Kaye Adams Biography
Kaye Adams is a journalist and television presenter from Scotland. She was a regular panelist on Channel 5’s daily morning show The Wright Stuff from 2007 to 2012. She was an anchor on ITV’s topical discussion show Loose Women from 1999 to 2006 and again in 2013.
How Old is Kaye Adams? – Age
She is 60 years old as of 28 December 2022. She was born in 1962 in Grangemouth, United Kingdom.
Kaye Adams Education
Adams attended Abbotsgrange Middle School and Grangemouth High School before transferring to the fee-paying St George’s School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, where she earned an MA Honours in Economics and Politics.
Kaye Adams Husband
Adams is in a long-term relationship with tennis coach Ian Campbell, with whom she has two daughters. They live in Glasgow together.
Kaye Adams Strictly Come Dancing
Adams appeared on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2022. She was paired with Kai Widdrington and was the first to go.
Kaye Adams Cancer
Adams was concerned after discovering a lump in her breast. Kaye said she could feel a lump by the time she arrived at her appointment, but she was reassured that she had nothing to worry about. The actress went on to say that being overly concerned about her health has harmed her.
Kaye Adams ITV Talk
Adams has presented ITV Weekend Live, three series of Central Weekend Live with Nicky Campbell and John Stapleton, Esther, later Kaye for BBC Two, and Pride and Prejudice for BBC Scotland since her success with Scottish Women. Adams co-hosted the final episode of This Morning before Richard and Judy left, and in 2002 she was the show’s daily live anchor from Australia, reporting on the first series of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!. She’s also been seen on Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank.
Between 1999 and 2006, Adams hosted the ITV talk show Loose Women, where she and the other female panelists created a popular and engaging mix of current events and entertainment. Adams returned to the panel with Carol Vorderman and Andrea McLean on November 5, 2013. Former Loose Woman Ruth Langsford returned to co-anchor the show in January 2014, rotating with Adams, Vorderman, and McLean. Vorderman departed the show in July of 2014.
Kaye Adams Career
Adams began her media career as a graduate trainee at Central Television, where she specialized in political and news reporting; her first coup was a one-hour interview with Margaret Thatcher. Adams remained focused on hard news for the next few years after joining Scottish Television’s nightly news program, Scotland Today, in early 1988.
She was among the first journalists to arrive on the scene of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. A chance opportunity to host a discussion show for Scottish Television after its original anchor Sheena McDonald left set her on a new path in 1992. Scottish Women ran for six years under Adams’ direction (1993-99), winning a number of awards and launching Adams’ career as a talk show host.
Adams has also hosted a daytime show called The People Versus, as well as appearing on Have I Got News for You as a panelist and, more recently, as chair. Between 2007 and 2010, Adams was a regular guest host and panelist on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff. Adams narrated the six-part documentary series The Merchant Navy on STV in late 2008.
Adams returned to STV on May 26, 2009, more than 20 years after her first appearance, as a guest co-host on the lifestyle show The Hour with Stephen Jardine. Adams performed four shows. Adams joined a long team of reporters on The One Show in August of that year. Adams, who covered the Lockerbie bombing for STV in 1988, narrated a special documentary for the Scottish television channel, The Lockerbie Bomber: Sent Home to Die, which aired on August 9, 2010. The program looked into the Lockerbie bomber’s conviction as well as the renewed controversy surrounding the Scottish Government’s decision to return him to Libya on compassionate grounds a year before.
She has been a guest presenter on Channel 5’s LIVE with… since 2011. Adams co-hosted the daytime chat show Sunday Scoop with Nadia Sawalha in 2013. Nicola Ibison of Ibison Talent Group represents both Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams as their agent and manager. In 2018, Adams and Nadia Sawalha published Nadia & Kaye: Disaster Chef, a cookbook. Adams joined BBC Radio Scotland in March 2010 to host the daily phone-in show, Call Kaye.
The show ended in 2015, and it was replaced by The Kaye Adams Show, which airs every weekday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Due to her work on Loose Women, Kaye is frequently covered by a guest host, especially on Fridays. Adams appeared on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2022. She was paired with Kai Widdrington and was the first to go.
Kaye Adams Movies and TV Shows
♦ 1999–2000, 2002-2006, 2013– – Loose Women
♦ 2000–2001 – Live Talk
♦ 2000–2001 – This Morning
♦ 2001–2002 – The People Versus
♦ 2004 – Have I Got News for You
♦ 2007–2012 – The Wright Stuff
♦ 2008 – Celebrity MasterChef
♦ 2008 – The Merchant Navy
♦ 2009 – The Hour
♦ 2010 – The Big Questions
♦ 2011 – Live with…
♦ 2013 – The Wright Stuff
♦ 2013 – Sunday Scoop
♦ 2017 – Good Morning Britain: Election 2017
♦ 2021 – The Celebrity Circle
♦ 2022 – Strictly Come Dancing