'Kaye Adams' (born
December 28,
1962 in
Falkirk,
Scotland) is a
Scottish television presenter.
Biography
Raised in
Grangemouth, her parents ran the family road haulage business, while Adams' activities included the
Brownie/Girl Guide[Successful ex-Girl Guides]. Adams attended
St. George's School for Girls in
Edinburgh and studied economics and politics at
Edinburgh University, but wanted to move to a law degree to become a lawyer, but it somehow never happened
[Interview with Kaye Adams - Less chat, more good causes]
Adams started her media career as a graduate trainee at
Central Television, concentrating on political and news journalism - her first coup was a one hour interview with
Margaret Thatcher. For the next few years, Adams remained focused on hard news, including
STV's ''7.30 for 8'', but a chance opportunity to host a discussion show for
Scottish Television after anchor
Sheena McDonald left, set her off on a different path.
"''Scottish Women"'' ran for six years under Adams chair, won a number of Awards and marked the start of Adam's career as a talk show host. Since then, she has presented ''"ITV Weekend Live"'', three series of ''"Central Weekend Live"'' with
Nicky Campbell and
John Stapleton; ''
Esther'' and latterly ''"Kaye"'' for
BBC2; and Pride and Prejudice for
BBC Scotland. Adams co-presented the last ever ''
This Morning'' before
Richard and Judy left, while in
2002 she was ''This Morning'' 's daily live anchor from
Australia, reporting on the first series of ''
I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!''
Adams has recently anchored the
ITV daytime talk show, ''
Loose Women'', where her journalistic training, incisiveness, and humour combine with the rest of the female panel to create a popular and engaging mix of topical issues and entertainment. She has recently been absent from the show on account of her maternity leave. She has also presented a daytime show called ''
The People Versus'', appeared in Countdown's
Dictionary Corner [List of Dictionary Corner residents], as well as a panellist and latterly as chair of ''
Have I Got News For You''.
Adams writes a weekly column for the ''
Daily Record'', is a personal and confidence coach
[Biography at Oryx Solutions] , and a mentor for young journalists
[Kaye Adams - journalist mentor]
A co-patron with Elaine Smith for
Special Needs Information Point, a Scottish based children's charity, Adams and Smith won £125,000 on a celebrity edition of ''
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' In February
2005, Adams was appointed a
UNICEF UK Ambassador for Scotland
[Kaye Adams, UNICEF UK Ambassador]
On May 28th 2007, Kaye Adams did an interview with Daily Mirror and stated she was enjoying spending time with her family so much she was undecided on whether or not she would be returning to Loose Women.
Recently, she wrote in her
Daily Record column, that she has decided to 'move on to new things' and won't be returning to Loose Women. [7]
Personal life
Adams and her long-time boyfriend, tennis coach Ian Campbell, have a daughter Charly (born
2002), and had their second child in
2007, a daughter named Bonnie. Since Charly's birth, Adams spends less time filming in London.
References
7.http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/saturday/tm_method=full%26objectID=19569585%26siteID=66633-name_page.html.>
External links
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Kaye's profile at itv.com
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Profile at her agents website