Transgender news reporter returns to ITV after six year double life as both successful PR woman and caring family man
India Willoughby spent £14,000 on gender reassignment surgery and is now back on TV as a freelance
TRANSGENDER telly reporter India Willoughby has returned to the screen six years after quitting as a man.
She left ITV Border to live a double life while suffering depression.
During the week she worked as a PR woman in Newcastle, then returned to the family home in Cumbria as Jonathan to be father to her teenage son.
After five years she spent £14,000 on gender reassignment surgery and is now back on TV as a freelance.
India, 51, said: “It is about being born into the wrong body. It’s like having an Android brain and an Apple body — they don’t sync.”
India told her son, then 16, in a letter she handed him after a meal out.
Now living as a single mum, she recalled: “He said, ‘It changes nothing. You’re still my parent.’
“He and his mother have been so supportive and ITV have been fantastic.”
ITV said: “We’re pleased to have India on the Border and Tyne Tees reporting team.”
