Hayley McQueen
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Hayley McQueen is a TV sports presenter and reporter and RTS award
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...

 winning producer. She is a presenter on Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News
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She is the daughter of former Leeds United, Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...

 and Scotland
Scotland national football team
The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Scotland are the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872...

 footballer and Sky Sports
Sky Sports
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 pundit Gordon McQueen
Gordon McQueen
Gordon McQueen is a former Scottish football player, who played as a central defender for Leeds United, Manchester United and Scotland.-Early career:...

.

Early life

Hayley lived in Hong Kong & also Scotland before settling in North Yorkshire in 1994. She has a (BA Hons) degree in PR Marketing and Journalism where she specialised in Broadcast Journalism.

Television career

McQueen began her television career working as a runner and production assistant for Richard and Judy
Richard and Judy
Richard and Judy is the name informally given to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, a married couple who are both British television presenters and columnists. Since their marriage, their television appearances have been largely made as a couple. They are best known for presenting This Morning and...

 before joining the television channel of Middlesbrough FC
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...

's Boro TV as a reporter and producer. She then joined Middlesbrough FC's "Football in the Community" scheme before joining Sky Sports News as a presenter.

She also presented on Fox Sports
Fox Sports (USA)
Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company . It was formed in 1994 with Fox's acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games...

. She left Sky Television in December 2006 and took up a position on MUTV, where she was main match day anchor & presented & 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.

Hayley then hosted the World Cup breakfast show for Al Jazeera Sports
Al Jazeera Sports
Al Jazeera Sports is a popular Arabic-language sports channel launched in November 2003 by the well-known Al Jazeera network.Al Jazeera Sports also owns the exclusive broadcasting rights in the Middle East for major football leagues, such as the Spanish La Liga, the French Ligue 1 and the Italian...

 with Scott Minto
Scott Minto
Scott Christopher Minto is an English former footballer who played as a left back in the Football League and the Premier League for Charlton Athletic, Chelsea, West Ham United and Rotherham United, and for Benfica in Portugal...

 daily throughout the 2010 tournament
2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...

. She returned to Sky Sports in August 2010 as they launched Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News is a 24-hour sports news channel in the United Kingdom. It is run by BSkyB whose sports channels include Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as Sky Sports HD1, HD2, HD3 and HD4....

 in HD.

Personal life

In November 2010 McQueen was ranked at 32 in TC Candler's list of "Most Beautiful Faces".

External links

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