Karin Giannone
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Karin Giannone (born in 1977 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a television presenter in the United Kingdom. She presents BBC News 24. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 2.
Karin has established herself in television news, weather and sport. She was brought up in Kent after having moved to the UK from South Africa at the age of 2. She went to the Anglia region as a student at Cambridge University where she gained a first class honours degree in modern languages; she speaks French, German and Italian. She was the editor of the university’s "Varsity" magazine in 1994.
Later that year her language and broadcasting skills helped her land a high-profile role as a sports presenter for Channel 4’s Football Italia series, and she enjoyed a memorable season on the vibrant Italian soccer scene. Her real interest however remained in news reporting. "I always wanted to be a TV reporter and when I was small used to pretend I was Kate Adie," she says. She returned to Anglia in 2000 as a presenter and reporter, this time for the programme for the east of the region covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. Having worked in the Anglia region as well as for Sky News, Karin now works for the popular news outlet BBC News 24. Karin lives in London with her husband Neil.
Her interests include horse-riding in the Norfolk countryside, going to the gym a lot, scuba diving, travelling, eating out (especially Indian food) and watching lots of TV, with news, documentaries, and docusoaps her favourite programmes. Karin gave birth to a baby boy, Louis, on the 23rd of October 2003 and a daughter Beatrice in January 2006. [1]
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- She has a baby boy, Louis, born on 23rd of October 2003 and a baby girl, Beatrice, born in January 2006.
- Karin is fluent in English, French, German and Italian.
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