Keeley Donovan
{{Short description|British journalist and broadcaster}}
{{BLP sources|date=October 2010}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Keeley Donovan
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1983|5|14}}
| birth_place = Grimsby, Humberside, England
| education = De Montfort University
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| employer = BBC
| occupation = Meteorologist, Journalist and Weather presenter
| years_active = 2005–present
| television = {{ubl|Break-in Britain|Countryfile Diaries|Inside Out}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Johnny I'Anson|2018}}
| father = Terry Donovan
| partner =
| parents =
| children = 1
| relatives = Don Donovan (grandfather)
| known_for = {{ubl|Look North (Hull)|Look North (Leeds)}}
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Keeley Emma Donovan (born 14 May 1983) is an English journalist and broadcaster, working for the BBC as a weather presenter for television and radio stations in the North of England.
Early life
Donovan was born in Grimsby, Humberside, and grew up in nearby Tetney. Her father, Terry Donovan, was from Liverpool and played professional football for Grimsby Town, Aston Villa, Burnley, Rotherham United,{{cite news |title=My Yorkshire: Keeley Donovan|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/my-yorkshire-keeley-donovan-1-8722654 |access-date=29 August 2017 |newspaper=The Yorkshire Post |location=Leeds |date=26 August 2017 |issn=0963-1496 |quote=Do you follow sport in the county, and if so, what? Oh gosh, sorry, no – despite coming from good footballing stock – my dad used to play for Rotherham United.}} and the Republic of Ireland. Her Irish grandfather, Don Donovan, played for both Grimsby Town and the Republic of Ireland.{{cite news |url=http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/article/r.i.p-don-1080419.aspx |publisher=Grimsby Town F.C. |title=R.I.P Don |date=27 September 2013 |access-date=12 June 2015 |archive-date=17 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517095934/http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/article/r.i.p-don-1080419.aspx |url-status=usurped }} He managed Boston United from 1965 to 1969.
She attended the Humberston School.{{cite news |title=Keeley Donovan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthyorkslincs/content/articles/2008/06/12/keeleydonovan_feature.shtml |work=BBC Look North |publisher=BBC Yorkshire|date=15 June 2009|access-date=22 October 2010}} She took a course in media at Franklin Sixth Form College in Grimsby, then studied for a BA at De Montfort University in Leicester. She returned to Grimsby to do a post-graduate NVQ Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education in conjunction with East Coast Media.{{cite news |title=Local weather girl Keeley Donovan reveals her new TV challenge |url=http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/local-weather-girl-keeley-donovan-reveals-new-tv/story-27543816-detail/story.html |website=Grimsby Telegraph |publisher=Local World |date=5 August 2015 |access-date=18 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016160436/http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Local-weather-girl-Keeley-Donovan-reveals-new-TV/story-27543816-detail/story.html |archive-date=16 October 2015 }}
Career
Donovan started her broadcasting career at the age of 14, presenting for Channel 7 Television (now Estuary TV), a local cable TV station based in Immingham. She went freelance while continuing her studies and began freelancing for BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in 2005 and joined the locally based Propeller TV a year later.
After studying broadcast meteorology with the Met Office and the BBC Weather Centre, Donovan started presenting weather forecasts for the BBC's regional TV and local radio services in the Yorkshire and North Midlands, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and North East and Cumbria regions. She is also a reporter for the regional current affairs magazine, Inside Out, and an occasional newsreader and reporter for the Leeds edition of BBC Look North.
