Family
Dimbleby is the son of the World War II war correspondent Richard Dimbleby, who was later to become presenter of the BBC TV current affairs programme Panorama, and a younger brother of David Dimbleby, also a current affairs commentator and presenter of BBC programmes. Jonathan wrote a biography of his father in 1975.
For thirty-five years, Dimbleby was married to fellow author Bel Mooney. They have two adult children, Kitty, who works for the charity Help For Heroes and Daniel, a television producer. In 2003 he began a relationship with the operatic soprano, Susan Chilcott with whom he lived until her death from breast cancer three months later, in September, 2003. The following year the Dimblebys announced their separation. In 2007 he married Jessica Ray. They have two children, Daisy (3) and Gwendolen (1).
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