Katherine Downes

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Katherine Downes (born 11 June 1982) is an English television presenter who formerly worked on the BBC News Channel and BBC Breakfast, specialising in sports coverage.

Biography[edit]

She went to the independent St Peter's School, York. She studied journalism at Cardiff University.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, Downes was working at BBC South East for which she won Best Newcomer at the Royal Television Society Southern Centre Awards in 2010.^[1]

Downes joined the BBC Sport team in 2012 when it moved to Salford. She had previously worked as a reporter and occasional presenter on BBC South East Today, as well as reporting on a variety of news stories as a correspondent for BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel during 2011.^{[2][better source needed]}

On 1 June 2013, she married Tim Sleap at All Hallows Church in Sutton-on-the-Forest near York. She had allowed readers of Brides magazine to choose her wedding dress from a selection of five.^[3]

In November 2021, Downes announced she was leaving the BBC after 14 years with the corporation.^[4]

In 2022, Downes was part of BBC Sport's presentation and interview team at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

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