Jilly Goolden (born 1956) is a well-known British wine critic, journalist and television personality. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of fruit, typically grapes though a number of other fruits are also quite popular - such as plum, elderberry and blackcurrant. ...

Married to Paul, they have three children; Auriel, 21, Verity, 20, and Phillip, 14. They live in Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Royal Tunbridge Wells (often called simply Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...

For 18 years Goolden co-presented the popular BBC2 Food and Drink television series in Britain, with Chris Kelly, Michael Barry and her good friend Oz Clarke (another oenophile). She is known for her outrageously abstract explanations of wine. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC and Europes first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ... Chris Kelly (born November 11, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey player. ... Michael Barry is a British chef and television personality who was a regular co-presenter on the BBC2 television show Food and Drink in the late-80s and 90s. ... Oz Clarke is a well-known British wine expert. ... An Oenophile (also known as a wine aficionado) is a person who appreciates or collects wine, particularly grape wines from certain regions, varietal types, or methods of manufacture. ...

Jilly Goolden appearing on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

Goolden has presented two television series on antiques for BBC1, The Great Antiques Hunt and Going, Going, Gone, and she has travelled extensively as a regular presenter on BBC1’s Holiday programme. During 2003, she was presenter on BBC1’s Holiday - You Call the Shots. In 2005, she appeared in a new Channel 4 series Extreme Celebrity Detox. She also appeared in ITV1's fifth series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!. Image File history File links JillyGoolden2. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ... The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Extreme Celebrity Detox was a Channel 4 reality television programme in which 15 British celebrities were sent to try a range of detox programmes, which aimed to enhance inner peace. ... ITV1 is a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... On location is the Jungle Dungay in northern NSW Im a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! is a UK reality television show in which minor celebrities live in jungle conditions with few creature comforts. ...

In 2004, the Radio Times included Goolden in a list of the top 40 most eccentric TV presenters of all time. [1] Current Radio Times logo Radio Times is the BBCs weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. ...

As well as books on food and drink, Goolden co-authored Your Hand - An Illustrated Guide To Palmistry (ISBN 0-434-98141-9) in the early 1980s.

External links

• Unofficial biography
• 'I'm a celebrity' profile
• Unreality TV - News of Jilly Goolden on I'm a Celebrity
• Jilly Goolden at the Internet Movie Database

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