Kate Quilton

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Kate Quilton
Born
Katie Marie Quilton

(1983-11-30) 30 November 1983 (age 40)
Education University of Bristol
Occupation(s)Television presenter and journalist
Years active2012–present
Employer Channel 4
Television Food Unwrapped
Superfoods: The Real Story
The Shopper's Guide to Saving Money
Tricks of the Restaurant Trade
Spouse James Lance (m. 2016)

Katie Marie Quilton (born 30 November 1983 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire)[ citation needed ] is an English television presenter and journalist. She is best known for presenting a number of Channel 4 television series, including Food Unwrapped since 2012.

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Early life

Quilton grew up in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the youngest of four children.[ citation needed ] She attended Thurston Community College. [1]

Career

While at the University of Bristol, Quilton undertook a student equivalent of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me , where she ate kebabs for one week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The stunt was picked-up by a national paper.[ specify ] Quilton began her career in television while a student, and worked for ITV and the BBC. [2] She went on to work as a broadcast journalist in Somerset for the BBC, spending a lot of her time with farmers, and reporting mostly on food. At Bristol, Quilton was the editor of Epigram newspaper.

Quilton was one of Channel 4's commissioning editors, a position she held 2010–14. [2] She operated the World Wide Web editorial for some of the channel's biggest shows. She manages factual multi-platform commissions including The Food Hospital and Foxes Live. She won the BAFTA for Digital Creativity and the Digital Emmy award in 2014. [2]

She resigned as a commissioning editor in 2014 to focus full-time on Food Unwrapped. [3] In 2014, Quilton appeared with Food Unwrapped co-presenter Jimmy Doherty in The World's Best Diet, a one-off show for Channel 4. [4]

In 2015, she presented Superfoods: The Real Story, a four-part series for Channel 4. [5] The show returned for a second series of six episodes in 2016. She presented The Shopper's Guide to Saving Money, with David Fishwick, for four episodes in 2015. [6] Since January 2016, she presented Tricks of the Restaurant Trade alongside Simon Rimmer. The programming returned for a second series in November 2016. For the third series, she was replaced by Sophie Morgan. [7] [8] In 2016, she co-presented Be Your Doctor on Channel 4, alongside Tamal Ray. [9] She took part in a special edition of Christmas University Challenge in December 2016, as part of the University of Bristol alumni team. [10]

2017 and in 2019, she presented Channel 4's Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special series with Noel Fitzpatrick and Steve Jones. [11]

Personal life

In April 2016, Quilton ran the London Marathon for Papworth Hospital in memory of her father, Kevin Quilton. [12]

She married James Lance in 2016.[ citation needed ][ where? ] On the Food Unwrapped Christmas special in December 2017, she announced that she was expecting her first child. She gave birth to their son in May 2018. As presenter in the documentary Breastfeeding Uncovered, Quilton revealed she was harassed while nursing in public. [13]

Filmography

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2012— Food Unwrapped Co-presenter9 series; with Jimmy Doherty and Matt Tebbutt
2014The World's Best DietCo-presenterOne-off episode; with Jimmy Doherty
2015—Superfoods: The Real Story [14] Presenter3 series
2015The Shopper's Guide to Saving MoneyCo-presenter1 series; with David Fishwick
2016Tricks of the Restaurant Trade [15] Co-presenter2 series; with Simon Rimmer
Be Your Own DoctorCo-presenterOne-off episode; with Tamal Ray
Christmas University Challenge Contestant1 episode; part of University of Bristol team
2017Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special[ citation needed ] [16] Reporter1 series; with Noel Fitzpatrick and Steve Jones
2018How to Be HealthyCo-presenter1 series; with Tamal Ray
2018The Great British Germ HuntPresenter, Channel 4One-off documentary
2018Breastfeeding UncoveredProducer and reporterDispatches, Channel 4
2019The Great Formula Milk ScandalReporterDispatches, Channel 4
2019The Truth About Chlorinated ChickenReporterDispatches, Channel 4
2019Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special[ citation needed ] [17] Presenter1 series; with Noel Fitzpatrick and Steve Jones
2020How To BeatPresenterSeries, Channel 4
Cruising: From Boom to BustPresenterOne-off episode; Channel 4 [18]
2023Food Prices: How High Will They Go? [19] Presenter Tonight episode
How Safe Is Your Turkey? Dispatches [20] Presenter Dispatches episode

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