Overview
- Kirkwood left her BBC Breakfast role in April after a 28‑year weather‑presenting career to focus on married life and a freer timetable.
- She and her husband had comprehensive Bupa health assessments that returned normal physical, blood and heart tests but showed only an average fitness level.
- On the strength of the checks she has restarted Couch to 5K, added weight training including lunges and squats, and set a goal to improve thigh strength to reduce fall risk.
- The couple have already travelled to the US and Italy and have a long bucket list of destinations including Nashville, New Orleans, the Taj Mahal and Australia.
- Kirkwood says recent losses of family and friends to cancer spurred the checks and lifestyle focus, and one outlet reports she is working with Bupa on healthy‑ageing messaging although that collaboration has not been widely corroborated.