- Born
- Birth nameEva Ulrika Jonsson
- Height1.70 m
- Ulrika Jonsson is a United Kingdom-based Swedish television presenter and model.
She became known as a TV-am weather presenter, moved on to present Gladiators, and became a team captain of the show Shooting Stars.
After working as a secretary, Jonsson began her television career on TV-am in 1989, as a weather presenter on Good Morning, Britain. From 12 September 1989, she was the weather presenter for Swedish TV3, broadcasting from London. In 1991, she co-presented the short-lived daytime quiz show Who's Bluffing Who?, and starred in the French film, The Annunciation of Marie (1991). In 1992, she moved into mainstream presenting and played host to numerous shows including Gladiators, The National Lottery Draws plus two major international broadcasts in 1998 and 1999, the Eurovision Song Contest and Miss World respectively. She also modelled for Playtex Lingerie during this period and was a team captain on the BBC TV quiz show Shooting Stars. In 2002, she was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary, Ulrika Jonsson: the Truth About Men. The programme featured a candid interview with Jonsson, received heavy press attention and attracted 2.8 million viewers.- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpousesBrian Monet(March 8, 2008 - April 2019) (divorced, 2 children)Lance Gerrard-Wright(August 9, 2003 - 2006) (divorced, 1 child)John Turnbull(September 29, 1990 - 1995) (divorced, 1 child)
- In her 2002 autobiography she alleged she had been raped by a famous television presenter many years earlier. She did not name him but John Leslie was accidentally named in connection with it by Matthew Wright on his Channel 5 series The Wright Stuff (2000). Leslie's career never recovered, even though he was never charged.
- Granddaughter of famous Swedish opera-singer Folke Jonsson.
- Husband Lance proposed to her on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in London on May 1, 2003.
- Emigrated to the UK in 1979.
- In 2009, she won series 6 of Celebrity Big Brother (2001).
- "25% of women have been victims of domestic violence - and I'm one of them" - speaking in support of campaign targeting domestic abuse.
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