Hayley McQueen

Hayley McQueen (born 9 December 1979 in Manchester, England) is a Scottish TV sports presenter, reporter, RTS award 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.[2]

Hayley McQueen
Born (1979-12-09) 9 December 1979
Manchester, England[1]
NationalityScottish
OccupationTelevision presenter
Years activepresent
EmployerSky Sports
Children1

She supports Manchester United, and is the daughter of former Leeds United, Manchester United and Scotland footballer and Sky Sports pundit Gordon McQueen.[3]

Early life

Hayley McQueen was born in Manchester, and also lived in Scotland and Bangkok before settling in Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire in 1994. She has a BA (Hons) degree in PR and Journalism where she specialised in Broadcast Journalism and further studied Media Law.[4]

Television career

McQueen began her television career working as a runner and production assistant for Richard and Judy[4] before joining the television channel of Middlesbrough's Boro TV as a reporter and producer. She then joined Middlesbrough FC's "Football in the Community" scheme[2] before being head hunted by Sky Sports News where she became a presenter.[4]

She also presented on Fox Sports.[5] McQueen left Sky Television in December 2006 and took up a position on MUTV,[6] 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.[7]

McQueen then hosted the Daily World Cup show for Al Jazeera Sports with Scott Minto throughout the 2010 tournament.[8][9] She returned to Sky Sports in August 2010 as they launched Sky Sports News in HD.[2][10]

McQueen is also one third of a trio of presenters for award-winning football podcast The Offside Rule.

As a journalist, McQueen was a key contributor to twentyfour7 Football magazine[11] bringing exclusive written feature interviews with the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Roberto Martinez, Steven Gerrard, Paul and Tom Ince, amongst others.

Personal life

McQueen is engaged to German-born model and actor Kirk Newmann.[1] She gave birth to daughter Ayla McQueen-Newmann on 3 October 2019.[12]

References
  1. "Exclusive! Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen on the World Cup, meeting her fiancé on Tinder and wedding plans". Hello Magazine. 4 July 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  2. "Hayley Lands Top Sky Role". Middlesbrough FC. 27 July 2010. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  3. "Hayley McQueen - Life at the "Theatre of Dreams"". The Trades. Burlee LLC. 30 July 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  4. Hayley McQueen Sky Sports
  5. Top 10: Hottest Women On British TV Ask Men UK
  6. MUTV gets a makeover ManUtd.com, 27 November 2006
  7. Pick of the Week ManUtd.com, 7 February 2011
  8. Al Jazeera Sport begins live studio World Cup coverage Archived 14 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Peninsular, 5 June 2010
  9. Babe Hayley is such a polished performer Mirror Football, 3 July 2010
  10. Can Sky Sports News keep punching above its weight? The Independent, 5 August 2010
  11. "Hayley McQueen - Stax Trade Centre Appearance | MN2S Talent". MN2S. 18 November 2015.
  12. "Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen 'besotted' after birth of baby girl". 4 October 2019.
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