Tina Daheley

Tina Daheley (born ) is an English journalist, newsreader and presenter who works for the BBC, both on television and radio. She currently reads the news on ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' with Scott Mills, often contributing to discussions during the show. In addition, she is the regular relief presenter of the Jeremy Vine programme on BBC Radio 2. She is also a relief presenter on the '' BBC News at Ten'' and ''BBC News at Six''. In 2018, she became the narrator (and later the regular presenter) of '' Points of View''.

Career

Daheley began working behind the scenes in television production and worked on Space Cadets in an early production role.

Daheley joined the BBC in 2007. She has presented television coverage of women's football and co-presented the BBC Three political discussion show ''Free Speech'', alongside Rick Edwards.

Daheley has also presented the '' 60 Seconds'' news on BBC Three, ''E24'' on the News Channel and '' Revealed'' (BBC Two's Switch Zone). She is the former host of the 1Xtra news show, the flagship news programme for BBC Radio 1Xtra. She was the sports newsreader on BBC Radio 1's ''The Chris Moyles Show'' from February 2010 until the show ended in September 2012. She went on to host the news, sport, and weather bulletins for '' Radio 1 Breakfast'' with Nick Grimshaw from 24 September 2012, until she left Radio 1 on 10 August 2018.

Since July 2016, Daheley has been a relief presenter on ''BBC Breakfast'' and ''Victoria Derbyshire''. In September 2016, Daheley became one of the main presenters of ''Crimewatch'', alongside Jeremy Vine.

On 29 May 2018, Daheley made her debut on the ''BBC News at Six'' and on 8 July 2018, Daheley made her debut on the ''BBC Weekend News'' and the '' BBC News at Ten'', anchoring the corporation's flagship evening news programme for the first time.

In July 2018, the BBC published updated salaries of its best-paid presenters, and Daheley was included in the list for the first time. The corporation named on-air presenters earning more than £150,000 in 2017–18. Daheley was listed as earning between £150,000–£159,999 during that year.

In January 2019, Daheley joined BBC Radio 2 to become the newsreader on ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' when Zoe Ball took over as presenter from Chris Evans. She also became part of the BBC Election Night team, reading the top of the hour five minute BBC News Summary. In June 2024 it was confirmed that Tina would be part of the new presenting team on the BBC News At One, alongside Anna Foster, Ben Brown, Nina Warhurst, Sally Nugent, Jon Kay and Reeta Chakrabarti, rotating in Salford – with a one-hour long programme.

Personal life

Daheley was born in . She comes from a Sikh, Punjabi, working-class family and was brought up on a council estate in Perivale, West London. She has an older sister and a younger brother. She was educated at The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls in Ealing. She studied computer science at Brunel University and went on to complete a Master's degree in journalism at the University of Leeds.

Daheley met her partner Kane William-Smith on holiday in Ibiza in 2012. The couple got engaged on 7 January 2018. Together they have one child.

References

External links

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Susanna Reid, Kay Burley and Tina Daheley: Meet the election's top anchor women, ''Evening Standard''Election 2015: the female journalists asking the hard questions, ''The Guardian''

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BBC Radio 1 presenters
BBC Radio 2 presenters
BBC newsreaders and journalists
BBC television presenters
British women television presenters
English television journalists
English women journalists
Alumni of Brunel University London
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Living people
British women television journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
English women radio presenters
1980s births