Kate Hawkesby Biography
Kate Hawkesby is a New Zealand radio announcer and television presenter who currently works as the ‘Early Edition’ presenter for Newstalk ZB. While working as a reporter, presenter, and newsreader for TVNZ between 1995 and 2007 she became the youngest person to present One News at 6 bulletin.
She has worked widely as a reporter in the field, from reporting live from the Oscars in LA to flying to Papua New Guinea with the NZ Army in an RNZAF Hercules to report on the difficulty in Bougainville as it moved towards civil war. Kate Hawkesby started presenting on TV2 Headline News and then spoke with Simon Dallow about the Breakfast and Midday news.
She became co-anchor of TV One’s Breakfast show with Mike Hosking in 2002. Highlights included co-hosting a week-long “roadshow” of live programs across the nation, covering live America’s Cup races, and interviewing a broad variety of newsmakers and politicians. Hawkesby joined Eric Young in 2004 as host of Tonight’s late news show, which she faced alone for two years after Young left. She left on maternity leave in late 2006 and has since announced she will not return.
Hawkesby has interviewed a number of artists from Brooke Fraser to Bryan Ferry for the show as well as presenting Tonight. She had the only exclusive television interview with Soulan Pownceby, an Olympic boxer, who was convicted of homicide. Also on ONE News, Hawkesby was a frequent fill-in. In addition to her news-reading responsibilities, Hawkesby also hosted a raft of TV shows for TV One, including the Wellington premiere of The Lord of the Rings, the World of Wearable Art Awards, and the Year Awards for Young Musicians.
She was also hosting the 2004 Fashion Week launch. Offscreen Hawkesby operates to support the Starship Foundation, Child Cancer, and the Breast Cancer Research Trust as an MC for many corporations and charities. She was also involved in the Make Poverty History Campaign this year. Hawkesby has been a finalist in the Qantas Television Awards Best Presenter category six times and was a finalist in the People’s Choice Award for Best Female TV Personality 2005.
After studies in politics and a stint in England’s Daily Express, broadcaster Kate Hawkesby’s screen career began in 1995, with an internship at TVNZ. Over the next decade, she reported from Bougainville to the Oscars red carpet. She presented for news bulletin Midday and became the youngest newsreader on the 6 pm edition of One News — she was a regular fill-in presenter. In 2002 she hosted Breakfast (with future partner Mike Hosking) and from 2004 fronted late-night slot Tonight until 2006 when she went on maternity leave. These days concentrating on parenting, Hawkesby pens a column for Woman’s Day.
Kate Hawkesby Age
Kate Hawkesby (born 1973) is a New Zealand radio announcer and television presenter who currently works as the ‘Early Edition’ presenter (weekdays from 5 am) for Newstalk ZB. She is currently 46 years old.
Kate Hawkesby Net Worth
Her net worth is under review.
Kate Hawkesby Husband
Hawkesby has a Political Studies degree and worked overseas on London’s Daily Express newspaper before returning to New Zealand to get married. Her marriage to Richard Lyne ended in 2007 after twelve years; they have three children. Her second marriage is with Mike Hosking; he has two children from his previous marriage.
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Kate Hawkesby and Mike Hosking Perfect Love
For a private couple, it was the most public marriage proposal imaginable. Two weeks ago, top radio and TV broadcaster Mike Hosking got down on one knee on a bridge crowded with Sunday morning shoppers and asked partner and colleague Kate Hawkesby to be his wife.
“I felt so bad for him,” recalls Kate (37). “I know how shy he is, so for him to do this in front of so many people… I just wanted him to stop! So while he’s declaring his love for me, all he’s hearing me say is, ‘Get up, get up, get up!’”
“It was important to me that for once, I did this out in the open,” says Mike (45). “Anyone can propose in private, but I wanted to make this gesture for Katie.”
Yet right up until the bended-knee-on-the-bridge moment, Kate had absolutely no idea what was coming.”We had talked about marriage,” she explains, “but my feeling was that the commitment we had made by living together and blending our five kids was enough so, as far as I was concerned, that was where we had left it.”
But Mike had other ideas. “I don’t think I’m a ‘have to get married’ sort of person,” says the Newstalk ZB radio host, “but I think it’s a lovely, permanent, committed thing to do.
“It had been bubbling away with me for some time so I just started planning and sorting out the ring, then when I realized we were going to have a few days without the kids in the school holidays, I booked a last-minute trip to Melbourne.”
The couple had their first official date two years ago when Mike invited Kate over to Melbourne for dinner while he was filming the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? “He booked first-class air tickets, rang me up and said, ‘Just get on the plane.’ We went out to dinner and during the day we’d cross this little bridge over the Yarra River from the Langham Hotel to the city and go shopping,” says Kate.
“I love taking photos so I kept making him stop to pose on the bridge. It became a bit of a joke for us. “And so when Mike booked their latest Melbourne trip, he had one thing on his mind – that bridge across the Yarra.”I thought proposing in a hotel room would be naff and in a restaurant is even naffer because people start clapping, and then I remembered the bridge and how important it was to us at the very beginning. I reasoned that being Sunday morning, it would be fairly quiet,” he says.
But he had to get Kate out of bed and onto that bridge, which proved to be a bit of a problem. She recalls, “We got in late the night before and it was such a thrill to be on holiday because we hadn’t had a break from the kids for a long time, so I was planning to take it easy before hitting the shops at 10 am. But we woke up really early because we were still on New Zealand time and Mike kept rushing me. We ended up at breakfast with me stuffing my face and him not eating a thing, and I thought, ‘Why can’t he just relax?’”
Finally, Mike persuaded a slightly grumpy Kate to go out into the freezing Melbourne morning, well before the shops were open, for a “walk”. All he had to do now was get her to stop at the top of the bridge. “And, luckily, I played right into his hands,” recalls Kate. “I said, ‘We’re on our special bridge – we have to take our bridge photo.’” The next thing she knew, Mike handed her a card to read. Kate says, “He is really romantic and is always giving me cards with beautiful words written in them.”
In fact, Mike had already given her a card on the plane, then another when they arrived at their hotel, but Kate still didn’t twig that something was up. “To be honest, that’s fairly standard behavior for Mike,” she laughs. “He writes lovely things to me about how I’m the love of his life, blah, blah, blah…” But this card was a little different. “It had the usual wonderful romantic things but it finished with a beautiful quote from an Italian poet, Cesare Pavese, which says, ‘We do not remember days, we remember moments,’ and then he had written ‘and this is the moment I want you to remember forever…
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