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Who is Jon Snow’s wife Precious Lunga and is he related to presenter Dan Snow?
Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow recently revealed that he has become a dad again at 73 years old.
He and his wife of over 10 years Precious Lunga welcomed a baby boy via surrogate, with Jon confirming the couple’s new arrival and insisting that they feel ‘doubly blessed’ to be starting a family together.
Jon said in a statement: ‘In our desire to seal our now eleven years of marriage with a baby, my wife suffered numerous medical setbacks and miscarriages.
‘Consequently, we will always be deeply grateful to our surrogate who carried our embryo to term. Amid these challenging times, we feel doubly blessed to be able to celebrate our good fortune.’
Who is Jon Snow’s wife Precious Lunga?
Their baby joy comes after Jon and wife Precious have been married for over a decade.
Precious, 46, is 27 years Jon’s junior and is an academic from Zimbabwe.
The epidemiologist and entrepreneur left Zimbabwe when she was 17 to go to university. She studied neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, before completing a PHD at Cambridge in 2003.
Precious is dedicated to researching HIV and was a founding member of Europrise – an association of HIV vaccine and microbicide researchers.
She has a seat on the board of the UK Medical Research Council thanks to her work with UNAIDS Geneva on their research trials for an anti-HIV microbicide.
Precious has also worked at the University of Cambridge’s Brain Repair Centre and given Ted talks on mobile technology, after finding medical app Afya Pap in 2016.
Has Jon Snow been married before?
No. Jon married for the first time at 62 years old, when he tied the knot with Precious in the Caribbean in 2010 on the island of Mustique – where they first met in 2001.
Their marriage is the first time both Jon and Precious have been married.
Jon, however, was in a relationship with human rights lawyer Madeleine Colvin for 35 years and the former couple share two daughters.
Is Jon Snow related to presenter Dan Snow?
Yes. The Very Hard Questions host is related to historian Dan Snow, who is known for presenting TV series such as 20th Century Battlefields.
Jon is Dan’s first cousin once removed, as he is the cousin of Dan’s father Peter Snow – a historian and radio and TV presenter, who is best known for presenting Newsnight between 1980 and 1997.
Father and son duo Peter and Dan have presented a number of documentaries together including Battleplan: El Alamein and Battlefield Britain.
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