Kate Smith (presenter)

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Kate Smith (b. Belleek, County Fermanagh) is a former Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. She was best known as a presenter and reporter for UTV Live.

Kate began her broadcasting career at Downtown Radio as a newsreader and reporter. She moved to Ulster Television in 1983 as a reporter on Good Evening Ulster. She was chosen as the main presenter of UTV's relaunched evening news bulletin, Six Tonight in September 1987, and went on to become one of the main presenters on UTV Live in 1993.

Kate hosted her last edition of UTV Live on Wednesday 20 December 2006. At the end of her final edition, a short montage of clips of Kate's presenting and reporting career at UTV was shown, before she thanked viewers for having her on their screens.

Kate is married to chef Michael Deane and they have one adopted son.