Jennifer is the daughter of Molly Gay (actress) and Hugo Rignold (composer).
She was only 14 when she began appearing as a BBC Children’s TV announcer from June 1949.
In December 1949, she announced the first children’s programmes transmitted from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter. She was also at the opening of Lime Grove Studios in May 1950.
Her final appearance, aged 17, was in May 1953. She left the world of television to take up ballet dancing and would later become involved with Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company and The Royal Ballet.
She returned to television as a reporter on ATV Today in the mid-1960s.
A press cutting from the Birmingham Evening News in February 1965, stated that Jennifer was leaving, as she couldn’t continue her on-screen work alongside secretarial duties and housekeeping for her father, who was then musical director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
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