{"id":649502,"date":"2026-06-20T20:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649502\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:26:15","slug":"who-are-jon-snows-children-inside-the-channel-4-stars-family-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649502\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Jon Snow’s children? Inside the Channel 4 star’s family life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news presenter is set to share his Alzheimer’s journey in his new Channel 4 documentary\"Jon<\/p>\n

Jon is set to share his Alzheimer’s journey on his new Channel 4 documentary (Image: CHANNEL 4)<\/p>\n

Jon Snow spent over three decades becoming one of the nation\u2019s most trusted broadcasters.<\/a><\/p>\n

The TV star was the face of Channel 4<\/a> News from 1989 to 2021. He decided to step down from his role after 32 years to focus on \u2018longer-form projects\u2019.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old broadcaster has been flooded with support in recent weeks after sharing he was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> back in 2023.<\/p>\n

Jon is set to share his journey in an upcoming Channel 4 <\/a>documentary, Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, which is set to air tonight (June 20).<\/p>\n

Before he takes us behind the scenes of his diagnosis, find out all you need to know about his family life.<\/p>\n

Who is Jon Snow\u2019s wife?\"Jon<\/p>\n

Jon is married to epidemiologist and entrepreneur Precious Lunga (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Jon is married to his wife, Dr Precious Lunga. The 51-year-old is an epidemiologist and entrepreneur from Zimbabwe, who left the African country aged 17 to study in the UK.<\/p>\n

She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1998 with a degree in neuroscience, before completing a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Cambridge in 2003.<\/p>\n

The couple first met in 2001 on the Caribbean island of Mustique, where they tied the knot nine years later in 2010.<\/p>\n

Who are Jon Snow\u2019s kids?<\/p>\n

Jon has three children: Freya, Leila and a baby boy. The TV journalist had his first two children with human rights lawyer Madeleine Colvin, whom he was in a relationship with for 35 years.<\/p>\n

The star welcomed his third child via surrogacy wife Precious in 2021.<\/p>\n

Leila<\/p>\n

Leila is Jon\u2019s oldest child. The 42-year-old used to run a tea room called High Tea of Highgate before the business closed in March 2018.<\/p>\n

The tea room was very popular before its closure and even received a review from Snow himself, tweeting in 2015: \u201cSunny coffee at my daughter Leila\u2019s cafe High Tea in London\u2019s Highgate\u2026 not bad at all in fact delightful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freya<\/p>\n

Freya is Jon\u2019s youngest daughter and second child with Colvin. The 38-year-old is a lawyer specialising in social issues and is believed to have a particular interest in defending protest cases.<\/p>\n

Speaking of his two eldest children in a 2016 interview with The Guardian, Snow said: \u201cI have an incredibly close relationship with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t dare to give any parenting advice because I don\u2019t pretend to be an expert myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I do worry that kids these days are too glued to their electronic devices and I worry about the negative issues that come from that, such as cyberbullying, peer pressure and sexting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to go back to basics, reading to children at night, because it\u2019s an invaluable bonding experience and gives them a thirst for learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jon\u2019s<\/p>\n

Jon\u2019s youngest child is a baby boy, born via surrogacy in March 2021<\/p>\n

Baby boy<\/p>\n

Jon\u2019s youngest child is a baby boy, born via surrogacy in March 2021.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the birth, the Channel 4 star said: \u201cIn our desire to seal our now 11 years of marriage with a baby, my wife suffered numerous medical setbacks and miscarriages.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, we will always be deeply grateful to our surrogate, who carried our embryo to term. Amid these challenging times, we feel doubly blessed to be able to celebrate our good fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jon Snow: A Last Big Story will air on Channel 4 on Saturday 20 June at 8pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news presenter is set to share his Alzheimer’s journey in his new Channel 4 documentary Jon is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1633,96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-channel-4","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}