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Caron Louisa Keating (5 October 1962 – 13 April 2004) was a Northern Irish television presenter.
Early life and education
Keating was born on 5 October 1962 in
Fulham, west London, to an English father with southern Irish roots and a Northern Irish mother. When she was three months old her family relocated to Northern Ireland where she was raised. Her parents were the television presenter
Gloria Hunniford
Mary Winifred Gloria Hunniford, OBE (born 10 April 1940) is a Northern Irish television and radio presenter, broadcaster and singer. She is known for presenting programmes on the BBC and ITV, such as '' Rip Off Britain'', and her regular appea ...
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producer Donald Keating. Keating attended Harmony Hill Primary School, Lisburn and
Methodist College, Belfast
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, type = Voluntary grammar
, religion = Interdenominational
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, where she gained 8 'O' levels and 3 'A' levels. She was accepted to study at the
University of Bristol
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where she graduated three years later aged 21 with a BA Honours Degree in English and Drama.
Broadcasting career
Keating's television career began in Northern Ireland where she presented ''The Video Picture Show'', ''Channel One'' and the music programme ''Greenrock'', but her big break came when she was selected to join the team of ''
Blue Peter'' from 13 November 1986.
Keating appeared on the programme with
Peter Duncan,
Janet Ellis,
Mark Curry,
Yvette Fielding
Yvette Paula Fielding (born 23 September 1968) is an English television presenter, producer and actress. She became the youngest presenter on ''Blue Peter'' aged 18, and one of her episodes was subsequently voted the "Favourite ''Blue Peter'' mom ...
, and
John Leslie. Her ''Blue Peter'' career included a trip to
Moscow
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in 1987 during the
perestroika period, swimming with
shark
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s,
abseiling
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down skyscrapers and standing strapped to the top of a light aircraft whilst it performed aerial acrobatics. She also interviewed serving prime minister
Margaret Thatcher
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on the programme in 1988.
After four years, Keating left ''Blue Peter'' on 22 January 1990. Keating joined
BBC Radio 5 where amongst other programmes she co-hosted an early 90s afternoon show with film critic
Mark Kermode titled ''A Game of Two Halves''. In his autobiography Kermode described Keating as "The very dictionary definition of Lovely". She presented several other TV programmes including ''
This Morning'', before breast cancer was diagnosed in 1997. Keating was the face of
Sainsbury's
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Reward Card from 1996 to 1999 and also appeared in a TV commercial for
So Good soya drink in 1999. In 1999 she presented ''We Can Work It Out''.
Illness and death
Keating was diagnosed with
breast cancer
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in 1997. After undergoing conventional and
alternative
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treatments, and spending a period away from her family on the
Gold Coast
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, Australia, and at a
hospice care in Switzerland, she died at the age of 41, on 13 April 2004, at her mother's house in
Sevenoaks
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,
Kent
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.
Family
Keating married Russ Lindsay in
Tunbridge Wells
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, Kent in 1991. Their two sons were born in
Hammersmith
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...
, London: Charles Jackson Lindsay (born 1994) and Gabriel Don Lindsay (born 1997). Her second son, Gabriel, has the middle name of his maternal grandfather, who died just a few days before he was born. The family settled in Cornwall for a few years at the turn of the century. Russ Lindsay later married television presenter
Sally Meen
Sally Jennifer Meen (born 13 June 1965) is an English television presenter.
Meen has a degree in Catering and Institutional Management, and latterly qualifications in Art and Design. Her TV career started out as a dancer on Benny Hill, then a ...
on 4 September 2006.
The Caron Keating Foundation
Set up in Keating's memory, The Caron Keating Foundation is a fund-raising partnership set up to raise money to offer financial support to professional carers, complementary healing practitioners, and support groups dealing with cancer patients, as well as individuals and families who are affected by the disease. It will also financially help a number of cancer charities with their ongoing quest for prevention, early detection and hopefully an ultimate cure. It was set up by her mother, TV presenter Gloria Hunniford, and her two brothers Michael and Paul Keating.
References
External links
*
The Caron Keating Foundation official siteCaron Keating presenter biographyBlue Peter's Caron Keating dies
– BBC obituary
Caron Keating
– ''The Times
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'' obituary
'Blue Peter' presenter Caron Keating dies of breast cancer, aged 41
– ''The Independent
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'' obituary
Interview with mother Gloria re Caron and the Foundation
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Alumni of the University of Bristol
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