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14th January 2022
09:58am GMT

In 2019, she revealed:
"I basically choose my own outfit and some of the stuff I have worn in the past has been my own, I never even intended to put it on air because it was what I wore outside.
“The costume department in RTÉ are terrific as well. The camera makes you look bigger anyway, it puts on at least 10lbs and jackets make you look even bigger.
“It became a little bit more relaxed at one point and then I just decided, ‘OK, I’m a bit tired of the old jackets, I’ll wear one or two of my own things'.
“I don’t go out of my way to find new designers but I do go out of my way in my spare time to source things and put them together.
"My main thing is getting what I want and I like things that nobody else is wearing — one-off pieces.
“In the weather office, we have a blue screen so you can’t wear certain types of blue, not anything that’s like a royal blue. Certain patterns don’t work either, they have what you call a strobing effect, so the best things are block colours.”
Jean first appeared on the RTÉ weather forecast back in 1996 and had been a staple figure on our screens since.Explore more on these topics: