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Jeremy Paxman (Jeremy Dickson Paxman) was born on 11 May, 1950 in Leeds, England, is an English retired journalist, author and broadcaster (born 1950). Discover Jeremy Paxman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Jeremy Dickson Paxman
Occupation Broadcaster, journalist, author
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 11 May 1950
Birthday 11 May
Birthplace Leeds, England
Nationality Leeds

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Jeremy Paxman Height, Weight & Measurements

At 73 years old, Jeremy Paxman height is 191 cm .

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Height 191 cm
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

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Children 3

Jeremy Paxman Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jeremy Paxman worth at the age of 73 years old? Jeremy Paxman’s income source is mostly from being a successful Broadcaster. He is from Leeds. We have estimated Jeremy Paxman's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Broadcaster

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1920

Paxman was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of steel company employee and former Royal Navy lieutenant and typewriter salesman (Arthur) Keith Paxman, who left the family and settled in Australia, and Joan McKay ( Dickson; 1920–2009).

Keith Paxman's father was a worsted spinner, who became sufficiently prosperous as a travelling sales representative to send his son to public school in Bradford.

The Dickson family were wealthier, with Keith's father-in-law, a self-made success, paying the Paxman children's school fees.

Paxman is the eldest of four children: one of his brothers, Giles Paxman, was the British Ambassador to Spain (having previously been ambassador to Mexico), and the other, James, is chief executive of the Dartmoor Preservation Association.

His sister, Jenny, is a producer at BBC Radio.

Paxman was brought up in Hampshire, Bromsgrove, and Peopleton near Pershore in Worcestershire.

1950

Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English retired broadcaster, journalist, author, and television presenter.

Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper Varsity.

At Cambridge, he was a member of a Labour Party club and described himself as a socialist, in later life describing himself as a one-nation conservative.

1964

He went to Malvern College in 1964, and later read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the university student newspaper Varsity.

While at Cambridge, Paxman was briefly a member of the Cambridge Universities Labour Club.

He has since been made an honorary fellow of the College.

1972

He joined the BBC in 1972, initially at BBC Radio Brighton, relocating to London in 1977.

In following years, he worked on Tonight and Panorama, becoming a newsreader for the BBC Six O'Clock News and later a presenter on Breakfast Time and University Challenge.

Paxman joined the BBC's graduate trainee programme in 1972.

He started in local radio, at BBC Radio Brighton.

He moved to Belfast, where he reported on the Troubles.

1977

He moved to London in 1977.

Two years later he transferred from the Tonight programme to Panorama.

After five years reporting from places such as Beirut, Uganda and Central America, he read the Six O'Clock News for two years, before moving to BBC1's Breakfast Time programme.

1989

In 1989, he became a presenter for the BBC Two programme Newsnight, interviewing many political figures.

Paxman became known for his forthright interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians.

These appearances were sometimes criticised as aggressive, intimidating and condescending, yet also applauded as tough and incisive.

Paxman became a presenter of Newsnight in 1989.

1994

From its revival in 1994 up until he stepped down from the show in 2023, he presented University Challenge and its Christmas spin-off from 2011 to 2022.

In 2022, he announced he was standing down, as he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

1997

On 13 May 1997 he interviewed Michael Howard, who had been Home Secretary until 13 days earlier after he had held a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of Her Majesty's Prison Service, about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison, John Marriott.

Howard was asked by Paxman the same question – "Did you threaten to overrule him [Lewis]?"

– a total of twelve times in succession (fourteen, if the first two inquiries worded somewhat differently and some time before the succession of twelve are included).

1998

In 1998, Denis Halliday, a United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, resigned his post in Iraq, describing the effects of his own organisation's sanctions as genocide.

Paxman asked Halliday in a Newsnight interview, "Aren't you just an apologist for Saddam Hussein?"

2000

During a 20th anniversary edition of Newsnight in 2000, Paxman told Howard that he had simply been trying to prolong the interview because the next item in the running order was not ready.

2003

In February 2003, Paxman was criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Commission over a Newsnight interview in which he questioned the then Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy about his drinking.

The commission said that the questioning was "overly intrusive in nature and tone and had exceeded acceptable boundaries for broadcast".

2006

In January 2006, Paxman was the subject of an episode of the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?.

2014

In 2014, Paxman left Newsnight after 25 years as its presenter.

Since then, he has done occasional work for Channel 4 News.

The documentary concluded that he was descended from Roger Packsman, a 14th-century politician from Suffolk who had changed his name to Paxman to impress the electorate (pax being Latin for 'peace').

Paxman's maternal grandmother was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

The programme generated much publicity before its transmission by displaying him with tears in his eyes on camera when informed that his impoverished great-grandmother Mary McKay's poor relief had been revoked because she had a child out of wedlock.