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Ulrika Jonsson confesses she didn't know anything about meteorology when weather girl

Ulrika Jonsson has confessed that she didn't have a clue what she was talking about during her stint as a weather reporter.

The 54-year-old presented the weather news on Good Morning Britain in 1989 but admitted that she was clueless when it came to meteorology.

Appearing on E4's Celebs Go Dating where Ulrika hopes to find love, she was very honest about her former job.

Receptionist Tom Read Wilson asked Ulrika: "So, how much do you have to know about meteorology?"

To which, she replied: "The weather presenters you have on the BBC and ITV are trained meteorologists but I was a weather girl so I didn't really understand what I was saying!"

Ulrika Jonsson admitted that she didn't know much about the weather (Pictures in Mind / Scope Features)

Narrator Rob Beckett then joked: "What's next? The gladiators weren't real gladiators!"

In January last year she returned to Good Morning Britain to host the weather again, giving viewers a blast from the past.

Viewers were in stitches after the star struggled to tell her north from her south.

She chatted to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid about her last stint on breakfast TV.

She used to present the weather for Good Morning Britain in the 80s (TV Grab)

"Probably the last time might have been 31 years ago, I might have been once before.

"I think I had no idea what to expect when I started I was 21 and you were told to talk as much as you could about your personal life because you were giving a piece of yourself.

"Nowadays people have a greater understanding of what that means and what the consequences of that is."

Ulrika is looking for love on Celebs Go Dating (E4)

The unlucky-in-love TV star said she'd joined the Celebrity Dating Agency to meet a man who will treat her as a "normal person".

She told BANG Showbiz: "“At some point it would be nice to have someone in my life.

“But when dating It’s a weird thing when they know more about you then you know about yourself and they’re telling you about yourself.

“There is an imbalance there and you basically want to find somebody who’s not phased by who you are, who just treats you like a normal person so you’re on an even playing field.”

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She admitted that whilst she didn't love the idea of dating apps, she understood it was "the modern way".

"Dating apps are not an organic way of meeting people at all but they are the modern way.

“I don’t go out, so unless you’re putting yourself out there then it’s hard to meet people.

“You meet people when you go to work or whatever, I don’t go into an office five days a week. I don’t come into contact with different people.

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Ulrika was married for 11 years (Channel 4)

"So it is definitely a numbers game. I think you've got to learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff.”

She has been on several dates since her marriage to Brian Money came to an end after 11 years.

She said that she struggled with a lack of intimacy in her marriage, adding that despite looking into the issues she "never got any answers".

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