Keeley Donovan

Keeley Emma Donovan (born 14 May 1983) is an English news and weather presenter. She works for the BBC on local television and radio in the Yorkshire and the Humber region on BBC Look North and BBC Radio Humberside. On 1 August 2013, she appeared on BBC One documentary Urban Jungle as a presenter looking at local wildlife including bats in Hull.

Early life

Born in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, Donovan grew up in Tetney, near Grimsby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. Her father, Terry Donovan, was from Liverpool and played professional football, briefly representing the Republic of Ireland at international level. Her late Irish grandfather, Don Donovan, also represented Grimsby Town and the Republic of Ireland.^[1] He managed Boston United from 1965–9. She also has a younger sister, Kirsty.

She attended the Humberston School on Humberston Avenue in Humberston.^[2] At the age of 14 she presented programmes for Channel 7 Television, a local cable TV channel based in Immingham and affiliated to the Grimsby Institute. She did a course in Media at Grimsby's Franklin College, then studied for a BA at De Montfort University in Leicester. She returned to Grimsby to do a post-graduate Skillset Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Grimsby Institute in conjunction with East Coast Media.

Career

Donovan worked freelance for the BBC from 2005, originally starting in Hull. She also started out at Propeller TV in Grimsby from 2006. She has recently studied at the Met Office and the BBC Weather Centre and is now a full-fledged weather presenter. She often does the breakfast and weekend bulletins for the Look North programmes in Leeds and Hull, being based at the BBC Centre in Leeds. She is also a presenter on the daytime show Break-in Britain, which started in September 2015, on BBC1.

See also

• Lisa Gallagher
• Paul Hudson

References

External links

• BBC Look North