Rachel Katherine Schofield (born 13 March 1976 in Winchester, Hampshire) is an English career coach and former journalist and news presenter.
== Education ==
Schofield was educated at St Margaret's School, Exeter, an independent school for girls.
She obtained a first class degree in Modern European Languages (French, German and Italian) at Durham University (St John's College), where she joined Purple FM. She was at Durham from 1994–98, spending a year in Vienna. From 1998–99, she did a Broadcast Journalism course at the London College of Printing (now called the London College of Communication).
== Radio and television career ==
She started her career at the BBC on BBC Radio Newcastle in 1999 and also reported for BBC Look North. She then moved to be a reporter for BBC Radio 4 before joining BBC News. Schofield resigned from her position in September 2012 although has returned on a freelance basis.
At the beginning of September 2020, she co-hosted the Jeremy Vine show for one week, standing in for the regular show co-host Storm Huntley.
== Personal life ==
She met the then Newsnight reporter Jeremy Vine in the run-up to the 2001 general election when he was touring Britain in a VW camper van. The couple married in 2002 and live in west London with their two daughters.
== References ==
== External links ==
Rachael Schofield at IMDb
Rachel Schofield Q and A's TV Newsroom
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