Michaela Strachan Height, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Family, Biography

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Age: 58 Years

Hometown: Ewell

Boyfriend: Nick Chevalier

Some Lesser Known Facts About Michaela Strachan

Michaela Strachan was raised by her parents in a middle-class British household.

Michaela Strachan’s childhood photo

She wanted to become a dancer all her life. She used to go to a local dancing school and did ballet, tap, modern dance, acrobatics, singing, and drama.

Before her TV career, Michaela Strachan started working in theatre and had a brief pop career with her song titled ‘Take Good Care of My Heart’ which reached number 66 on the UK Singles Chart in 1990.

After completing her course at the performing arts school in London in 1985, she appeared in the theatre musical ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ which was held at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

In 1986, Michaela Strachan started working as a co-presenter of the English children’s TV series titled ‘Wide Awake Club’ which was telecast on the TV-am channel.

In 1989, she released her English song titled ‘H.A.P.P.Y. Radio’ which reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart in that year.

In 1990, Michaela Strachan wrote and published her bibliography book titled ‘Michaela’s Marvellous Makes and Do’s (1990).’

In the early 2000s, Michaela Strachan moved to Cape Town, South Africa with her second husband and her son. Sharing her experience of moving to a different country, Michaela was quoted saying in an interview that

Although we have security issues, kids have a freedom within that. And for me it is a nice way of working because when I do a job in the UK it will be for a block of a few weeks. When I go home I can be a 100% hands-on mum.”
During her teenage years, Michaela Strachan suffered from an eating disorder named ‘Anorexia nervosa’ which made her lose a lot of weight. She considers herself lucky that she got herself better before it was too late.

In 1993, Michaela Strachan released her studio album titled ‘Songs from Grease’ in collaboration with Carl Wayne.

She has been a vegetarian since the age of 18 and has her own organic vegetable garden, carbon offsetting through tree planting, and investment in solar panels for green energy.

A year before she moved to London to study musical theatre, Michaela Strachan’s father lost his job and the entire family fell into a financial crisis.

Before starting a career in television, Michaela used to work as an ‘Avon Lady’ for the multinational company ‘Avon’ selling cosmetics, skin care, perfume, and personal care products.

She used to work for ‘kissogram’ (short for kissing telegram) which was a message delivered along with a kiss which was usually arranged as a humorous surprise.

In 2001, Michaela and Duncan Chard got divorced as Michaela wanted to have children and Duncan was not happy with that decision.

In 2003, Michaela Strachan met Nick Chevallier during a shooting in Cape Town, South Africa.

As soon as Michaela started doing well in the TV industry and started travelling more for her work, she started developing a series of stress-related allergy problems and one of them was a chronic skin condition named ‘Eczema.’ She was quoted saying in an interview that

The main one was eczema, which I started to get on my arms, my ear lobes and, most agonisingly, on the insides of my eyelids. The irritation was so intense that I couldn’t help rubbing my eyes. “
Eczema caused her to rub her eyes intensely which further resulted in warped eye pupils and she developed another condition called ‘Keratoconus’ which is a disorder of the eye that results in progressive thinning of the cornea. The eye condition made her wear very hard contact lenses to protect her eyes.

Michaela was told by the doctors that if she continues to rub her eyes intensely out of irritation, she could loose her eyesight permanently.

After Eczema and Keratoconus, Michaela Strachan developed patches of the autoimmune disease ‘Alopecia’ above both her ears about the size of two-pence coins.

She underwent a homoeopathic allergy test which resulted in her being allergic to dairy, potatoes, and formalin which is a chemical found in everything from paint to car fumes to cleaning products.

After a friend’s advice, Michaela Strachan consulted a Chinese doctor and after testing Michaela’s blood, it was found out that all her allergies resulted from her blood being at the wrong temperature.

She started taking Chinese medicines and all her allergies and diseases started to get cured.

In 2005, while shooting the first day for the English TV series titled ‘Elephant Diaries,’ Michaela found out that she started sneezing, her eyes started bulging, and she began developing a rash.

After consulting a doctor, she found out that she has an allergic reaction to elephants and she was quoted saying in an interview that

I’m allergic to elephants. Contact with them makes my eyes swell, I get rashes and start sneezing. At least when we’re filming an emotional scene, I look like I’m on the verge of tears already.”
In 2011, Michaela Strachan started working as a presenter of the annual BBC TV series titled ‘Winterwatch.’

Michaela Strachan (centre) in a still from the annual BBC TV series titled ‘Winterwatch’ (2011)

In 2013, she published her second book titled ‘Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures.’

The cover of Michaela Strachan’s second book titled ‘Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures’ (2013)

In 2014, shortly after taking part in the diving show ‘Splash!,’ Michaela Strachan discovered she had breast cancer during a routine mammogram. Surgeons advised her to have a double mastectomy since there was a risk of lobular cancer spreading from one breast to the other.

She underwent reconstructive surgery and worked as an ambassador for the United Kingdom-based charity ‘Breakthrough Breast Cancer.’

She loves to spend time with animals and she often shares photos and videos with her pet dog on social media.

Michaela Strachan with her pet dog Rio

In 2024, she took part in the ‘The Road through North Wales’ edition of the BBC Two television series titled ‘Pilgrimage.’

Michaela Strachan (third from right) with the entire presenting team of the BBC Two TV series titled ‘Pilgrimage’ (2024)

In 2025, Michaela took part in the seventeenth series of the British television series titled ‘Dancing on Ice’ and she was paired with the Scottish former competitive ice dancer named Mark Hanretty.

Michaela Strachan with her dance partner Mark Hanretty in a still from the seventeenth series of the British TV series titled ‘Dancing on Ice’ (2025)

Michaela Strachan has presented many TV shows and some of them include ‘The Hitman and Her’ (1988), ‘Saving Planet Earth UK’ (2007), ‘When Classic TV Goes Horribly Wrong’ (2020), ‘Extreme Conservation: The Maldives’ (2022), and ‘Ice Age: A Frozen World’ (2023).

Michaela Strachan (centre) in a still from the English TV show titled ‘Ice Age- A Frozen World’ (2023)

She has been part of many theatrical plays and some of them include ‘Cinderella’ (1986, 1991), ‘Aladdin’ (1987), ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1987-1988), ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ (1992-1993), and ‘Peter Pan’ (1993-2002).