Katherine Jayne Secker (born 12 July 1972) is an English journalist and newsreader for Sky News. She has presented '' Sky News Today'' on the channel since September 2014, formerly alongside

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Early life

Secker was born in 1972 in

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and grew up in

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. Her mother was the

Tyne Tees Television ITV Tyne Tees, previously known as Tyne Tees, Channel 3 North East and Tyne Tees Television, is the ITV television franchise for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire. Tyne Tees launched on 15 January 1959 from studios at a converted ...

and

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broadcaster

Kathy Secker Kathy Secker (born Catherine Barnfather ; 18 February 1945 – 15 December 2015) was a British broadcaster, best known for her work at Tyne Tees Television and BBC Radio Newcastle. During her early broadcasting career at Tyne Tees (1976-1984) s ...

. Following A levels at Westfield School, she undertook a degree course in film and media at the

University of Stirling The University of Stirling (, gd, Oilthigh Shruighlea (abbreviated as Stir or Shruiglea, in post-nominals) is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built ...

. During that time she edited student newspapers and completed an internship with

. After graduating, she became an assigned BBC trainee in 1996.

Career

Secker joined Sky News in 2002. She spent 10 years as a foreign correspondent, frequently reporting from war zones including the

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. In 2014, as part of a schedule change, '' Sky News Today'' was launched, presented by Secker and

. She conducted the first live TV interview with the astronaut

Tim Peake Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member. He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bea ...

from the

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Controversy

In April 2019, Secker drew criticism for her comments during an interview about 'no-fault evictions'. Viewers accused her of being "patronising" and "insensitive" over her lines of questioning of the housing campaigner Kirsty Archer.

Personal life

Secker has a brother, David. She is married to Dom and has two children; Jake and Seb. Her mother, a well known television and radio presenter,

, died in 2015 aged 70. Secker also founded the charity Grace House North East, of which Jayne is a patron of.

References

External links

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