Kaye Adams (born 28 December 1962) is a Scottish

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and journalist. She was an anchor on

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topical discussion show ''

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'' from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2013 and was a regular panellist on Channel 5's daily morning show ''

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'' from 2007 until 2012. She hosts the morning show on

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weekdays from 9am to 12 noon.

Early life

Adams attended Abbotsgrange Middle school in Grangemouth and Grangemouth High before moving to the fee-paying

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and the

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, from which she graduated with an MA Honours in Economics and Politics.

Media career

Adams started her media career as a graduate trainee at Central Television, concentrating on political and news journalism – her first coup was a one-hour interview with

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. For the next few years, Adams remained focused on hard news when in early 1988 moved to

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's nightly news programme, ''

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''. She was one of the first journalists on the scene of the

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disaster in 1988. In 1992, a chance opportunity to host a discussion show for

after its original anchor

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left, set her off on a different path. ''Scottish Women'' ran for six years under Adams chair (1993–99), and won a number of awards and marked the start of Adams' career as a talk show host. Since her original success with ''Scottish Women'', Adams has presented ''ITV Weekend Live'', three series of ''Central Weekend Live'' with

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and John Stapleton; ''

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'', latterly ''Kaye'' for

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; and ''Pride and Prejudice'' for

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. Adams co-presented the last ever '' This Morning'' before

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left, while in 2002 she was ''This Morning's'' daily live anchor from

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, reporting on the first series of ''

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''. She has also appeared on ''

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''. Between 1999 and 2006, Adams anchored the

talk show, ''

'' where, combined with the rest of the female panel, she created a popular and engaging mix of topical issues and entertainment. On 5 November 2013, Adams returned to the panel in rotation with

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and

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. In January 2014, former Loose Woman

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returned to co-anchor the programme with Adams, Vorderman and McLean in rotation. Vorderman left the show in July 2014. Adams has also presented a daytime show called ''

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/ref> as well as appearing as a panellist and latterly as chair of '' Have I Got News for You''. Between 2007 and 2010, Adams regularly guest hosted and was a panellist on the Channel 5 panel show ''

''. In late 2008, Adams narrated a six-part documentary series ''The Merchant Navy'' on STV. On 26 May 2009, Adams returned to STV, more than 20 years after her first appearance on the station, as a guest co-host on the lifestyle programme '' The Hour'' with

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. Adams presented four shows. In August of that year, Adams joined a long team of reporters on ''

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''. Having reported on the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 for STV, Adams narrated a special documentary, ''The Lockerbie Bomber: Sent Home to Die'' for the Scottish television channel which aired on 9 August 2010. The programme examined the Lockerbie bomber's conviction and the renewed controversy over the Scottish Government's decision to send him home to Libya on compassionate grounds a year earlier. Since 2011, she has guest presented Channel 5's ''LIVE with...'' programme. In 2013, Adams co-hosted the daytime chat show '' Sunday Scoop'' with

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. Both Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams are represented by Nicola Ibison of Ibison Talent Group who acts as both their agent and management. Adams and

released a cookery book in 2018 called ''Nadia & Kaye: Disaster Chef''. In March 2010, Adams joined

to become the host of daily phone-in programme, ''Call Kaye''. The show ended in 2015, and was then replaced by the launch of ''The Kaye Adams Show'', which runs every weekday from 9am to 12pm. Kaye is often covered for by a guest host, particularly on a Friday, due to her work on ''

''. In 2022, Adams was a contestant on the twentieth series of ''

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''. She was paired with

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and was first to be eliminated.

Personal life

Adams is in a relationship with her long-term partner, tennis coach Ian Campbell, with whom she shares two daughters. They live together in Glasgow. She is good friends with fellow ''

'' panellist

. Adams is a Scottish origin co-patron of Kindred, a Scottish-based charity supporting families of young people with disabilities and mental health issues.

Filmography

;Television

References

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