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Katy Hill
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Katy Hill (born 15 April 1971) is a British television presenter and is most famous for presenting Blue Peter.
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She became Blue Peter’s 23rd host. Her assignments there included living in Mongolia with a family for a week, training with the England football squad for a World Cup special, joining the Cirque de Soleil and of course making things from yoghurt pots and sticky back plastic. She won the 2000 Children's BAFTA Award for Best Presenter, for her time at Blue Peter.
She subsequently also worked on numerous TV and radio jobs, including Live & Kicking, Top of the Pops, Football Fever, The Millennium Quiz Show with Michael Parkinson, Tomorrow's World, A Song For Europe and the weekend breakfast show on 95.8 Capital FM. She won the female silver medal in the 2004 series of The Games. Currently she is in a TV commercial for Arm & Hammer.[1]
Born in Poole, Dorset, her father is a vicar. Hill has two siblings, a brother Simon and a sister Naomi. She gained nine O-levels and four A-Levels at St Edwards C of E Comprehensive school in Romford, Essex, and worked in a record shop before she started. acting.[2] She is married to former Live & Kicking co-presenter Trey Farley, her second husband -the pair met on the show while Hill was still in her first marriage. They have a baby girl called Kaya Skye who was born in 2006. [3]
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Blue Peter Presenter No. 23 1995-2000 |
Succeeded by Liz Barker |
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