Kay Burley
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Kay Burley is an English television newscaster. She currently anchors the Lunchtime Live programme on Sky News.
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[edit] Biography
Kay Burley was born in 1961 in Wigan. Her first reporting job was at the Evening Post and Chronicle in Wigan at the age of 17. She worked in local radio and TV, including Tyne Tees Television before joining TV-am in 1985 as an occasional reporter. From 1987 she presented TV-am's first hour, filling in for Caroline Righton and covering Anne Diamond's maternity leave[1].
When TV-am closed down, she joined Sky Television, launching the Sky One Entertainment Channel in November 1988 with her own documentary "The Satellite Revolution". She moved to the then fledgling Sky News in 1988 and has since become one of the most recognizable figures in British satellite news broadcasting. Burley received some notoriety during Sky News' coverage of the September 11 attacks when she said, "If you're just joining us, the entire eastern seaboard of the United States has been decimated by a terrorist attack."[2]. Among many noteworthy assignments she was the face of Sky News coverage from the disaster zone after the S.E. Asian tsunami in 2004-2005 and was prominent in the Sky coverage of the 2005 General Election.
Kay is also known for presenting news coverage every Christmas morning on Sky News, a tradition she has upheld for the last 16 years[3].
Burley is also an occasional contributor to the tabloid Sunday Mirror and since the summer of 2006 she has appeared on Five's news bulletins.
[edit] Personal Life
Burley is divorced and has one son, Alexander (b.1993) from a one year marriage to football agent of Frank Lampard, Steve Kutner. She has been dating Sun Newspaper political editor George Pascoe-Watson[4], and despite rumours of a split, The Sun tabloid newspaper of 20 January 2007 refers to her living with her partner, a Sun journalist. Burley is an avid Arsenal fan.
A vivacious redhead, Burley is generally considered a sex symbol, having been voted What Satellite TV magazines' "Most Desirable Woman on TV" for three consecutive years as well as appearing in countless other "sexiest women"/"sexiest presenter" lists and she remains popular with the male audience despite there being no shortage of younger female news presenters. Even so, Kay has not capitalised on her sex appeal much, instead keeping a much more reserved image.
[edit] Dancing on Ice
Burley was a contestant for the second series of the ITV reality television show Dancing On Ice beginning 20 January [5]. She was skating for MacMillan Cancer Care, in memory of her mother who died of Breast cancer[6]. She also donated her appearance fee to the charity. Kay went out of the show on the 5th week as she faced a skate-off. [7][8].
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.tv-am.org.uk/presenters.asp
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1665901,00.html
- ^ http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006580205,00.html
- ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20050506/ai_n14619624
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds41169.html
- ^ http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/dancing-on-ice/dancing-on-ice-2007-kay-burley-dedicates-dance-to-deceased-mum/
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds41176.html
- ^ http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/dancing-on-ice/dancing-on-ice-ulrika-jonsson-turns-frosty-with-kay-burley/
