Hazel Irvine (born 24 May 1965) is a Scottish
sports presenter
In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was ...
.
Early life
Irvine was born in
St Andrews
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, Scotland. Educated at
Hermitage Academy in
Helensburgh
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, she achieved an
MA in
History of Art
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at the
University of St. Andrews
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, and competed in golf, netball and athletics at university level. In her final year she was Senior Student of Hamilton Hall.
Broadcasting career
Irvine began her broadcasting career in radio, before moving to work for
Scottish Television
Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation since 31 August 1957 and is the ...
in 1988 as a
continuity announcer
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and latterly, as a sports reporter/presenter. This led to slots on the national
ITV
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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 ...
network co-presenting coverage of the
1988 Olympics[ alongside ]Dickie Davies
Richard John Davies (born 30 April 1933) is a retired British television sports presenter, who anchored '' World of Sport'' from 1968 until 1985.
Early life
Davies attended Oldershaw Grammar School after passing his eleven-plus; he then did ...
, and presenting reports from the Scotland football team's training camp at the 1990 World Cup.[
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'' programme and becoming the youngest-ever presenter of the BBC's flagship sports programme ''
'' on 19 June 1993. She also anchored
for ten years. In 1994, Irvine co-hosted the BBC's ''
''. Irvine has presented for the BBC at every
tournaments. In December 1996, she became the lead presenter of ''
'', initially with Julian Tutt, but then alone from 1997.