Laura Tobin confessed she nearly didn’t become a meteorologist because she didn’t want to be labelled as a “weather girl”.
The Good Morning Britain star, 40, knew from the age of 14 that being able to determine the weather and climate was something she had a deep passion for.
Fast-forward 26-years and the mum-of-one TV personality has gone on to become one of the most loved and well-respected broadcast meteorologists in the UK, but it wasn’t always the path that she wanted to go down.
In her brand-new book, Every Day Ways To Save The Planet, Laura detailed her journey to becoming a weather whizz which originally started out in the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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The dedicated scientist confessed how to this day she still tries to avoid speaking in front of large crowds and has always been one to shy away from the camera despite working for ITV for more than nine years.
Now, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Star, the brunette beauty confessed how she first started searching for jobs that didn’t require speaking in front of large crowds.
She said: “I never actually wanted to be on telly, ever, because as soon as you’re a girl and you say, ‘I love the weather, I want to forecast the weather’ they just go, ‘Aww are you gonna be a weather girl?’
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“And I just thought, ‘Well, no’. There’s so many jobs that you can do in weather, it doesn’t just mean like pointing at a screen and I thought I didn’t want to do that.
“So, I did five years at the RAF and forecast pilots flights all over the world, that’s where I did my training and I just loved the variety from close weather forecasts to far away.
“They used to fly to Afghanistan, sometimes Australia, Falklands, Canada and it was just so cool to have that variety.”
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After several years working at the RAF base, the weather reporter was encouraged by her boss to take up a new position at the BBC.
Laura went on: “Then a job came up with the BBC because they were under the same contract and my boss was like, ‘It’s always good to give things a go’.
“He was like, ‘It’s just a six-month attachment and I thought, ‘Yeah, you know, again something different’, and then I went and I loved it.”
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As the star made her breakthrough into TV, she confessed that she managed to adapt quite quickly because she started with pre-recorded forecasts for BBC World meaning there was only one camera on her.
She explained: “I was never a fan and I’m still not really a fan of talking to lots of people but when you’re talking [in the studio], it’s not like you’ve got loads of eyes on you.
“It’s just one camera on you and then everyone else is getting ready for the next thing. So, it doesn’t feel like as much pressure.”
Now, after nine years working on the show, Laura has teased that she could even see herself moving onto the desk on the show in the future.
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