‘I just chilled out and realised how lucky I am’ – Jennifer Zamparelli on overcoming panic attacks

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Yesterday radio and TV  presenter Jennifer Zamparelli turned 41. It was her second  birthday in lockdown so in some ways it was the same as last year’s — she spent it with her husband Lau and their two small children Enzo, three, and five-year-old Florence, and spoke to her parents over FaceTime, given that they are outside her 5km.

But in other ways this is a very different time for the down-to-earth 2FM host. She is about to host a new family TV quiz on RTÉ but this time last year when she turned 40, she had what some might describe as a bit of a wobble.

It was the start of the pandemic and our lives as we knew them were thrown into a state of flux. Zamparelli had two small children at home and was presenting her radio show from her small