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Alison Shaw (née Douglas) is a
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, who has appeared on
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,
Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British broadcasting of sports events, subscription sports channels operated by the satellite television, satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television ...
and MUTV.


Broadcasting career

Shaw started her television career with STV's children's department. She also presented current affairs programmes ''Seven Days'' and ''Trial By Night'', travel show ''Scottish Passport'', and property programme '' Safe As Houses''. In August 2009, she became the first female to anchor live coverage of the Scottish Premier League, on Sky Sports. Shaw has presented on
Sky Sports News Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British pay television, paid television sports news channel run by Sky Group, Sky, a division of Comcast. History Sky Sports first started broadcasting sports news bulletins when it began broadcasting the Premi ...
,Gorgeous SPL host Ali Douglas swaps football for angling action
Daily Record, 20 June 2010
and its former rival channel
Setanta Sports News Setanta Sports News was a television channel from Virgin Media Television and Setanta Sports. The channel launched on 29 November 2007.
, as well as hosting
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on
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.Ali Douglas
MUTV
She has also had stints presenting on
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,
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and Middlesbrough TV. In December 2009, she co-hosted the Scottish Sports Awards on STV, while in July 2010 she presented Sky Sports' coverage of Fish-O-Mania, the UK's biggest
angling Angling (from Old English ''angol'', meaning "hook") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated with a fishing rod, although rodless te ...
event. In October 2010, she presented her first national news, '' ITV News at 5:30''. On 27 July 2012 she presented the news on '' Daybreak'', ITV's former breakfast programme. Shaw currently presents ''Countdown to Kick off'' on
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's TV channel, MUTV, and tennis on Sky Sports.Biography - Ali Douglas
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Writing

Shaw had been a columnist for newspapers, including the
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Sunday Post ''The Sunday Post'' is a weekly newspaper published in Dundee, Scotland, by DC Thomson, and characterised by a mix of news, human interest stories and short features. The paper was founded in 1914 and has a wide circulation across Scotland, U ...
. She also wrote a
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on
Scottish football Association football is one of the national sports of Scotland and the most popular sport in the country. There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scottish Borders, although many of ...
for the
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website. On 14 March 2018, Shaw's book ''Beautiful Chaos: A Life Worth Living with Bipolar'' was released; a frank account of her past, including taking drugs, binge drinking, depression and being diagnosed with bipolar.


Acting

In her early career, Shaw had lead roles appeared in several Scottish
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.Exclusive: Former panto star Alison Douglas to host new SPL coverage
Daily Record, 29 July 2009


Personal life

In her spare time, she is a keen
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, and has taken part in races for charity.TV star Ali Douglas gets ready to saddle up for her Old Firm debut
Daily Record, 27 September 2009
She also has an interest in property and has built up her own portfolio.


References


External links

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