Sarah Heaney

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Sarah Heaney (born 19 May 1970) is a former Scottish television presenter.

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Life and career

She began her TV career with Live TV as a news reporter, then went on to front S2 Live on the now defunct SMG digital channel S2. In early 2000 Heaney moved to newsreading on Scotland Today . During this time, Heaney also presented, STV Magazine show "Room at the Top"/"Summer at the Top", which broadcast live from the top of Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow. Heaney also fronted Scottish Passport and Moviejuice, a film show. In 2006 she took voluntary redundancy as part of major shake-up of Scotland Today . [1] Heaney presented live and recorded broadcast programmes. Heaney also had a beauty column in the Daily Mail and wrote occasionally for other publications. In September 2006 she hosted ITV's Big Hearts, Big Night, and was a guest for the STV's 2008 online video blog, The Real MacKay . Heaney fronted a crime programme with news reader Mark Austin for ITV. Manhunt – Solving Britain's Crimes where Heaney and Austin appeal to the public for information on the UK's most wanted criminals. [2]

In 2008, she joined Mark Durden-Smith on Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then , a 25-part series where the hosts revisit destinations, originally visited by Judith Chalmers (Mark's mother) and other WYWH? presenters in the original 1974 series, to see how much they have changed. [3] Since 2012, Heaney has had presenting work on ITV's overnight teleshopping strand The Store . In October 2013, Heaney helped launch The Store as a dedicated full-time shopping channel on Sky and Freesat. [4]

Heaney lives in London. She is divorced from businessman Ed Adams with whom she shares two children: Edward William Adams, born on the 17 June 2006 [5] and second son Will was born in May 2008.

References

  1. ↑ "SMG confirms TV job cuts". The Guardian. 20 February 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Night of crime pays for ITV". The Guardian. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Straight ahead". The Guardian. 6 January 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "ITV brand to launch 24-hour shopping channel". The Independent. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Exclusive: Ed Over Heels". Daily Record. 21 June 2006. Retrieved 30 January 2010.



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