Tina Daheley (born ) is a British journalist, newsreader and presenter who works for the BBC, both on television and radio. She currently reads the news on '' The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' with

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, often contributing to discussions during the show. She is also a relief presenter on the ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2019 she became the voiceover presenter of '' Points of View''.

Career

Daheley joined the BBC in 2007. She has presented television coverage of women's football and co-presented the

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political discussion show ''Free Speech'', alongside Rick Edwards. Daheley has also presented the ''

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'' news on BBC Three, ''E24'' on the

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and ''

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'' (BBC Two's Switch Zone). She is the former host of the 1Xtra news show, the flagship news programme for

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. She was the sports newsreader on

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's '' The Chris Moyles Show'' from February 2010 until the show ended in September 2012. She went on to host the news, sport, and weather bulletins for ''

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'' with

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from 24 September 2012, until she left Radio 1 on 10 August 2018. Since July 2016, Daheley has been a relief presenter on ''

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'' and '' Victoria Derbyshire''. In September 2016, Daheley became one of the main presenters of '' Crimewatch'', alongside Jeremy Vine. On Tuesday 29 May 2018, Daheley made her debut on the ''

'' and on Sunday, 8 July 2018, Daheley made her debut on the '' BBC Weekend News'' and the ''

'', anchoring the corporation's flagship evening news programme for the first time. In July 2018, the BBC published updated salaries of its best-paid presenters, and Daheley was included in the list for the first time. The corporation named on-air presenters earning more than £150,000 in 2017–18. Daheley was listed as earning between £150,000–£159,999 during that year. In January 2019, Daheley joined

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to become the newsreader on '' The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' when

took over as presenter from Chris Evans.

Personal life

Daheley was born in . She comes from a

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family and was brought up in

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, West London. She was educated at

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in Ealing. She studied computer science at

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and went on to complete a

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in journalism at the

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. Daheley gave birth to a daughter in 2021.

References

External links

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Susanna Reid, Kay Burley and Tina Daheley: Meet the election's top anchor women, ''Evening Standard''Election 2015: the female journalists asking the hard questions, ''The Guardian''
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