of major music events like the Glastonbury Festival. Little Angels, a BBC Three series, was also narrated by her. She joined the T4 (Channel 4) show Orange unsignedAct in October 2007, where she hunts for a band looking for a record deal. Jo has started hosting a music TV show on the TMF music channel. From late 1998 until late 2001, Whiley had her own music discussion show on Channel 4, The Jo Whiley Show, which lasted four seasons.

Whiley presented an episode of the Panorama documentary strand titled Are the Net Police Coming for You? on March 15, 2010, in which she discussed the Digital Economy Bill, a proposed new law aimed at people who illegally download music from the Internet.

Whiley co-hosted the BBC’s coverage of the Hampton Court Garden Festival in July 2021.