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	'''Kate Silverton''' (born ] ]) is an ] ], currently presenting ] on weekday mornings alongside ] or ]. She is standing in for regular presenter ] during the period of her maternity leave. Previous to this Kate presented daily on ], and she has also fronted the weekend news bulletins on ]. She is an annoying crap presenter and a fuking bitch
			\| name = Kate Silverton
			\| image = Geneva International Motor Show 2018, Le Grand-Saconnex (1X7A0488).jpg
			\| caption = Silverton at the ] in 2018
			\| birthname = Kate Silverton
			\| birth_date = {{birth date and age\|1970\|08\|4\|df=y}}<ref>{{cite news \|last=Lindsay \|first=Jessica \|title=Kate Silverton age, husband, and journalism career as she's announced for Strictly \|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/18/kate-silverton-age-husband-and-journalism-career-as-shes-announced-for-strictly-7853750/ \|work=] \|date=18 August 2018 \|access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref>
			\| birth_place = ], ], England
			\| death_date =
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			\| education = BSc in Psychology,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.katesilverton.com/wellbeing-psychology\|title=Mental Health & Wellbeing\|website=Kate Silverton}}</ref> ]
			\| occupation = ], ], ], broadcaster, ]
			\| years_active = 1992–present
			\| spouse = {{marriage\|Mike Heron\|18 December 2010}}
			\| children = 2
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			*"There's No Such Thing As 'Naughty': The ground-breaking guide for parents with children aged 0-5"<ref>{{citation \|title=There's No Such Thing As 'Naughty' \|url=https://www.katesilverton.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-naughty-worksheets}}</ref>
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			'''Kate Silverton''' (born 4 August 1970) is an English ]. She formerly worked as a broadcaster and newsreader for the ]. Silverton was a regular presenter of '']'' and '']'', as well as making occasional appearances on the ] and ]. In 2018 she participated in ] of BBC's '']'', where she was paired with professional dancer ] and finished in 8th place. She became a qualified child therapist in 2023.
	In December 2006 Silverton left the comfort of the ] studio and spent some days reporting from ] in Southern ]. She produced reports for ] and ], as well as the main news bulletins on ].

			== Early life and education ==
	==Biography==
			Silverton was born in ] in ], England, the daughter of Terry Silverton, a ]-turned-registered ]<ref>{{cite news \|last=Walden \|first=Celia \|author-link=Celia Walden \|title=Kate Silverton: now it's her turn to make the news \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5292044/Kate-Silverton-now-its-her-turn-to-make-the-news.html \|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph \|location=London \|date=8 May 2009 \|access-date=27 September 2010}}</ref> and Patricia Silverton. Silverton has two sisters. Silverton attended ] in ], Essex, where she was Head Girl and a junior swimming champion. She also competed in the ].<ref name="Webster">{{cite news \|last=Webster \|first=Nick \|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16202006&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=attractive--ambitious-and-very-scary--tv-newsreader-kate-silverton-is-the---kaplinsky-klone--name_page.html \|title=Attractive, ambitious and very scary \|newspaper=Daily Mirror \|location=London \|date=3 October 2005 \|access-date=27 September 2010}}</ref> She was a ] and gained the ].<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Centenary of Guiding \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2009_35_mon.shtml \|work=Woman's Hour \|publisher=BBC Radio 4 \|access-date=15 December 2011}}</ref>
	Silverton was born to Terry Silverton, a ] registered ] and Patricia Silverton who now heads Kate's company ''Freya Media Ltd'' (named after the ] ] ]). Silverton has an elder sister, Claire <ref>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16202006&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=attractive--ambitious-and-very-scary-name_page.html</ref>

			Silverton graduated from ], a college at ] with a Bachelor of Science degree in ], having previously studied Arabic and Middle Eastern history for a year.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bigcat/presenters/katesilverton/ \|title=Kate Silverton joins the Big Cat team \|publisher=BBC \|access-date=27 September 2010}}</ref>
	Silverton attended ] in ], ], where she was a champion swimmer and started to compete in the ]. She also practices ]. She spent a year studying ] and ] before switching and has a ] in ] from the ], (]).

			== Early career ==
	Silverton worked in ] for a London-based ] before becoming a ]. She trained with the ] working on '']'' before becoming a reporter and presenter at ]
			Silverton worked for a London-based bank before becoming a journalist. She trained with the ], working on '']'' news before becoming a reporter and presenter at ].

	She ~~has been~~ a ~~presenter~~ on ]'s '']'', '']'', '']'' and ''Weekend Breakfast'' on ], ~~but~~ ~~now presents on~~ ] and ].		She was a panellist on ]'s '']'', and hosted ITV's ''The Psychic Show'' in 2002. She also featured on '']'', ''Big Strong Boys'',<ref>{{cite news \|last=Jury \|first=Louise \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/viewers-put-off-their-breakfast-by-bbc-presenters-psychedelic-blouse-480769.html \|title=Viewers put off their breakfast by BBC presenter's psychedelic blouse \|newspaper=The Independent \|date=2 June 2006 \|access-date=13 November 2013}}</ref> and ''Weekend Breakfast'' on ], before joining ].

