Additionally during this time, they both took separate turns as stand-ins for fellow Children's ITV presenter Jerry Foulkes in the afternoons, when he was away on holiday.
On 2 January 1990 (following Foulkes' departure on 22 December 1989) Downs took over co-presenting the Children's ITV afternoons service, along with Scally.
[1][2] This followed a joint investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Fairfax Media in January 2018 where several allegations were made against McLachlan.
[1] Downs said she was compelled to speak out publicly about the alleged incident following the airing of a paid television interview on the Seven Network's Spotlight program where McLachlan accused his co-stars of fabrication due to their jealousy of his success.
She is involved with music production, songwriting, Jeanne also helped to devise and manage Pop Academy a 'pop school' at the ACM in Guildford, Surrey.