Who is Owain Wyn Evans? | Owain Wyn Evans Biography and Wiki
Owain Wyn Evans is a Welsh journalist, broadcaster and award-winning television presenter, currently working for the BBC as a weather presenter for television and radio services in England. He is the senior weather presenter for the flagship nightly news program North West Tonight.
Owain Evans went viral on social media after he finished his forecast and filmed himself playing the drums to the BBC News theme tune.BBC North West Tonight presenter Owain Wyn Evans tweeted: “When they said try working from home I didn’t realize they’d expect me to do the music too.”
Owain Wyn Evans Age and Birthday
Owain Wyn Evans with his partner Dr. Arran EvansOwain Wyn Evans is 36 years as of 2020. He was born on 9 March 1984 , in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. He celebrates his birthday on 9th March every year.
Owain Wyn Evans Height and Weight
Wyn Evans appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.
Owain Wyn Evans Parents
After doing our research, details about her parents are not available and it is also not known if she has any siblings.
Owain Wyn Evans Wife | Married
Evans is openly gay, he is happily married to his partner Dr. Arran Evans. They exchanged in March 2017, in London. He has spoken out about homophobic abuse received on Twitter for his presenting style and continues to be vocal in his support the LGBTQ community. He has been featured on the Pinc List, a list of the 40 most influential LGBTQ people from Wales in 2015, 2017, and 2018.
Owain Wyn Evans Facts and Body Measurements
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Owain Wyn Evans Journalist
Evans began his broadcasting career at the age of 18 when he became the presenter of Welsh-language children’s news programme, Feil. He has contributed to an array of programmes in Wales including S4C’s Welsh language programmes Stwnsh, Planed Plant, Salon, Uned5, I’m Eithaf and Wedi 7.
He then worked as a reporter, presenter and video journalist for BBC Wales and in 2012 he began presenting the weather on BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Wales Today. In 2015, he joined the weather and news presentation team for BBC Look North. In September 2019 it was announced that Evans would be the new lead weather presenter for BBC North West Tonight.
Owain Evans Social Media Videos
Evans has been credited for introducing short-form video forecasts on social media, having first produced these on the video-sharing platform Vine in 2013. He has developed these into GIF forecasts and stickers, which he regularly posts on social media platforms.
In 2017, Evans celebrated International Drag Day by giving a drag queen-themed forecast that pays tribute to drag queens and RuPaul’s Drag Race. In 2019 he worked with BBC Three and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK to film an updated version of the forecast, including the names of each contestant in the TV show ahead of the launch.
In the spring of 2017, it was reported that he would front his own show on BBC Radio York until August. Evans regularly co-presents alongside Carol Vorderman on BBC Radio Wales.
Owain Wyn Evans and Karamo Brown
In 2018, Evans collaborated with Netflix to produce a series of videos celebrating pride events across the UK with Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown.
Owain Evans Salary And Net Worth
The average salary for BBC News UK Senior Broadcast Journalist is $68235 per year, ranging from $65242 to $71077. However, these figures may vary substantially according to the level of seniority of the employee in question. At the moment, we do not have the exact salary and net worth of Owain Wyn Evans but we’ll keep tabs and update once it is available.
Owain Wyn Evans Awards and Achievements
In July 2019, Evans was awarded Best TV Presenter at the O2 Media Awards for Yorkshire and Humber.