In September 2014, Donovan joined BBC Radio Humberside, presenting the new Saturday morning show. She had participated in work experience at the radio station 15 years earlier.{{cite web|url=https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/broadcasting/featured/2014/09/look-norths-keeley-donovan-handed-bbc-radio-humberside-show|accessdate=29 August 2020|title=Look North's Keeley Donovan handed BBC Radio Humberside show|date=23 September 2014 }}
In September 2015, she co-presented her first networked TV series, the daytime factual show Break-in Britain, produced by BBC Cymru Wales.{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Alice |title=Weather girl Keeley Donovan to host BBC1 crime show Break-In Britain |url=http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/weather-girl-keeley-donovan-host-bbc1-crime-break/story-27725405-detail/story.html |work=Hull Daily Mail |publisher=Trinity Mirror |issn=1741-3419 |date=3 September 2015 |access-date=18 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919153824/http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Weather-girl-Keeley-Donovan-host-BBC1-crime-Break/story-27725405-detail/story.html |archive-date=19 September 2015}}
In March 2016, it was announced that Donovan would co-present the new BBC series Countryfile Diaries, a spin off of the Countryfile programme.{{cite news |last=Methven |first=Nicola |title=New Countryfile daytime spin-off show to be fronted by glamorous weathergirl |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/new-countryfile-daytime-spin-show-7520200 |newspaper=Daily Mirror |location=London |publisher=Trinity Mirror |issn=0956-8050 |date=8 March 2016 |access-date=18 July 2016}}
In August 2017, Donovan was named as the new presenter of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire variation of the BBC's Inside Out; she was previously a reporter for the series.{{cite press release |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/keeley-donovan|accessdate=29 August 2020|title=Keeley Donovan to host regional BBC current affairs programme, Inside Out in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire |date=14 August 2017 |publisher=BBC}}
Personal life
In July 2017, Donovan announced her engagement to fellow BBC presenter Johnny I'Anson.{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Craig |title=Keeley Donovan engaged to fellow BBC presenter Johnathan I'Anson |url=http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/keeley-donovan-engaged-fellow-bbc-262170 |work=Grimsby Telegraph |publisher=Local World |date=1 August 2017 |accessdate=10 August 2017}} He proposed to Donovan during a romantic walk in the Lake District.{{cite news |url=https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/keeley-donovan-reveals-how-fiance-264904|title=Keeley Donovan reveals how fiance Johnny I'Anson proposed|accessdate=27 April 2019|work=Grimsby Telegraph|date=2 August 2017 }} They were married on 25 June 2018 in a rustic wedding at Castle Farm near Knaresborough. BBC Look North colleague Harry Gration conducted the ceremony.{{cite news |last=Evans |first=Alex |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/watch-the-emotional-ceremony-as-bbc-look-north-s-keeley-donovan-marries-in-rustic-wedding-on-yorkshire-farm-1-9221791 |title=Watch the emotional ceremony as BBC Look North's Keeley Donovan marries in rustic wedding on Yorkshire farm |newspaper=The Yorkshire Post |location=Leeds |issn=0963-1496 |access-date=26 July 2018 |archive-date=26 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726234205/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/watch-the-emotional-ceremony-as-bbc-look-north-s-keeley-donovan-marries-in-rustic-wedding-on-yorkshire-farm-1-9221791 |url-status=dead }}
Their daughter was born in 2020.{{cite news|url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/keeley-donovan-gives-birth-girl-4323149|accessdate=15 July 2020|title=Look North's Keeley Donovan gives birth to healthy baby girl|date=13 July 2020|work=Hull Daily Mail}} They live in Leeds.{{cite web |last=Hole |first=Rabbit |title=Welcome to Leeds - The Best Alternative Guide to Leeds |url=https://welcometoleeds.co.uk/city-guide/keeley-donovan/ |access-date=22 April 2022 |website=Welcome To Leeds }} In January 2023, Donovan revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-12 |title=BBC Look North presenter Keeley Donovan confirms she has suffered a miscarriage in poignant post about baby loss |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/bbc-look-north-presenter-keeley-donovan-confirms-she-has-suffered-a-miscarriage-in-poignant-post-about-baby-loss-3983746 |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Yorkshire Post |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4HYsf5LYbN4xt4MryrS81Mk/keeley-donovan Keeley Donovan] BBC One
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Category:Alumni of De Montfort University
Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists
Category:BBC television presenters
Category:BBC weather forecasters
Category:English people of Irish descent
Category:English television presenters