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Sara Blizzard - Profile Sara Blizzard Index Sara Blizzard Biography Sara Blizzard Gallery (images/pictures) Sara Blizzard Profile I trained in all aspects of dance and drama at Pattison's Dancing Academy and College in Coventry and I think my family often thought I would end up with a career on the stage. I did get the chance to appear in Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with a rather naughty donkey who always charged across the stage and in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Coventry Apollo Theatre - but that is as far as it went.

My first taste of broadcasting came when I joined a local hospital radio station at Walsgrave General and I was given the chance to present a regular Sunday afternoon programme "Sentimental Sunday".

At the same time I was working behind the scenes at Mercia FM -- the independent local radio station for Coventry.

A year later I was chosen to present the "Two Guy's and a Girl" Breakfast Show on Leicester Sound working with two fellow presenters aptly named Guy.

The show was a lot of fun with one favourite bit of mine where I got to interview a number of different celebrities in a Jacuzzi (with the help of sound effects of course).

I remember turning up one day at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester to interview an up and coming band who were new to the music world. I later discovered I had interviewed a very young Ronan Keating and Shane from Boyzone!

A while later, Live TV based in Canary Wharf called me in for a screen test and I was offered a job working as a newsreader/reporter at one of their affiliates in Liverpool.

Talk about a baptism of fire! My first day on screen was the day of the Grand National bomb scare, I had never been in front of a TV camera before and there I was broadcasting live from the main entrance at Aintree for 6 hours, I have to admit my knees didn't stop knocking until I got home in the evening.

Nothing compares to the adrenaline rush you get doing live television (I know now how Bridget Jones felt).

During my time with LIVE I presented a number of programmes from Vets and Pets to Live Drive. The one I became very involved with was the local Crimestoppers programme "Merseybeat". It gave an in-depth insight into policing on Merseyside and in return Merseyside Police Force made sure I experienced every aspect of their work.

I joined BBC East Midlands Today in 1999 replacing Lisa Dransfield as the main weather presenter and after training at Television Centre I was soon working on the lunchtime programme and on East Midlands Today.

I really do enjoy the job because it is so varied and always live.

We do not have an auto-cue to rely on during the forecast and we also have to talk for what ever duration is required so it always keeps us on our toes.