Background
Jones was born in Downend, Bristol.
Jones was born in Downend, Bristol.
She attended The Ridings High School, a large secondary school located in the village of Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire.
Having competed in athletics (400m, long jump, cross country) and gymnastics at school, aged 17 she learnt to ski on the dry ski slope in Churchill, Somerset, after they offered free skiing lessons. After leaving college Jones spent a season working as a chalet maid in Tignes, France, beginning a cycle of snowboarding in the winter and surfing in the summer in Devon and Cornwall, which she funded via part-time jobs including inspecting cardboard in a factory and teaching fencing to children. In August 2013 Jones scored her first podium finish in a round of the FIS Snowboard World Cup, winning a silver in slopestyle in the 2013-2014 season opening meeting in New Zealand.
In October 2014 she started presenting Jenny Jones" Extreme, a monthly radio series for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live showcasing extreme sports.
In December 2014 she was announced as one of the coaches for the second series of Channel 4"s celebrity winter sports competition The Jump.