- Andrea Catherwood
Andrea Catherine Catherwood (born 27 November 1967 in
Belfast ) is a Northern Irish television presenter.Biography
Andrea Catherwood was born and raised in Belfast where her mother, 'Adrienne McGuill', was an announcer and newsreader at Ulster Television from 1959 to 1969, and also presented 'The Romper Room', from 1964 to 1969 as 'Miss Adrienne'. Adrienne Catherwood was awarded an
MBE in 2004 for her work with the charityAction Medical Research . Andrea's broadcasting career began aged 16, when she joined theBBC in Belfast as a co-presenter of a youth current affairs programme for which she won BBC Northern Ireland's Young Presenter of the Year award. The following year she co-presented the youth current affairs programme "Up Front". Aged 18 Catherwood made a documentary forBBC Radio 4 about the 18 years of troubles in Northern Ireland,Following an honours degree in Law from the
University of Manchester , in 1990 she joinedUlster Television where she spent three years as a news and features reporter. In 1993 she joined NBC Asia inHong Kong as a news reporter, covering the handover of Hong Kong to China and the 1997 stock-market turmoil. She travelled extensively throughout Asia, and inBurma interviewed opposition leaderAung San Suu Kyi .She joined ITN in April 1998 starting as Newscaster/Senior Reporter for ITV News, presenting the Early Morning News and doing special reports for News at Ten. She then became Medical Correspondent for ITV News. Having joined Five News in 2000 as a main news presenter, she moved back to
ITV in 2001.In November 2001 she was the first British
journalist intoMazari Sharif after the Northern Alliance captured the city fromTaliban forces. She produced a number of reports, which received wide coverage in the British press. Catherwood was reporting from inside the prison at the beginning of the Taliban prisoners uprising when one exploded a concealed grenade that killed five people. Catherwood was injured in theknee byshrapnel .In 2003, she was promoted and made the main anchor of the "
ITV Weekend News ", plus a relief presenter on the "ITV Lunchtime News " and "ITV Evening News .Catherwood left ITV News in September 2006, to front "
The Sunday Edition ", ITV's new political show withAndrew Rawnsley . However, this was quietly dropped in November 2007. She has not appeared on ITV programming since. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/15/itv.television1 Sunday Edition faces the axe]In 2006, she was scheduled to appear on the celebrity special of and to sing with
James Hewitt but ITV chiefs refused to give her permission to appear on the show. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-388059/Late-news-No-X-Factor-Andrea.html No X Factor for Andrea]Personal life
Catherwood married lawyer Gray Smith on 28 September 2002. The couple have three children, a son born in 2004 and twin sons born in 2005.
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