Sharyn Storm Keating (''

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'' Uechtritz; born 27 October 1981) is an Australian

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, producer-

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and mother, now based in London. She has worked on a number of Australian and British television programmes such as ''

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''. She is the wife of singer

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Early life and education

Sharyn Storm Uechtritz was born in

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, Australia, the daughter of Gordon Charles Uechtritz, a cattleman, and Debra Lynn (

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practitioner. Keating's birth name was Sharyn Storm Uechtritz. Her parents loved the name "Storm" used in one of

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's novels, and decided to give her the name; concerned that, because of her name, she might be made fun of later on in her life, they added the name Sharyn. Keating grew up in a small village in Papua New Guinea, before her family relocated to a cattle property in Australia in 1988. Keating has three older brothers. After school, she attended the University of Queensland (Australia) for three years; she subsequently received an international exchange scholarship to study at

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in 2003, for the final year of her degree education.

Career

During her time at the University of California Los Angeles, Keating completed an internship at

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in the Original Programming Department under Chris Albrecht. It was upon her return to Australia that Keating began her career in television production at Channel Nine in Sydney. In 2009, she worked on the production of the Australian version of

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's ''The Apprentice''. From 2010–2012, Keating went on to work with popular formats including ''

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''. In 2012, she relocated to London where she became the producer-director of ''

''. Keating collaborated on a range of boots with legendary Italian bootmaker, Stivaleria Cavallin. Called the 'Storm Boots', these were launched in February 2015 at the Burberry show during

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. In October 2015, Keating was announced as Ambassador for Positive Luxury, a London-based company which globally awards luxury brands with an interactive Trust Mark for meeting sustainability and ethical business criteria. Keating had a fashion and lifestyle blog for a while in 2016/2017.

Personal life

Keating (then known by her maiden name, Uechtritz) married Tim Ivers in August 2009. They had first met while she was studying at the

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. Their marriage ended in April 2012. She started dating

in August 2011 after she met him on the Australian ''The X-Factor'' show. She subsequently married him on 17 August 2015. Storm took Keating's name after marriage. They have two children together, a son Cooper Archer Keating, born on 26 April 2017 and a girl, Coco Knox Keating, who was born 27 March 2020. She is of German, Danish, Samoan and English descent.

Filmography

References

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