{{Short description|English broadcaster}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Rachel Mackley | image =<!-- NOTE TO EDITORS: Do not replace the header image unless it is with a photo under a public domain or free license). Any fair use photos (i.e. promotional photos, album covers) are copyright violations and will be deleted. See Wikipedia:Fair use criteria --> | caption = | birth_date = 9 November 1982 <!-- 30 on 9 November 2012 --><ref name=kentnews>{{cite web|first=Chrissie |last=Daniels | title=BBC weathergirl Rachel Mackley opens up about life in Kent_1_1687207 |date=9 November 2012|url=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/bbc_weathergirl_rachel_mackley_opens_up_about_life_in_kent_1_1687207|publisher=kentnews.co.uk |accessdate=30 May 2014}}</ref> | birth_place = London | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = weather forecaster | partner = Oliver | children = 5 + 2 stepchildren | website = }} '''Rachel Mackley''' (born 9 November 1982) is an English broadcaster.
Mackley grew up in Yorkshire and studied Fine Art at Newcastle University.<ref>{{cite web|title=South East Today|year=2014 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfp8|publisher=bbc.co.uk|accessdate=30 May 2014}}</ref><ref name=kentnews/>
Following university, she worked in public relations in Edinburgh, before embarking on a journalism career in 2007 at Leeds Trinity and All Saints College with the help of an ITV bursary.<ref name=kentnews/>
After working for three years at ITV Anglia, Mackley moved to the BBC in 2011 on South East Today as the weather forecaster.
When the Aegon International tennis tournament returned to Eastbourne in East Sussex to celebrate its 40th anniversary, Mackley took part in a celebrity match on 17 June 2014. Prior to the match, she was coached by Leon Smith and presented a short section on the tournament on South East Today.<ref>{{cite news|title=Aegon International tennis tournament marks 40th anniversary|date=29 May 2014 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-27629987|publisher=bbc.com|accessdate=30 May 2014}} </ref>
==Personal life== Mackley, her partner Oliver and their children<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/rachel_mackley/?hl=en|title=instagram page|accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref> live in London.<ref name=kentnews/>
On 19 February 2016 Mackley fainted live on air.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ok.co.uk/tv/518162/bbc-weather-presenter-faints-on-live-tv|publisher=ok.co.uk/|title=BBC Weather presenter Rachel Mackley faint on live TV|accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12169303/BBC-weather-presenter-faints-on-live-TV.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223100508/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12169303/BBC-weather-presenter-faints-on-live-TV.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 23, 2016|title=BBC weather presenter faints on live TV|newspaper=telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
Mackley is keen runner and took part in the Hampton Court Half Marathon 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sussexsportphotography.blogspot.com/2017/02/hampton-court-half-marathon-2017-now.html|publisher=sussexsportphotography.blogspot.com|title=Hampton Court Half Marathon 2017 now live |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
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==External links== *http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2Zt0fVM6YH42zFxCtPBbn6V/presenters
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