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20 Facts About Kaye Adams

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Kaye Adams was born on 28 December 1962 and is a Scottish television presenter and journalist.

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Kaye Adams was an anchor on ITV topical discussion show Loose Women from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2013 and was a regular panellist on Channel 5's daily morning show The Wright Stuff from 2007 until 2012.

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Kaye 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.

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Kaye Adams was one of the first journalists on the scene of the Lockerbie disaster in 1988.

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Scottish Women ran for six years under Kaye Adams' chair, won a number of awards and marked the start of Kaye Adams' career as a talk show host.

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Between 1999 and 2006, Kaye Adams anchored the ITV talk show, Loose Women where, combined with the rest of the female panel, she created a popular and engaging mix of topical issues and entertainment.

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On 5 November 2013, Kaye Adams returned to the panel, in rotation with Carol Vorderman and Andrea McLean.

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Kaye Adams has presented a daytime show called The People Versus, as well as appearing as a panellist, and latterly as host of Have I Got News for You.

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Between 2007 and 2010, Kaye Adams regularly guest hosted and was a panellist on the Channel 5 panel show The Wright Stuff.

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In late 2008, Kaye Adams narrated a six-part documentary series, The Merchant Navy, on STV.

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On 26 May 2009, Kaye Adams returned to STV, more than 20 years after her first appearance on the station, as a guest co-host on the lifestyle programme The Hour with Stephen Jardine.

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In 2013, Kaye Adams co-hosted the daytime chat show Sunday Scoop with Nadia Sawalha.

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In March 2010, Adams joined BBC Radio Scotland to become the host of daily phone-in programme, Call Kaye.

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Kaye Adams is often covered for by a guest host, particularly on a Friday, due to her work on Loose Women.

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In 2022, Kaye Adams was a contestant on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing.

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Kaye Adams was paired with Kai Widdrington, and was first to be eliminated.

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Kaye Adams is in a relationship with her long-term partner, tennis coach Ian Campbell.

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Kaye Adams is good friends with fellow Loose Women panellist Nadia Sawalha.

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Kaye Adams is a co-patron of Kindred, a Scottish-based charity supporting families of young people with disabilities and mental health issues.

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In 2022, Kaye Adams admitted she had been lying to her daughter about her own age for around 20 years, knocking a decade off her real age.