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Kay Burley

Kay Burley was one of the original Sky News team, and continues to work at the channel, hosting Sky News Lunchtime Live.

Kay Burley, who was partnered by Fred Palascak, left in the fifth week of Dancing On Ice in 2007 having previously survived a number of skate-offs.

Since May 2006, Kay Burley also hosted the 5.30pm bulletins on Five over the summer as a stand-in for Kirsty Young, who was on maternity leave.

Kay Burley joined the Evening Post and Chronicle in Wigan at just 17. She worked in various broadcast media before joining breakfast channel, TV-am, in 1985, as a newsreader and presenter.

From there Kay Burley moved to Sky.

According to Kay Burley's profile on Sky: "Kay was voted What Satellite TV’s Most Desirable Woman on TV for three consecutive years."

In addition to her newsreading duties, Kay Burley has conducted various high profile interviews including with Rebecca Loos, Gordon Brown and Shilpa Shetty.

The Sun reported in 2006 how Kay Burley has worked every Christmas day since she joined Sky News:

"She will present the Sunrise program from 6am to 10am in what she describes as a 16-year-tradition."

Back in 2001, The Mirror reported about a bust up with Frank Partridge and explained the background:

"Kay had been crying on Partridge's shoulder, when her marriage to record producer Steve Kuttner broke up.

"In 1994 she suffered a broken nose after a row with Kuttner at her London home and was off work for two weeks.

A few months later she was photographed leaving Gatwick airport with Partridge ..."

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