Rachel Katherine Schofield (born 13 March 1976 in Winchester, Hampshire)[1] is an English career coach and former journalist and news presenter.

[citation needed] She obtained a first class degree in Modern European Languages[2] (French, German and Italian) at Durham University (St John's College),[3] where she joined Purple FM.

Schofield resigned from her position in September 2012 although has returned on a freelance basis.

[2] She met the then Newsnight reporter Jeremy Vine in the run-up to the 2001 general election when he was touring Britain in a VW camper van.

The couple married in 2002 and live in west London with their two daughters.