Di Stewart
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Di Stewart (born January 18, 1979 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English television presenter. She currently appears on Sky Sports News and Sky Sports' golf show, Golf Night.
Stewart was educated at Stockport Grammar School from the age of five to eighteen. She then went to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she studied for a German degree. It was while she was at university that she carried on playing golf (which later became one of her passions) and netball.
Her first break came when she joined Galaxy Radio as part of their ground crew when they were based in the North East.
Stewart is a big golf fan. She first picked a set of clubs at the age of six and was soon representing Cheshire Girls' and Cheshire Ladies' teams – at 17 years old she had a handicap of 6. She played in the amateur teams during the Dunhill Links Championship in 2005.
She is the presenter of Sky Three's More Big Ideas, which is shown after the Sky One show The Big Idea, in which she speaks to the winner and losers of the show.
[edit] Joining Sky
After she left university, Stewart joined Mountview Academy for Theatre Arts for a year, where she studied for a post-graduate diploma in performing arts. She joined Sky on February 2003. Her first job was a runner for Sky's Spanish football coverage, and then a runner for the broadcasting company’s golf, tennis and boxing coverages. Stewart then became interested in presenting and undertook a screen test for Sky Sports News and then moved into the Sky Sports News department.
[edit] Trivia
- Stewart is a keen golfer, her current handicap is 10, but once was 6.
- She has a famous cousin in the form of Harlequins rugby star Will Greenwood.
- She has previously dated Jonny Wilkinson, the Newcastle Falcons, England and British & Irish Lions rugby star, also Declan Donnelly Of Ant and Dec fame.
- She joined Joss Ash, the new face of Braun, in their new poster campaign.
