Hayley McQueen

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Hayley McQueen
Born (1979-12-09) 9 December 1979 (age 44)
Manchester, England [1]
NationalityBritish
Occupation Television presenter
Years activepresent
Employer Sky Sports
Children1

Hayley McQueen (born 9 December 1979) is a British TV sports presenter, reporter, RTS award-winning producer, and event host. She is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News and the presenter of Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup. Prior to that, she hosted Sky Sports' flagship Saturday evening Football First Premier League highlights show Match Choice.

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McQueen is also an awards presenter and regularly hosts corporate events. Alongside her Sky work, she presented for Premier League TV worldwide and has appeared as a guest host on BBC 5 Live football phone-in show, as well as hosting duties for Radio X show The Kickabout, standing in for Johnny Vaughan. She is the former co-presenter of Sky Sports Champions League, as well as other Sky Sports football programming and once weekly Sportswomen programme. [2]

Early life

McQueen was born in 1979 in Manchester, and also lived in Scotland and Bangkok, before settling in Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire in 1994.[ citation needed ]

Television career

McQueen began her television career working as a runner and production assistant for Richard and Judy [3] before joining the television channel of Middlesbrough's Boro TV as a reporter and producer. She then joined Middlesbrough FC's "Football in the Community" scheme [2] before being head hunted by Sky Sports News where she became a presenter. [3]

She also presented on Fox Sports. [4] McQueen left Sky Television in December 2006 and took up a position on MUTV, [5] where she was main match day anchor and presented and produced the news, daily talk and match day live build up and phone-in shows as well as conducting regular interviews with players past and present. [6]

McQueen then hosted the Daily World Cup show for Al Jazeera Sports with Scott Minto throughout the 2010 tournament. [7] [8] She returned to Sky Sports in August 2010 as they launched Sky Sports News in HD. [2] [9]

Personal life

McQueen is the daughter of former footballer Gordon McQueen. [10]

She was engaged to German-born model and actor Kirk Newmann in 2018. [1] She gave birth to daughter on 3 October 2019. [11]

She supports Manchester United. [12] [13]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Hayley Lands Top Sky Role". Middlesbrough FC. 27 July 2010. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  3. 1 2 Hayley McQueen Sky Sports
  4. ↑ Top 10: Hottest Women On British TV Ask Men UK
  5. ↑ MUTV gets a makeover ManUtd.com, 27 November 2006
  6. ↑ Pick of the Week ManUtd.com, 7 February 2011
  7. ↑ Al Jazeera Sport begins live studio World Cup coverage Archived 14 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Peninsular, 5 June 2010
  8. ↑ Babe Hayley is such a polished performer Mirror Football, 3 July 2010
  9. ↑ Can Sky Sports News keep punching above its weight? The Independent, 5 August 2010
  10. ↑ "Hayley McQueen - Life at the "Theatre of Dreams"". The Trades. Burlee LLC. 30 July 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  11. ↑ "Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen 'besotted' after birth of baby girl". 4 October 2019.
  12. ↑ Life Goals with Theo Delaney - Hayley McQueen.
  13. ↑ "20 years of MUTV: Presenter Hayley McQueen reacts to hilarious prank caller". Stretty News. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
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