 |
Keeley Donovan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 May 1983 Grimsby, Humberside, England |
| Education | De Montfort University |
| Occupation(s) | Meteorologist, Journalist and Weather presenter |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Employer | BBC |
| Known for | |
| Television |
|
| Spouse | Johnny I'Anson (married 2018–present) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent |
|
| Relatives | Don Donovan (grandfather) |
Keeley Emma Donovan (born 14 May 1983) is an English journalist and broadcaster, working for the BBC as a weather presenter for television and radio stations in the North of England.
Donovan was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire (then part of Humberside) and grew up in nearby Tetney. Her father, Terry Donovan, was from Liverpool and played professional football for Grimsby Town, Aston Villa, Burnley, Rotherham United, [1] and the Republic of Ireland. Her Irish grandfather, Don Donovan, played for both Grimsby Town and the Republic of Ireland. [2] He managed Boston United from 1965 to 1969.
She attended the Humberston School. [3] She took a course in media at Franklin Sixth Form College in Grimsby, then studied for a BA at De Montfort University in Leicester. She returned to Grimsby to do a post-graduate NVQ Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education in conjunction with East Coast Media. [4]
Donovan started her broadcasting career at the age of 14, presenting for Channel 7 Television (now Estuary TV), a local cable TV station based in Immingham. [4] She went freelance while continuing her studies and began freelancing for BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in 2005 and joined the locally-based Propeller TV a year later.
After studying broadcast meteorology with the Met Office and the BBC Weather Centre, Donovan started presenting weather forecasts for the BBC's regional TV and local radio services in the Yorkshire and North Midlands, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and North East and Cumbria regions. She is also a reporter for the regional current affairs magazine, Inside Out , and an occasional newsreader and reporter for the Leeds edition of BBC Look North .
In September 2014, Donovan joined BBC Radio Humberside, presenting the new Saturday morning show. She had participated in work experience at the radio station 15 years earlier. [5]
In September 2015, she co-presented her first networked TV series, the daytime factual show Break-in Britain, produced by BBC Cymru Wales. [4] [6]
In March 2016, it was announced that Donovan would co-present the new BBC series Countryfile Diaries, a spin off of the Countryfile programme. [7]
In August 2017, Donovan was named as the new presenter of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire variation of the BBC's Inside Out; she was previously a reporter for the series. [8]
In July 2017, Donovan announced her engagement to fellow BBC presenter Johnny I'Anson, [9] he proposed to Donovan during a romantic walk in the Lake District. [10] They were married on 25 June 2018 in a rustic wedding at Castle Farm near Knaresborough. BBC Look North colleague Harry Gration conducted the ceremony. [11]
Donovan and husband Johnny's first child, a girl, was born on 10 July 2020. [12] They live in Leeds. [13] In January 2023, Donovan revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage. [14]
North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire, England. It borders the borough of North Lincolnshire and districts of West Lindsey and East Lindsey. The population of the district in the 2011 Census was 159,616. The administrative centre and largest settlement is Grimsby and the borough includes the towns of Cleethorpes and Immingham as well as the villages of New Waltham, Waltham, Humberston, Healing and Great Coates. The borough is also home to the Port of Grimsby and Port of Immingham as well as Cleethorpes beach.
Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is 45 mi (72 km) north-east of Lincoln, 33 mi (53 km) south-south-east of Hull, 28 mi (45 km) south-east of Scunthorpe, 50 mi (80 km) east of Doncaster and 80 mi (130 km) south-east of Leeds. In 2021 it had a population of 86,138.
Humberside was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, created from portions of the East Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, and the northern part of Lindsey, Lincolnshire. The county council's headquarters was County Hall at Beverley, inherited from East Riding County Council. Its largest settlement and only city was Kingston upon Hull. Other notable towns included Goole, Beverley, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Bridlington. The county stretched from Wold Newton at its northern tip to a different Wold Newton at its southernmost point.
BBC Radio Lincolnshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Lincolnshire.
BBC Radio Humberside is the BBC's local radio station serving the former county of Humberside which includes the unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
BBC Radio York is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of North Yorkshire.
Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parish in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Its white inland lighthouse, rising around 127 feet (39 m) above Hull Road, now houses a museum to 1950s actress Kay Kendall, who was born in the town.
BBC Look North is the BBC's TV news service for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, produced by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The programmes are produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre at Queens Court in Kingston upon Hull, with reporters also based in Lincoln.
Peter Levy is a BBC television and occasional radio presenter on BBC Radio Humberside. He previously worked in commercial radio.
BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, sometimes abbreviated to BBC Yorks & Lincs, is the name for the BBC's twelfth English Region, based in Kingston upon Hull and created from the division of the former BBC North region, based in Leeds. The primary transmitter is located at Belmont and covers East Yorkshire, the majority of Lincolnshire, north west Norfolk and eastern parts of Nottinghamshire.
Paul David Hudson is an English weather presenter for BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Hudson was born and raised in Keighley, West Yorkshire. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Bradford College in 2014.
BBC Look North is the BBC's regional television news service for West, South and North Yorkshire and northern parts of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The service is produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre at St. Peter's Square in Leeds with district newsrooms based in Bradford, Sheffield and York.
Humberside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing The East Riding of Yorkshire including Hull and northern parts of Lincolnshire including Grimsby and Scunthorpe.
BBC Yorkshire is one of the English regions of the BBC. It was formed from the division of the former BBC North region into BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, based in Kingston upon Hull. Serving West, North and South Yorkshire and the north Midlands.
Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education and University Centre Grimsby is a further education college, and higher education university in Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire in England.
Clare Kathleen Frisby is a newsreader for Look North based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Harry John Gration was an English journalist and broadcaster. He was one of the main anchors for the BBC Yorkshire regional magazine programme Look North. He was often referred to as Mr. Yorkshire by the media.
Franklin Sixth Form College is a sixth form college on Chelmsford Avenue in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, serving more than 2,700 students, including adult learners.
Sarah Jane Cruddas is a television presenter, space journalist and author. She is an investigator on the television series Contact on Discovery Channel and Science Channel in the United States. She is also the co-host of UFO Conspiracies with Craig Charles on History Channel in the UK. She has an academic background in astrophysics and is the author of several books about space exploration.
Humberston Academy is a secondary school with academy status (DRET) based in Humberston, North East Lincolnshire, England.
Do you follow sport in the county, and if so, what? Oh gosh, sorry, no – despite coming from good footballing stock – my dad used to play for Rotherham United.