1. Kay Burley was a presenter on Sky News and hosts Kay Burley, the breakfast slot on the channel.
37 Facts About Kay Burley
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Kay Burley has worked for BBC Local Radio, Tyne Tees Television, and TV-am.
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On 5 February 2025 it was announced that Burley was leaving Sky News after 36 years.
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Kay Burley began her reporting-career at age 17, working for the Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle.
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Kay Burley worked for BBC local radio and Tyne Tees Television, before joining TV-am in 1985 as a reporter and occasional newsreader.
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Kay Burley was recruited by Andrew Neil, and joined Sky Television, launching the Sky One Entertainment Channel in November 1988 with her own documentary, The Satellite Revolution.
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Kay Burley moved to the fledgling Sky News in 1988.
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Kay Burley was part of the team that covered the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on Sky, breaking the news of the princess's death shortly after 5 am on Sunday 31 August 1997.
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Kay Burley fronted Sky News coverage from Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
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Kay Burley is an occasional contributor to the tabloid Sunday Mirror, and in the summer of 2006 appeared occasionally on Channel 5's news bulletins.
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Kay Burley has stood in for Iain Dale on his Sunday Politics show on London talk radio station LBC 97.3 and joined LBC Radio on 23 March 2014 along with The Sun's managing editor Stig Abell to present a show from 8 to 11 am on Sundays.
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Kay Burley was a contestant for the second series of the ITV reality television show Dancing on Ice, beginning on 20 January 2007.
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Kay Burley skated for MacMillan Cancer Care, in memory of her mother, who had died of breast cancer.
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Kay Burley appeared on the second series of Celebrity Hunted, in 2018.
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On 3 October 2019, Kay Burley hosted her final afternoon show on the channel ahead of the first morning slot on 14 October 2019.
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On 10 December 2020, Kay Burley was suspended from presenting her eponymous show for six months, because she had breached London's tier 2 coronavirus restrictions.
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On 7 June 2021, Kay Burley returned to the channel with a simple greeting, "it's great to be back", before reporting the news headlines.
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On 5 February 2025, Sky News announced that Kay Burley was leaving the channel after 36 years.
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Images from 2008 showed Kay Burley appearing to strangle photographer Kirsty Wigglesworth, outside a court hearing for Naomi Campbell, who was sentenced for assaulting two police officers at London Heathrow Airport.
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Kay Burley was the victim of an unprovoked and inexcusable attack.
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In February 2010, Kay Burley apologised to guest Peter Andre who "fought back tears" after she aired comments by Dwight Yorke who criticised Andre after he volunteered to adopt Katie Price's first child Harvey.
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Kay Burley wrote in her online blog that Andre consequently "sobbed on my shoulder".
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In September 2010, commenting on the News International phone hacking scandal, part of an exchange between Labour MP Chris Bryant and Kay Burley went viral, whereby Kay Burley asks Bryant to cite information claiming that phone hacking was "endemic" in other newspapers.
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Bryant did, accusing Kay Burley of being "a bit dim" and saying:.
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Kay Burley falsely claimed that if he had changed his PIN, Bryant would not have been hacked.
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On 5 October 2012, Kay Burley was accused of insensitivity after she broke the news of the probable death of missing five-year-old April Jones live on air to volunteers who had been assisting in the search for her.
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Kay Burley repeatedly questioned Ed Miliband about his relationship with his brother David, at one point telling him: "Your poor mother".
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In June 2015, Kay Burley was criticised through social media for her interview of Nick Varney, the chief executive of Merlin Entertainments.
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In March 2015, Kay Burley repeatedly asked Cerie Bullivant of CAGE how he felt about the beheading of Western hostages by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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In 2018, during an interview concerning Boris Johnson's remarks about the burqa, Kay Burley drew criticism when she used as an example the lack of visible facial expression of war veteran Simon Weston, who had received severe facial injuries in the Falklands War.
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In December 2020, Kay Burley admitted to breaching London's tier 2 coronavirus restrictions when celebrating her 60th birthday.
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Kay Burley was later suspended from Sky News until June 2021, and withdrawn from consideration for the Royal Television Society's journalism awards.
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In March 2022, during an interview with two Ukrainian refugees in Dublin, Kay Burley drew criticism for stating that they can "start to build a new life in Dublin, safe in the knowledge that the British people are completely behind you".
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In February 2023, during the disappearance of Nicola Bulley, Kay Burley presented two breakfast programmes on location from St Michael's on Wyre, one of which involved retracing Nicola's last steps in real time whilst providing commentary.
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Kay Burley was criticised in November 2023 when, during an interview with Israeli spokesperson Eylon Levy, she asked what he thought of a hostage negotiator's claim that Israel values Israeli lives disproportionately to that of Palestinian lives.
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Kay Burley later issued a statement stating that she "raised a controversial view from an earlier guest to allow another to respond", emphasising a mission to fairly present the news of the war.
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In 2018 Kay Burley participated in Channel 4's Celebrity Hunted and was captured in the penultimate episode.