Nina Hossain
Nina Hossain
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Hossain is currently employed on a freelance basis by ITN where she presents occasional bulletins for ITV News and ITV London's regional news programme London Tonight.
Hossain was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England in 1973. She is of mixed Bangladeshi and English parentage. Her father was, Dr Tabarek Hossain (1935–2002), originally from Bangladesh, who migrated to Britain in the 1960s, was a psychiatrist who specialised in alcoholism, he set up the Kirklees Alcohol Advisory Service in 1973 at the town centre, and was the founder and president of Concern For Mental Health in West Yorkshire. Her father married an English nurse, Pamela from Nottingham. Of her Bangladeshi parentage, she states that she has never visited Bangladesh, does not speak Bengali and does not cook curry, and that while her father never discussed religion, Hossain and her younger sister Rezina "were nominally Muslim".
Hossain's ambitions to be a journalist began at an early age. She has a degree from the University of Durham, (St Cuthbert's Society). She had previously worked as a presenter for BBC London News and for ITV Border on both sides of the camera. Hossain was the word pronouncer for Series 1 of Hard Spell, a BBC One spelling competition for children. She reprised this role in the one-off episode of spin-off Star Spell (similar to Hard Spell, but with celebrities instead of chldren), but when Star Spell became a full series, she had joined ITV and so was replaced by BBC newsreader Mishal Husain, who continued this role through the second series of Hard Spell.
In November 2004 she joined ITN as a freelance newscaster for ITV London's London Tonight and ITV News. During April 2010, she was also a guest presenter on GMTV, standing in for Lorraine Kelly.
In 2004, Nina appeared in the film Trauma which starred Colin Firth.
Nina now lives between London and the Midlands. Hossain is divorced from her former husband of eight years, Sky News editor Craig O'Hara. Hossain has been in a relationship with her current partner, and former editor of ITV's London Tonight regional news programme, Stuart Thomas since the spring of 2005, and together they have two children.
Hossain drew attention from the media in 2005 when she was mugged on London's South Bank, and for going to work the same day, saying that she did not consider it "a big deal". In January 2007, it was revealed that sex offender David Decoteau from London, 45, had an unhealthy interest in Hossain and that the he had also sent letters to BBC newsreader Emily Maitlis.
Hossain was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England in 1973. She is of mixed Bangladeshi and English parentage. Her father was, Dr Tabarek Hossain (1935–2002), originally from Bangladesh, who migrated to Britain in the 1960s, was a psychiatrist who specialised in alcoholism, he set up the Kirklees Alcohol Advisory Service in 1973 at the town centre, and was the founder and president of Concern For Mental Health in West Yorkshire. Her father married an English nurse, Pamela from Nottingham. Of her Bangladeshi parentage, she states that she has never visited Bangladesh, does not speak Bengali and does not cook curry, and that while her father never discussed religion, Hossain and her younger sister Rezina "were nominally Muslim".
Hossain's ambitions to be a journalist began at an early age. She has a degree from the University of Durham, (St Cuthbert's Society). She had previously worked as a presenter for BBC London News and for ITV Border on both sides of the camera. Hossain was the word pronouncer for Series 1 of Hard Spell, a BBC One spelling competition for children. She reprised this role in the one-off episode of spin-off Star Spell (similar to Hard Spell, but with celebrities instead of chldren), but when Star Spell became a full series, she had joined ITV and so was replaced by BBC newsreader Mishal Husain, who continued this role through the second series of Hard Spell.
In November 2004 she joined ITN as a freelance newscaster for ITV London's London Tonight and ITV News. During April 2010, she was also a guest presenter on GMTV, standing in for Lorraine Kelly.
In 2004, Nina appeared in the film Trauma which starred Colin Firth.
Nina now lives between London and the Midlands. Hossain is divorced from her former husband of eight years, Sky News editor Craig O'Hara. Hossain has been in a relationship with her current partner, and former editor of ITV's London Tonight regional news programme, Stuart Thomas since the spring of 2005, and together they have two children.
Hossain drew attention from the media in 2005 when she was mugged on London's South Bank, and for going to work the same day, saying that she did not consider it "a big deal". In January 2007, it was revealed that sex offender David Decoteau from London, 45, had an unhealthy interest in Hossain and that the he had also sent letters to BBC newsreader Emily Maitlis.
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