Steven Jacobs (born 8 January 1967) is an Australian actor, comedian, TV and radio presenter and writer. Jacobs is best known as weather presenter on the

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's breakfast program ''

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'' and ''

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'' and has previously been a radio presenter with ''

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.''

Career

Jacobs was born in

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, the son of

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immigrant parents. Before he made it to national television, he hosted a children's news program known as ''Kids News'', which was produced at

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studios in

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. Following this, Jacobs started his career in radio, presenting a weekly Top 40 music countdown. He has since appeared in many

productions, the first notable one being '' All Together Now'', which aired from 1991 to 1993. In 1992, he co-hosted the short-lived Saturday morning program ''Saturday At Rick's''. With

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, Jacobs co-hosted the series ''Just Kidding!'' and ''What's Up Doc?'' in the early 1990s. Jacobs worked as a comedy writer for the reincarnation of ''

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'' variety show and also featured prominently as a performer in this show. Jacobs became the on-location weather presenter for ''Today'' in January 2005, when he took over from

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. In April 2008, along with his ''Today'' weather commitments, Jacobs hosted the Australian version of US game show ''

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''. The show was subsequently axed after airing only two episodes. In April and August 2009, Jacobs presented weather on ''

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'' in place of

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'' while

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was away. In December 2016, Jacobs announced that he would leave ''Today'' to spend more time with his family. In 2017, he swapped places with

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and became the weather presenter on ''

''. In August 2018, Jacobs returned to ''Today'' to fill in for

while she was away on holidays. It was announced at this time that Jacobs would be a presenter on the Nine Network's new travel series ''Helloworld'' for its first season, which aired on 7 October 2018 with Jacobs hosting in Vanuatu. But he,

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and Lauren Phillips were replaced by

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on the

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. In January 2019, it was announced that Jacobs would return to ''Today'' as weather presenter. Jacobs again departed the show in December, replaced by Tim Davies. In April 2020,

announced Jacobs would present a new

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program on

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, 4BH, 6GT and

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from 27 April. He remained host until January 2022. In September 2024, Jacobs joined Sky News Weather as a presenter.

Personal life

In February 2009, Jacobs announced his engagement to Rose Kelly, a presenter on

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, once his divorce was finalised with previous wife of nine years, Alison; they married in Bali in May 2010. In November 2010, he announced on ''Today'' that Rose was pregnant with their first child and in May 2011, she gave birth to daughter. In April 2013, Rose gave birth to the couple's second daughter. In March 2018, Jacobs said that he and Rose had split after seven years of marriage. Jacobs returned to Australia following the split, after living in Vanuatu for the previous year.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Steven 1967 births Living people Australian male comedians Australian male television actors Australian people of Dutch descent Australian television newsreaders and news presenters People from Wollongong