Kaye Rintoul Adams (born 28 December 1962) is a Scottish

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and journalist. She was an anchor on ITV topical discussion show ''

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'' from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2013 and was a regular panellist on Channel 5's daily morning show ''

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'' from 2007 until 2012. She hosts the morning show on

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weekdays from 9am to 12 noon.

Early life

Adams was born in

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and brought up in

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, where she attended Abbotsgrange Middle school and Grangemouth High, before moving to the fee-paying

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and the

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, from which she graduated with an MA Honours in Economics and Politics.

Media career

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

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. For the next few years, Adams remained focused on hard news when, in early 1988, moved to

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's nightly news programme, '' Scotland Today''. She was one of the first journalists on the scene of the Lockerbie disaster in 1988. In 1992, a chance opportunity to host a discussion show for

, after its original anchor

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left, set her off on a different path. ''Scottish Women'' ran for six years under Adams' chair (1993–99), won a number of awards and marked the start of Adams' career as a talk show host. Since her original success with ''Scottish Women'', Adams has presented ''ITV Weekend Live'', three series of ''Central Weekend Live'' with

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and John Stapleton; ''

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'', latterly ''Kaye'' for

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; and ''Pride and Prejudice'' for

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. Adams co-presented the last ever '' This Morning'' before Richard and Judy left, while, in 2002, she was ''This Morning's'' daily live anchor from

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, reporting on the first series of '' I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!''. She has also appeared on '' Lily Savage's Blankety Blank''. Between 1999 and 2006, Adams anchored the ITV talk show ''

'' where, combined with the rest of the female panel, she created a popular and engaging mix of topical issues and entertainment. On 5 November 2013, Adams returned to the panel, in rotation with

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and Andrea McLean. In January 2014, former Loose Woman

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returned to co-anchor the programme with Adams, Vorderman and McLean in rotation. Vorderman left the show in July 2014. Adams has also presented a daytime show called '' The People Versus'',List of Dictionary Corner residents
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''. Between 2007 and 2010, Adams regularly guest hosted and was a panellist on the Channel 5 panel show ''

''. In late 2008, Adams narrated a six-part documentary series, ''The Merchant Navy'', on STV. On 26 May 2009, 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. Adams presented four shows. In August of that year, Adams joined a long team of reporters on ''

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''. Having reported on the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 for STV, Adams narrated a special documentary, ''The Lockerbie Bomber: Sent Home to Die'' for the Scottish television channel, which aired on 9 August 2010. The programme examined the Lockerbie bomber's conviction and the renewed controversy over the Scottish Government's decision to send him home to Libya on compassionate grounds a year earlier. Since 2011, she has guest presented Channel 5's ''LIVE with...'' programme. In 2013, Adams co-hosted the daytime chat show '' Sunday Scoop'' with

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. Both Sawalha and Adams are represented by Nicola Ibison of Ibison Talent Group, who acts as both their agent and management. Adams and Sawalha released a cookery book in 2018 called ''Nadia & Kaye: Disaster Chef''. In March 2010, Adams joined

to become the host of daily phone-in programme, ''Call Kaye''. The show ended in 2015, and was then replaced by the launch of ''The Kaye Adams Show'', which runs every weekday from 9am to 12pm. Kaye is often covered for by a guest host, particularly on a Friday, due to her work on ''Loose Women''. In 2022, Adams was a contestant on the twentieth series of ''

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''. She was paired with Kai Widdrington, and was first to be eliminated.

Personal life

Adams is in a relationship with her long-term partner, tennis coach Ian Campbell. They live together in Glasgow's West End. The couple have two daughters. She is good friends with fellow ''

'' panellist

. Adams is a co-patron of Kindred, a Scottish-based charity supporting families of young people with disabilities and mental health issues. In 2022, Adams admitted she had been lying to her daughter about her own age for around 20 years, knocking a decade off her real age.

Filmography

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