Kate Thornton Biography
Kate Thornton is an English journalist and broadcaster who is best known as the inaugural presenter of The X Factor, as well as for anchoring daytime shows such as Loose Women and This Morning. In 2010, she co-hosted the first season of 71 Degrees North with Gethin Jones.
How old is Kate Thornton? – Age
She is 51 years old as of February 7, 2024. She was born in 1973 in Cheltenham, United Kingdom.
Does Kate Thornton have a partner? – Husband – Children
Thornton started dating DJ Darren Emerson in 2004. The couple got engaged in 2007. She had birth in 2008. The association with Emerson ended in 2011.
Kate Thornton Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.4 million.
Kate Thornton BBC Radio 2 – Radio
Thornton has hosted a number of programmes on BBC Radio 2 since 2002. In addition to presenting, Thornton wrote the radio documentary From Band to Brand in 2004 and created the radio series Line of Enquiry, which launched in 2007 and invited an audience to ask questions of a number of celebrities.
From March 10 to April 28, 2013, Thornton hosted The Boots Feel Good Forum, a health and fitness-focused radio show that broadcast on Real Radio and Smooth Radio. Since 2014, Thornton has presented Paper Cuts, a radio series on BBC Radio 2. She joined Greatest Hits Radio on February 26, 2022, and succeeded Darren Proctor on Saturday nights.
Kate Thornton Podcast
Thornton presently presents the Yahoo! podcast “White Wine Question Time,” in which she asks three friends three questions while sharing three bottles of wine. Guests have included Jo Joyner, Nadia Sawalha, Malin Andersson, Leigh Francis, Angela Griffin, and Amanda Holden. The podcast initially premiered in December 2018. During the UK’s COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, she also created and hosted “Up Close And Socially Distant,” a Yahoo! video series in which she spoke on the phone with prominent celebrities, front-line workers, and those leading initiatives to support the community during lockdown. The show aired for nine weeks.
Kate Thornton Career
In 1995, she turned into the principal female and most youthful ever proofreader of pop magazine Raving successes at age 22, creating her most memorable issue in February 1996 covering the separation of teeny-bopper group Take That. She left a year after the fact, having been not able to forestall a further slide in deals of the magazine. In 1997, she turned into an Elements Manager at the Sunday Times, a post she held until 2001, and furthermore a contributing Proofreader for magazine Marie Claire, in which position she went on until 2003.
While undertaking these new publication jobs, Thornton started a second vocation in TV. In February 1997, Thornton was given her most memorable television introducing position, on the ITV current issues program Straight Up. She was entrusted with assembling a photograph recognition with music for Princess Diana upon the arrival of her demise.
In a meeting in Walk 2011, Thornton said: “…because it was a Sunday, the music library was closed and the main thing I had in my vehicle, the main piece of music that was suitable was “Light in the Breeze” from Elton John’s most prominent hits.” Partners credited the ensuing airplay and afterward the re-recording of the tune to this occasion. In any case, Scratch Knowles (co-moderator on the show) has persuaded me that whatever came because of it was all down to me.”
Thornton was the principal moderator of the UK series of The X Variable. She introduced three series of the show from 2004 until 2006 preceding being supplanted by Dermot O’Leary. Thornton later secured ITV’s daytime series Hussies, in turn with Andrea McLean. She introduced 233 episodes of the show from 2009 until 2011. She was supplanted via Song Vorderman.
Thornton was a normal substitute moderator on Today and in 2010, she co-introduced the principal series of 71 Degrees North close by Gethin Jones. Neither returned for the subsequent series. In 2010, she portrayed The Country’s #1 Abba Tune. Thornton likewise gave A Night Will Youthful in 2011. She visitor introduced six episodes of Lorraine in 2012. Thornton additionally introduced Gravity Games for BBC Two, Ladies: The Stripped Truth Genuine for Channel 4 and Bosoms Uncupped for Sky1.
Thornton sent off cashback site TBSeen in January 2016, alongside television moderators Myleene Klass, Amanda Byram and Denise Van Turn off, VIP culinary specialist Lisa Faulkner, entertainers Tamzin Outhwaite, Julie Graham and vocalists Heidi Reach and the band All Holy people, Nicole Appleton, Natalie Appleton, Mel Blatt and Shaznay Lewis. TBSeen entered organization in September 2018. Thornton facilitated the live Rigorously Come Moving visit in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013.
Kate Thornton TV Shows
♦ 2001–2002 – The Ideal Home Show
♦ 2001–2003 – Holiday
♦ 2002 – Lad’s Army
♦ 2003 – VH-1’s Behind the Movies: Top Gun
♦ 2004 – American Idol
♦ 2004 – Westlife
♦ 2004–2006 – The X Factor
♦ 2005 – Celebrity Wrestling
♦ 2007 – Britain’s Classroom Heroes
♦ 2008 – Countdown to Midnight: Take That Live
♦ 2009–2011 – Loose Women
♦ 2009–2012, 2014, 2018 – This Morning
♦ 2010 – 71 Degrees North
♦ 2011 – A Night with Will Young
♦ 2011, 2012 – This Morning’s Hub
♦ 2012 – Lorraine
♦ 2018 – The One Show
♦ 2019 – Richard Osman’s House of Games
♦ 2021 – Celebrity Mastermind
♦ 2023 – The Hit List