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Andrea Catherine Catherwood (born 27 November 1967) is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist.
Early life
Andrea Catherwood was born and raised in Belfast where her mother, Adrienne McGuill, was an announcer and newsreader at
Ulster Television
UTV (formerly Ulster Television, branded on air as ITV1) is the ITV region covering Northern Ireland, ITV subsidiary and the former on-air name of the free-to-air public broadcast television channel serving the area. It is run by ITV plc an ...
, from 1959 to 1969 and also presented ''The Romper Room'' from 1964 to 1969 as Miss Adrienne. Adrienne Catherwood was appointed an
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in 2004 for her work with the charity
Action Medical Research
Action Medical Research, previously The National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases, is a British medical research charity, founded in 1952, that focusses on funding research to prevent and treat disease and disability in babies and children ...
. Andrea was educated at
Strathearn School
Strathearn School is an 11–18 girls voluntary grammar school in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
History
In 1864, of land were bought by William Mullan and Robert Mullan, on which Strathearn House was built. In 1904, Mullan sold ...
in Belfast. Her broadcasting career began aged 16 when she joined the
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in Belfast as a co-presenter of a youth current affairs programme, for which she won
BBC Northern Ireland
BBC Northern Ireland ( ga, BBC Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: ''BBC Norlin Airlan'') is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Northern Ireland. It is widely available across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ire ...
's Young Presenter of the Year award. The following year she co-presented the youth current affairs programme ''Up Front''. Aged 18, Catherwood made a documentary for
BBC Radio 4
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about the 18 years of troubles in Northern Ireland.
Journalism career
Following an honours degree in law from the
University of Manchester
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, in 1990 Catherwood joined
Ulster Television
UTV (formerly Ulster Television, branded on air as ITV1) is the ITV region covering Northern Ireland, ITV subsidiary and the former on-air name of the free-to-air public broadcast television channel serving the area. It is run by ITV plc an ...
, where she spent three years as a news and features reporter. In 1993 she joined
NBC Asia in Hong Kong as a news reporter, covering the handover of Hong Kong to China and the 1997 stock-market turmoil. She travelled extensively throughout Asia, and in
Burma
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interviewed opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from ...
.
She joined ITN in April 1998 starting as newscaster and senior reporter for ITV News, presenting the ''
ITV Morning News'' and providing special reports for ''
News at Ten''. She then became medical correspondent for
ITV News
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. Having joined
Five News
''5 News at 5'', also known as ''Channel 5 News'', is the news programme of British broadcaster Channel 5, produced by ITN from its main newsroom on Gray's Inn Road, London.
History
''5 News'' was one of the new station's flagship programme ...
in 2000 as a main news presenter, she moved back to
ITV
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** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
in 2001.
In November 2001 she was the first British journalist into
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after the
Northern Alliance
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captured the city from
Taliban
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forces. She produced a number of reports, which received wide coverage in the British press. Catherwood was reporting from inside the prison at the beginning of the Taliban prisoners uprising when one exploded a concealed grenade that killed five people. Catherwood was injured in the knee by
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.
In 2003, she was promoted and made the main anchor of the ''
ITV Weekend News'', plus a relief presenter on the ''
ITV Lunchtime News
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...
'' and ''
ITV Evening News
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''.
Catherwood left ITV News in September 2006, to front ''
The Sunday Edition
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'', ITV's new political show with
Andrew Rawnsley
Andrew Nicholas James Rawnsley (born 5 January 1962) is a British political journalist and broadcaster. A columnist and chief political commentator for ''The Observer'', he has written two books on New Labour.
Early life
Rawnsley was born in Le ...
. However, this was quietly dropped in November 2007.
In 2006, she was scheduled to appear on the celebrity special of ''
The X Factor: Battle of the Stars'' and to sing with
James Hewitt
James Lifford Hewitt (born 30 April 1958) is a British former cavalry officer in the British Army. He came to public attention in the mid-1990s after he disclosed an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales, while she was still married to then-Pri ...
but ITV management refused to give her permission to appear on the show. In 2007, she was a contestant on the ITV series ''
Vernon Kay's Gameshow Marathon
''Gameshow Marathon'' is a British game show, broadcast on ITV from 17 September 2005 to 26 May 2007. After a quick retrospective look at the history of the particular show, the show itself is recreated. This involves recreating the original s ...
''.
In July 2009, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the
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moon landings,
ITN produced five special 10-minute programmes for
ITV
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** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
titled ''Mission to the Moon – News from 1969''. Catherwood, a former ITN newscaster and correspondent, reported for these specials. The first aired at 22:35 on ITV on Wednesday 15 July and ran the following Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday.
In October 2009 Catherwood joined
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is head ...
as part of the news station's relaunch, where she anchored ''Briefing'', ''The Pulse'', and ''Last Word''. She left in March 2012.
Catherwood is now a weekly contributor to ''
This Morning'' on
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
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** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
, as well as writing for
The Mail on Sunday
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.
Over the past three years she has been a presenter on various Radio 4 programmes. She presented
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
's ''
Woman's Hour
''Woman's Hour'' is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the air since 1946.
History
Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by A ...
'', as well as You and Yours, and is a regular stand-in presenter of ''
the Media Show
''The Media Show'' is a weekly British current affairs radio programme and podcast on BBC Radio 4 which examines the current state of the media. The first episode was broadcast at 13:30 on 1 October 2008 and since May 2017 has been presented by ...
'' on Radio 4. In September 2017, she appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Great Lives'', nominating
Constance Markievicz
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for a great life. As of December 2020 she still presented ''Woman's Hour'' occasionally; however her future participation was uncertain.
In October 2022, Catherwood began presenting ''
Feedback
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'' on
BBC Radio 4
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; the programme holds the BBC to account by allowing the radio listeners to express their opinions.
Personal life
Catherwood married lawyer Graham Smith on 3 July 2002 at a private family ceremony in
Kenmare
Kenmare () is a small town in the south of County Kerry, Ireland. The name Kenmare is the anglicised form of ''Ceann Mara'', meaning "head of the sea", referring to the head of Kenmare Bay.
Location
Kenmare is located at the head of Kenmare ...
, in the west of
Ireland
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. The couple have three children.
References
External links
*
Andrea Catherwood's TwitterOfficial website
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1967 births
Living people
Journalists from Northern Ireland
ITN newsreaders and journalists
5 News presenters and reporters
Television personalities from Belfast
People educated at Strathearn School