Naga Munchetty Biography
Naga Munchetty is a journalist, newsreader, and television presenter from England. She is frequent on BBC Breakfast. She has also previously hosted BBC World News and BBC Two’s weekday financial affairs show Working Lunch. In January 2017, she quit Breakfast to work as the interim business editor for Newsnight on her maternity leave.
How old is Naga Munchetty? – Age
She is 46 years old as of 25 February 2021. She was born Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah in 1975 in Streatham, London, England.
What is Naga Munchetty’s ethnicity? – Family
Her father is Mauritian and her mother is Indian. Munchetty has a sibling. Munchetty grew raised in the South London borough of Streatham. Her mother is Indian and her father is Mauritian.
Who is Naga Munchettys Husband? – Marriage
Her husband James Haggar is an ITV broadcast consultant. The couple married in 2007.
Naga Munchettys Education
Her primary schooling was received at Graveney School in Tooting. She earned a degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Leeds in 1997. Her first work was as a journalist for the London Evening Standard’s City Pages. She also contributed to The Observer’s Business Section.
How much does Naga Munchetty earn? – Net Worth
Munchetty, a BBC Breakfast presenter, had the largest pay increase of 30%, moving from £195,000 – £199,999 to £255,000 – £259,999.
Why is Naga Munchetty not on BBC Breakfast? – Career
Munchetty began her television career as a reporter for Reuters Financial Television, then as a senior producer for CNBC Europe, a business producer and reporter for Channel 4 News, and a presenter for Bloomberg Television. Munchetty joined Working Lunch after it was relaunched in October 2008 and remained with the show until it was discontinued in July 2010. Munchetty has previously hosted Radio 4’s Money Box. She also reports for BBC News from the City, evaluating the public reaction to major financial stories such as the Budget and the Pre-Budget Report.
Munchetty has been presenting early morning briefings (UKT) on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News since August 2010. She is frequent on BBC One’s Breakfast show. Munchetty took over as host of the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Radio 5 program on Mondays through Wednesdays in January 2021, succeeding Emma Barnett, who moved to Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. In September 2010, Munchetty and Sally Taylor co-hosted The Spending Review – The South Today Debate on BBC One.
Munchetty also performed Paranormal Investigation: Live on Living on October 30–31, 2010 to commemorate Hallowe’en. Munchetty narrated the BBC documentary Fear and Faith in Paris, which focused on anti-Semitic incidents in Paris and their impact on France’s Jewish population. She won Celebrity Mastermind, which aired on January 2, 2013. She took over as host of BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live from Sian Williams in June 2016. Emma Barnett and Sean Fletcher took her place in 2017. Munchetty hosted an episode of Newsnight on BBC Two on August 26, 2016.
She appeared in the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, when she was paired with Pasha Kovalev and was voted off in week four (Sunday 16 October 2016). In October 2017, she co-hosted Britain’s Classroom Heroes with Sean Fletcher. Munchetty joined the cast of CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed in 2017, playing a fictionalized version of herself as a Media Studies instructor who pretends to be a newsreader.
