Kay Burley

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Kay Burley
Kay Burley 2009.jpg
Burley in 2009
Born Kay Burley
1961 (age 62–63)[1][2]
Wigan, Lancashire, England
Ethnicity English
Occupation Television presenter
Notable credit(s) TV-am, Sky News

Kay Burley (born 1961) is an English television newsreader and presenter. She has been a news anchor for Sky News since 1988.

Burley has hosted more hours of live television than any other news presenter.[3]

Early life

Burley was brought up in Beech Hill, Wigan, Lancashire[4][5] and was raised as a Catholic.[6]

Her first reporting job was at the Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle in Wigan at the age of 17.[1][2]

Broadcasting career

Burley presenting Sky News with Adam Boulton during the 2010 UK General Election.

Burley worked in BBC local radio and TV, including Tyne Tees Television,[1] before joining TV-am in 1985 as a reporter and occasional newsreader. From 1987, she presented TV-am's first hour, filling in for Caroline Righton and covering for Anne Diamond during her maternity leave.[7]

Burley was recruited by Andrew Neil,[8] and joined Sky Television, launching the Sky One Entertainment Channel in November 1988 with her own documentary The Satellite Revolution.[1] She moved to the fledgling Sky News in 1988.

Among her assignments, she fronted Sky News coverage from Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and subsequent tsunami. In 2005, she was prominent in Sky News's coverage of both the General Election and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, and in 2013 was prominent in the coverage of the birth of Prince George of Cambridge.

Burley is known for presenting news coverage on Christmas morning on Sky News.[9]

Burley is an occasional contributor to the tabloid Sunday Mirror, and in the summer of 2006 appeared occasionally on Channel 5's news bulletins.

She has appeared as a stand-in for Iain Dale on his Sunday Politics show on London talk radio station LBC 97.3.[10]

Burley joined LBC Radio on 23 March 2014 along with The Sun’s Managing Editor Stig Abell to present a show from 8–11am on Sundays.

Writing

Burley's first novel, First Ladies, was published on 12 May 2011.[11] The book is an erotic romance set in the media industry, including television news.[12] According to one reviewer, it's a "turgid mess" which isn't even bad enough to be good: "Unfortunately, this book, with its dire comic timing, complete absence of irony, pointless digressions, dull plotting and complete lack of any engaging characters, is so mind-numblingly, fist-chewingly awful, that it’s just bad."[13]

Burley's latest novel, Betrayal, was released in May 2012.[14]

Criticism

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Reporting as part of Sky News's coverage of the September 11 attacks in Manhattan, Burley claimed that "the entire eastern seaboard of the United States has been decimated by a terrorist attack".[15][16]

In February 2010, Burley was forced to apologise on-air for offending Catholics when she joked that US Vice President Joe Biden, who had ashes on his forehead to mark Ash Wednesday, had a "large bruise" that he had picked up from "walking into a door" or from slipping on ice during his recent trip to Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics.[17]

On 5 October 2012, Burley was accused of insensitivity after she broke the news of the probable death of missing five-year-old April Jones live on air to volunteers who had been assisting in the search for her. The interviewees were unaware that the case had become a murder inquiry.[18][19][20]

In June 2015 Burley was criticised through social media for her interview of Nick Varney, the CEO of Merlin Entertainments. This followed an accident on The Smiler ride at Alton Towers, which led to injuries for 11 of the 16 passengers. Responses to her behaviour dubbed it "disrespectful to everyone involved" and an "outright attack".[21] In response Burley tweeted "For those concerned I was hard on Alton Towers boss, he'll get over it. Not sure those on his ride will be so quick to recover".[22] Her interview with Varney began a negative reaction over social media, prompting 1,816 complaints to Ofcom and also led to over 55,000 signatures on a petition to have Burley sacked.[23][24] Ofcom declined to launch a formal investigation into the interview.[25]

Dancing on Ice

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Burley was a contestant for the second series of the ITV reality television show Dancing on Ice, beginning on 20 January 2007.[26] She was skating for MacMillan Cancer Care, in memory of her mother, who had died of breast cancer.[27] She donated her appearance fee to the charity. Burley went out of the show in the fifth week following a skate-off.[28][29]

Personal life

Burley is twice divorced and has one son from a one-year marriage to Steve Kutner, a football agent.[30]

References

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  3. ↑ Biographies - Kay Burley Sky News
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  9. ↑ Kay's a winner working Xmas The Sun, 3 August 2007
  10. ↑ Kay Burley to present shows on LBC 97.3 over Christmas TV Newsroom, 1 December 2012
  11. ↑ Amazon - Kay Burley, First Ladies Amazon.co.uk; Retrieved 28 March 2011
  12. ↑ Kay Burley delivers literary lesson in romance guardian.co.uk, 28 March 2011
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  27. ↑ Dancing On Ice 2007: Kay Burley Dedicates Dance To Deceased Mum Unreality TV, 19 January 2007
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  29. ↑ Dancing On Ice: Ulrika Jonsson Turns Frosty With Kay Burley! Unreality TV, 14 January 2007
  30. ↑ Sky News presenter Kay Burley brands colleague 'staggeringly sexist' live on air Mail Online, 18 July 2009

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