Kate Garraway

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Kate Garraway (born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire on 4 May 1968) is a British television news presenter.

1 Career
2 Personal life
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Garraway went to Fitzharrys School in Abingdon, then graduated with a BA in English and History. Her broadcasting career began with BBC Radio Oxford, and by 1994, she had become an Independent Television News trainee journalist.

In 1995, Garraway moved to Central News as a production journalist, reporter, and news presenter. It was during her time there that she was noticed by Meridian Broadcasting's head of news who poached her (after seeing one of three minute bulletins) to become the main presenter on their night Meridian Tonight programme. This offered enough visibility on a wider stage to be selected as part of the team of presenters which launched the BBC's 24-hour rolling news channel, BBC News 24, a period which would include the anchoring of such stories as the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

In 1998, Nick Pollard, Head of Sky News, offered Garraway a new presenting role; she joined their breakfast programme, Sunrise, as their main anchor, covering stories such as the Kosovo crisis, the Paddington rail crash, the Turkish earthquakes, and the Iraq bombing.

In 2000, Garraway joined GMTV as a main presenter. During her time at GMTV, Garraway has presented a travel strand, Where on Earth? and presented live material from the Cannes Film Festival.

Garraway has also made numerous television appearances on shows such as:

Loose Women
Have I Got News For You
The Wright Stuff
hosting ITV's Too Many Cooks
presenting Beef Encounter for Channel 4 with Jon Snow (a current affairs special on the B.S.E. enquiry)

[edit] Personal life

Garraway lived in Oxfordshire before marriage, and now has a home in North London. She married Central TV producer Ian Rumsey in 1998, her former boss at Meridian TV in Kent around 1995 who was two years younger than her, but divorced in April 2002. She said it was due to his relationship with twenty-four-year-old Hannah Stewart-Jones (now Shellswell), a young TV reporter at his Oxford studio, which he denied. In July 2005, she announced on GMTV that she was engaged to psychotherapist Derek Draper whom she married later in the year, and covered in an OK! magazine exclusive. Draper is the former political aide to Peter Mandelson and was at the centre of the scandal known as Lobbygate. The couple celebrated the birth of their first child, a baby girl, Darcey, on 10 March 2006.

Her hobbies include scuba diving, bodyboarding, playing the clarinet, and movie-going. She is a Gillingham F.C. football fan.

[edit] Trivia

A committed smoker, Garraway was even photographed smoking during her pregnancy. She later apologised, and said it was due to stress ^[1]

Kate Garraway flew into a "rage" at a council planning meeting where she was told to alter a new extension, according to a report shown in the Daily Mail, and also shown on digitalspy