Jane Moore (born 17 May 1962) is an English journalist, writer, and television personality. She is a columnist for the tabloid The Sun and writes regular articles for the newspaper The Sunday Times. She was a panellist and anchor on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 1999 and 2002, returning as a regular panellist from 2013 onwards.[1] Since 2018, Moore has been regularly relief-anchoring Loose Women. In 2024, Moore appeared as a contestant on the twenty-fourth series of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Moore was a news editor for the Sunday Sport.[7] She has since worked as a columnist for The Sun and has written regular articles for The Sunday Times.[8] She has also written for Hello. In 2006, she was nominated for a British Press Award in the category of Columnist of the Year, but lost out to Lucy Kellaway.[9]
Moore was a panellist on the ITV chat show Loose Women between 1999 and 2002. She returned to the programme on 15 October 2013, having appeared on the panel ever since as well as regularly anchoring the show since 2018.[10][11]
In April 2002, Moore was a guest presenter on This Morning. She subsequently moved to the BBC and regularly contributed to Question Time (2002–2012), The Andrew Marr Show (2005–21), This Week (2003–2015) and BBC Breakfast. Moore guest presented The Wright Stuff in 2003 and 2004, and was a panellist in 2008. She guest presented the show again in February 2011.[12]
Moore set up the consumer website Youthejury.com in 2006, however the website was later registered defunct.[13] From 2006 to 2007, Moore was a team captain on the BBC Three programme Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, a comedy take on celebrity panel shows.[14] In July 2011, she presented the six-part BBC Two series Wonderstuff. Moore has also contributed to the Channel 4 programme Dispatches and has presented a number of online videos for the broadcaster.[15] She also revealed in October 2021 on an episode of Loose Women that she was briefly an estate agent.[16]
Moore married Gary Farrow, the former vice-president of communications at Sony Music Entertainment, in 2002. Elton John was the best man at their wedding.[19] Her husband owns a PR agency called The Corporation Group. They resided in Richmond,[20] with daughters[21] Ellie, Grace and Lauren, and their Tibetan terrier dog named Jasper.[9]
On 7 December 2022, while on-air on ITV'sLoose Women, Moore revealed that she and her husband were to separate, but that their amicable marital split had suffered a delay, due to Farrow's broken leg after a fall, and she was acting as a carer.[20]