Katie Marie Quilton (born 30 November 1983 in

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) is an English television presenter and journalist. She is best known for presenting a number of

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television series, including '' Food Unwrapped'' since 2012.

Early life

Quilton grew up in

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, the youngest of four children. She attended

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Career

While at the

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, Quilton undertook a student equivalent of

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's ''

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'', where she ate

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s for one week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The stunt was picked-up by a national paper. Quilton began her career in television while a student, and worked for ITV and the

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. She went on to work as a broadcast journalist in

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for the BBC, spending a lot of her time with farmers, and reporting mostly on food. At Bristol, Quilton was the editor of Epigram newspaper. Quilton was one of Channel 4's commissioning editors, a position she held 2010–14. She operated the World Wide Web editorial for some of the channel's biggest shows. She manages factual multi-platform commissions including ''The Food Hospital'' and ''Foxes Live''. She won the

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for Digital Creativity and the Digital Emmy award in 2014. She resigned as a commissioning editor in 2014 to focus full-time on ''Food Unwrapped''. In 2014, Quilton appeared with ''Food Unwrapped'' co-presenter Jimmy Doherty in ''The World's Best Diet'', a one-off show for Channel 4. In 2015, she presented ''Superfoods: The Real Story'', a four-part series for Channel 4. The show returned for a second series of six episodes in 2016. She presented ''The Shopper's Guide to Saving Money'', with David Fishwick, for four episodes in 2015. Since January 2016, she has presented ''Tricks of the Restaurant Trade'' alongside

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. The programming returned for a second series in November 2016. For the third series, she was replaced by Sophie Morgan. In 2016, she co-presented ''Be Your Own Doctor'' on

, alongside Tamal Ray. She took part in a special edition of ''

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'' in December 2016, as part of the

alumni team. 2017 and in 2019, she presented Channel 4's ''Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special'' series with

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and Steve Jones.

Personal life

In April 2016, Quilton ran the

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for

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in memory of her father, Kevin Quilton. She married James Lance in 2016. On the ''Food Unwrapped'' Christmas special in December 2017, she announced that she was expecting her first child. She gave birth to their son in May 2018. As presenter in the documentary ''Breastfeeding Uncovered'', Quilton revealed she was harassed while nursing in public.

Filmography

;Television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quilton, Kate 1983 births Living people English television editors English television presenters Mass media people from Bury St Edmunds Women television editors