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Kate Garraway dancing with Anton Du Beke
Kate Garraway (born on 4 May 1968) from Abingdon, Oxfordshire is an English television news presenter.
Kate Garraway in Series Five
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Kate went to Fitzharrys School in Abingdon, and later to Bath University where she got her BA in English and History. Her broadcasting career began with BBC Radio Oxford. By 1994, she had become an Independent Television News trainee journalist.
She worked as a production journalist, reporter, and news presenter at Central News. Later she became the main presenter on their night Meridian Tonight programme. She was part of the team’s presenters which launched the BBC's 24-hour rolling news channel, BBC News 24.
Kate Garraway in Strictly Come Dancing Series 2007
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Kate was offered to present breakfast programme, Sunrise at Sky News in 1998. She covered stories such as the Kosovo crisis, the Paddington rail crash, the Turkish earthquakes, and the Iraq bombing.
Kate joined GMTV as a main presenter in 2000. Kate took part in the National Lottery show The People's Quiz in 2007, where she was a questioner.
Kate has made a number of television appearances on shows such as Loose Women, Have I Got News For You and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Kate married Central TV producer Ian Rumsey in 1998 but later divorced in April 2002. She got engaged to the psychotherapist Derek Draper in July 2005 whom she married later in the year and they had their first child, a baby girl, Darcey, on 10 March 2006.
Kate is to take part in series five of Strictly Come Dancing where she will be partnered with Anton Du Beke.
Kate’s unofficial fansite:
http://www.kategarraway.co.uk
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