Katie Derham Biography
Katie Derham (Catherine Beatrice Margaret Derham) is a British newscaster and a television and radio presenter. She was educated at a primary school in Sandbach and at Cheadle Hulme School where she took A-Levels in French, History and Economics. Later on, she studied economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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Katie Derham graduated with a BA (Hons). Derham began her broadcasting career as a researcher on Radio 4’s Money Box at the BBC. In 1995, she won the Bradford & Bingley “Best Personal Finance Broadcaster Award”. She moved to BBC television in 1996 as a consumer affairs correspondent and was also a reporter on the long-running Film… programme.
Katie Derham joined ITN in 1998 as the Media and Arts Editor for ITV News. At the age of 27, she became the youngest newscaster on British national television. In 2004, Derham became the main female presenter of the ITV Lunchtime News. She was also a relief presenter for both the ITV Evening News and the ITV News at Ten.
She also co-presented the ITV London news programme London Tonight. She left the station on 25 June 2010. She is a presenter of Radio 3’s Afternoon on 3 and Breakfast programmes. Previously, she presented the Hall of Fame Concert on Classic FM. She also makes an occasional guest presenter appearance on Saturday Live.
BBC announced, in August 2015, that Katie Derham had signed up to appear in the thirteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. Her partner was Anton du Beke. In Week 4, the couple finished top of the leader board. The judges voted them through to compete in the final, where they finished 4th of 15 couples.
Katie Derham PhotoThe following year, Katie Derham presented The Girl from Ipanema, a documentary for BBC Four. In September 2017, she presented coverage of the Last Night of the Proms on BBC Two and BBC One.
Katie Derham Age
Katie Derham was born in Canterbury, Kent, England United Kingdom. He was born on 18th June 1970. His current age is 49 years old as of 2019.
Katie Derham Net Worth
Katie Derham began her broadcasting career as a researcher on Radio 4’s Money Box at the BBC. She has been in the media industry for a very long time now. She has also won a number of awards. She has made a huge fortune from her career. Katie Derham net worth is currently under review. It is however estimated that she is worth a lot.
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Katie Derham was born in Canterbury, Kent to Margaret and John Derham. Her mother Margaret is a teacher. Her father John Derham is a chemist for Pfizer. The family moved to Cheshire within a year of her birth, and she grew up in Wilmslow. There are no details about her siblings.
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Katie married restaurateur John Vincent in 1999. John proposed to her on their first date. They have two daughters, Natasha Derham and Eleanor Derham.
Katie Derham Interview
Q: So what’s this dress all about?
Katie Derham: £50,000 it’s worth! I’m not kidding you. I couldn’t quite believe it was real actually. It wasn’t heavy but it was quite awkward if you know what I mean. I didn’t want to stand on a £20 note with my heel. It certainly wasn’t one for dancing in.
Q: Tell us about ‘The People’s £50 Million Lottery Giveaway’?
Katie Derham: It’ a bit of a ronseal title- as it says on the tin- it’s basically a joint venture between ITV and the Big Lottery fund and we’re giving away £50 million to one of four projects. Now these four projects have been chosen by a panel of judges from loads of applicants- as you can imagine lots of people would have had wonderful ideas of how to spend £50 million.
A video has been made about each of the four finalists and they will be shown on ITV the week beginning 3rd December and then on the Friday the viewers can vote to choose who gets the grant. It’s an amazing prize. I think it’s the biggest grant to be given in this way ever so its extraordinary really.
Q: What kind of projects are in the running?
Katie Derham: They are really varied but they’ve all got kind of a green theme but in a very different way. We;ve got one that is sort of an extension to the Eden Project down in Cornwall and that’s focusing on how we should be living with climate change.
There’s a project in the black country about urban regeneration which is wonderful. It’s not just about building a few parks in the centre of Birmingham-it’s much much bigger than that. Re-planting part of Sherwood Forest is another one and then a big UK wide network of cycling and pedestrian footpaths. So you can see they are long term, wide reaching and going to affect people for many generations- not just a little one off project.
Q: What would you do with £50 million?
Katie Derham: After I’d done a bit of shoe shopping and paid off my mortgage- I’ve been thinking about this and if I thought it would really help I’d buy up large areas of rainforest. I’m not sure if that would be the right thing to do to help and I’m sure I’d need to take advice but that would be a great thing to do.
Q: How did you end up as a newsreader?
Katie Derham: I studied Economics then got a job at the BBC as a secretary then because I’d done economics I quite soon got a job in the business programmes department so I learnt how to be a journalist on the job by working my way up through the ranks of radio business programmes. Then I moved to TV programmes and eventually to ITN. I started off as a reporter at first then stood in the odd shift doing lunchtime weekend news programmes and things like that and one thing led to another.
Q: Do you prefer being in the studio or out on the road reporting?
Katie Derham: It’s really different. I love them both in different ways. Reading the news is fantastic and it’s a different challenge everyday- holding things together when it’s live- and things can go wrong and it’s always interesting. But what’s great about being out on the road is you meet the most interesting people and so I guess in an ideal world we could all do a bit of both. But I do love my job and I’m very lucky.
Q: You were the youngest person the become a newsreader on British TV. Did you encounter any snobbery from the older generation of journalists?
Katie Derham: Well I never heard anything to my face to be honest. You live and fall by what you do and if I’d of made any mistakes I’m sure that would have been pointed out to be but people were generally really nice. I know that I had a lot to learn and I’ve learnt a lot over the years but people were generally very supportive.
Q: Yourself, Natasha Kaplinsky and Sophie Rayworth are often referred to as the ‘babes of the news’. Do you think you are taken less seriously than the men?
Katie Derham: On one hand it’s very flattering and on the other you take it all with a big pinch of salt. We all know each other and we all know that we worked very hard to get to where we are so it’s all a bit of fun really. I know what I look like without make up so I know there’s not a lot of truth in that.
Q: What do you think has been the biggest news story so far this year?
Katie Derham: Domestically the floods. Definitely the floods in Sheffield and Gloucestershire that was a huge story. Also the goings on in Iraq and the stories coming out of Pakistan are going to be big too. So it’s been a huge year really.
Q: If you could report on any event in history what would it be?
Katie Derham: The Spanish Armada. Can you imagine being on board one of the ships then. It would be fantastic. I’ve got good sea legs so I should be alright.
Q: Some fans of Strictly Come Dancing have been calling for you to appear in the show. Would you ever consider that?
Katie Derham: Have they really? Wow. I have to admit I’m slightly obsessed with that programme. I’ve got two little girls aged seven and two so I watch it with them. And also two of my best friends Gaby and Kenny Logan have been in it so I’ve been rooting for them and I’ve been along to the studio to watch them a couple of times and they are fantastic. So as you can imagine we were all outraged when they got voted off. There was revolution in the Derham household. Would I go on it? I don’t know you see. I only think I’m a good dancer when I’ve had a couple of glasses of wine and I suspect that sober and in front of an audience of seven million I would be rubbish so I think I ought to pass on that one.
SOURCE: www.femalefirst.co.uk
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