Caroline Anne Righton was born on 26 February 1958 and is an English television presenter and author, best known for being a presenter on the daily breakfast television station TV-am and being an anchor of the Channel 4 news show The Channel Four Daily.
20 Facts About Caroline Righton
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At the 2010 general election, Righton was the Conservative candidate for the new St Austell and Newquay constituency but lost to the Liberal Democrats.
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Caroline Righton worked as a Junior reporter for The West Briton and the Cornish Guardian.
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Also during this time, Caroline Righton was presenting regional TV programmes for BBC South West in Plymouth.
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Caroline Righton transferred her skills as a radio presenter to television.
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Caroline Righton moved to Windsor, Berkshire and started presenting the BBC London regional early morning television show BBC London Plus from 1985 to 1987.
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That year, Caroline Righton moved to the ITV breakfast station, TV-am, becoming a national television presenter for the first time, she presented the early part of TV-am before handing over to the main Good Morning Britain show.
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Caroline Righton joined in April 1987 and left in October the same year.
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Caroline Righton occasionally wrote columns for The Times and The Guardian while she was presenting on TV-am.
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Caroline Righton has produced television programmes for Sky, ITV and Channel 4.
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Caroline Righton then started her own producing business, before being bought out by a larger company and becoming the managing director of their broadcast division.
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In 1999, after 14 years away, Caroline Righton returned to the West Country after becoming a regional controller for ITV company Carlton under her former TV-am boss Clive Jones.
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Caroline Righton appeared on national television in the UK and on CBS's Early Show in the United States, while the associated website to the book has members from 25 different countries.
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In January 2006, Caroline Righton put herself forward to the Conservative Party as a prospective Member of Parliament.
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Caroline Righton had sent to a residents' association a tweet from her Liberal Democrat opponent pointing out that she had gone to a media event instead of the association's meeting.
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The tweet had been modified to add an insult, and Caroline Righton wrongly claimed that she was unable to verify the contents of the original.
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Caroline Righton went to school at La Retraite High School in Clifton, Bristol, and then graduated from the University of Warwick with a degree in English.
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Caroline Righton moved to Cornwall when she was 19, moving to Windsor when she was 27 and back to the West Country when she was 41.
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Caroline Righton married her husband, Mark, in 1979 and they have two sons.
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Caroline Righton is a surfer and is a campaigner for the Surf Life Saving Association.