Hayley McQueen (born 9 December 1979 in

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, England) is an English TV sports presenter, reporter,

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winning producer, and event host. McQueen is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News and currently the presenter of Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup. Previous to that she hosted Sky Sports' flagship Saturday evening Football First Premier League highlights show Match Choice, when Sky had the rights Hayley anchored the live 3 o'clock Premier League game which is shown exclusively in Ireland with full build up and post match. She is also an awards presenter and regularly hosts corporate events. Alongside her Sky work Hayley presented for Premier League TV worldwide and has appeared as a guest host on BBC5Live football phone-in show as well as hosting duties for Radio X show The Kickabout standing in for Johnny Vaughan. She is the former co-presenter of Sky Sports Champions League (BT Sport have the rights from 2015/16 season) as well as other Sky Sports football programming and once weekly Sportswomen programme. She is the daughter of former

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, Manchester United, and

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and

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pundit

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Early life

Hayley McQueen was born in

, and also lived in

and

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before settling in

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in 1994.

Television career

McQueen began her television career working as a runner and production assistant for

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Hayley McQueen
Sky Sports before joining the television channel of

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's Boro TV as a reporter and producer. She then joined Middlesbrough FC's "Football in the Community" scheme before being head hunted by Sky Sports News where she became a presenter. She also presented on

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. McQueen left Sky Television in December 2006 and took up a position on MUTV, where she was main match day anchor and presented and produced the news, daily talk and match day live build up and phone-in shows as well as conducting regular interviews with players past and present. McQueen then hosted the Daily World Cup show for Al Jazeera Sports with

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throughout the 2010 tournament. She returned to Sky Sports in August 2010 as they launched

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in HD.

Personal life

McQueen was engaged to German-born model and actor Kirk Newmann in 2018. She gave birth to daughter Ayla McQueen-Newmann on 3 October 2019. She supports Manchester United.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:McQueen, Hayley British television presenters 1979 births Living people English people of Scottish descent Sky Sports presenters and reporters