Jenni Falconer
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Midpoint, Gabby Logan sits down with broadcaster Jenni Falconer to talk about longevity, reinvention, and staying relevant in an ever-evolving media industry.
With a career spanning decades across television and radio and now presenter of Smooth radio breakfast show, Jenni has become one of the UK’s most recognisable and trusted voices. From live TV presenting to the discipline of early-morning radio, she shares what it really takes to build a lasting broadcasting career — the resilience behind the scenes, adapting to change, and maintaining confidence in a competitive, youth-focused world.
Alongside her media career, Jenni is also a passionate endurance runner (as displayed in he podcast 'RunPod'), and she reflects on how fitness has shaped her mindset both on and off air. For her, running isn’t just about physical strength — it’s about mental clarity, structure, and stamina, qualities that have supported her through career highs, industry shifts, and the challenges of midlife.
Together, Gabby and Jenni explore ambition, visibility, wellbeing, and why experience — combined with self-discipline and perspective — can be a powerful advantage at this stage of life.
A thoughtful and energising conversation about career endurance, personal resilience, and building strength in more ways than one.
Why not check out Jenni's health and wellness brand, Kollo (kollohealth.com) which contains award winning marine collagen or listen to more on her travel podcast, 'Routes'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Midpoint. My guest today has been a fixture of our media landscape for over three decades, starting out as a contestant on blind date. She's been a regular on GM TV for much of the 2000s hosted a lottery show. She's hosted ITV support programs for I'm a celebrity, and for the last 12 years, has been a regular on Global's award-winning radio stations from Hart to her job of the last two years hosting Smooth's Breakfast Show. And it's her passion for running marathons that's led her to hosting the podcast, The Running Show. She's just about to turn 50 literally in the next week, |
| 0:37.9 | but looks like she's managed to turn back the clock. So maybe her latest business venture into |
| 0:42.5 | collagen is something to do with it and her perennially youthful looks. I'm sure we're going to find |
| 0:47.4 | out. Let's go meet Jenny Faulkner. Jenny Fultner, welcome to the midpoint. |
| 0:55.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:56.0 | This is exciting because I listen to this quite regularly. |
| 0:58.7 | I listen to podcasts when I run, Gabby. |
| 1:00.7 | And if I'm on a long training run, I have your voice in my ear. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh dear. |
| 1:04.8 | Awful lot. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, that is very kind of you to say so. |
| 1:07.5 | We'll get on to your running very soon. |
| 1:09.0 | But the first thing we need to address is that we speak to you today, I think, about a week away from your actual 50th birthday. I know. This is the midpoint, is it? Yeah, well, the midpoint can be any age. I haven't said this for a while, but it can be any age from about 38 onwards according to the Economic and Social research council. But I think you're probably someone who's going to hit 100 because you seem to be going backwards in terms of your youthful appearance. |
| 1:33.6 | That might be to do with the collagen. We'll talk about that as well. |
| 1:36.8 | But maybe it's to do with you running. I don't know. How do you feel, though, at nearly 50? |
| 1:41.6 | Strange, isn't it? Because you spend all your years dreading 30 and 40 and now coming up to 50. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm not fearful of that kind of new chapter. |
| 1:51.0 | In fact, it's almost like I feel more empowered now. |
| 1:56.0 | And you know previously you'd go and work out and you'd really look after yourself and |
| 2:00.0 | everyone would |
| 2:00.8 | see it as vanity. But I think actually all of that, I feel like it's all longevity now and everything's |
| 2:05.4 | changed and I'm enjoying the age I am. I'm more confident than ever which obviously we both work |
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