			In 2003, Silverton allegedly hit ], the former editor of ]'s '']'' programme, during a pilot for a new political show. Liddle said: "I made a stupid comment about the disabled which Kate rightly took exception to."<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news \|last=Macgregor \|first=Fiona \|url=http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=474&id=1999392005 \|date=27 September 2005\|title=Here is the news ... I cannot work with that woman, so I quit \|newspaper=Scotland on Sunday \|access-date=13 November 2013}}</ref>
	===Philip Hayton incident===
	In ], Silverton drew some media attention when her co-anchor at BBC News 24, ], resigned his position six months into a year's contract after being with the BBC for 37 years.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4283824.stm</ref> '']'', without substantiation and quoting an unnamed 'insider', reported that he turned to Silverton during a break and said "I don't like you" <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/28/nbbc28.xml&site=5</ref> '']'' quoted another BBC 'insider' as saying that Silverton is "...pushy beyond belief. Behind her big superficial smile she can be a really aggressive, manipulative monster who always gets what she wants." <ref>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16202006&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=attractive--ambitious-and-very-scary-name_page.html</ref> Mr. Hayton merely cited "incompatibility" with Silverton as his reason and when his managers refused to move Silverton to another time slot he left. Silverton was in the peculiar position of having to go through the morning's paper review live on air the morning the story broke, avoiding any discussion of the story and chiding her new co-anchor when he looked to refer to it <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/28/nbbc28.xml&site=5</ref> Hayton said that he left the BBC "without bitterness or rancour"

			==BBC News==
	Many viewers thought there was less behind the scenes to this incident than the newspapers reported. The height difference between Kate Silverton and Philip Hayton was very striking to any viewer on the first day of their broadcast. Kate is a tall woman (almost 6 feet) and Philip is around 5'6' . This was less noticeable on the second day as Philip appeared to have "grown", but he still seemed to be looking her in the chin. This may not have seemed appropriate for a serious news programme. It is interesting that Kate continues to work daily as an anchor on BBC News 24. <ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1577214,00.html</ref>
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			From 2005 until December 2007, Silverton was a presenter on ] and also a regular relief presenter for '']''.{{citation needed\|date=January 2011}}

			In December 2007, she was named as the presenter of the ''BBC News 8 p.m. summary'', a 90-second round-up of the news shown on ], which she presented for two months. She presented the '']'' from February to August 2008, whilst main presenter ] was on maternity leave.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.katesilverton.com \|title=Kate Silverton to present news bulletin - Silverton's official website \|publisher=Katesilverton.com \|access-date=27 September 2010}}</ref>
	Her senior and much admired BBC News 24 colleague and presenter of The Politics Show, ], commented on the incident "She's warm and friendly. With Kate, what you see is what you get - she's bright, lively, talented and vivacious. I like and trust her. Yes, she's ambitious ... but aren't we all?" <ref>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16202006&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=attractive--ambitious-and-very-scary-name_page.html</ref>

			] apologised to viewers in August 2010, after Silverton swore at the end of a news bulletin on live television. Viewers in Scotland were the only ones who heard the words. A spokesman for BBC Scotland said: "Kate thought she was off-air at the time. The microphones hadn't been faded down and the mistake only went out in Scotland."<ref>{{cite news \|last=Stewart \|first=Stephen \|title=BBC presenter Kate Silverton's 'bloody' big gaffe - heard only in Scotland \|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/bbc-presenter-kate-silvertons-bloody-1067200 \|access-date=19 November 2013 \|date=15 August 2010}}</ref>
	On the incident with Philip Hayton, former programme editor of Radio 4's influential Today programme and co-presenter with Silverton ] said: ''“Kate is intelligent, attractive and has strong opinions. She is far cleverer than Hayton. There are plenty of very stupid women at the BBC but she isn’t one of them. Philip probably needs to work on an island where there are no women. She was absolutely lovely, good fun, professional, intelligent and devoid of the usual afflictions of TV presenters - narcissism and greed”'' <ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1799324,00.html</ref>. It was later revealed while the pair worked on a short-lived BBC TV politics programme in 2003 Silverton allegedly hit Liddle, who said: ''"I made a stupid comment about the disabled which Kate rightly took exception to. We took the fight out of the pilot. It's good to get these things out before we go on air. My admiration for Kate knows no bounds."''<ref>http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=474&id=1999392005</ref>

			Silverton took maternity leave in October 2011, and returned to the ''News at One'' in April 2012. Until May 2012, she was the deputy presenter of the BBC ''News at One'',<ref> - BBC Press Office profile</ref> presenting on Mondays and when main presenter Sophie Raworth was unavailable. ] later took over this role. Silverton returned to the deputy role in October 2013 to cover for Williams' leave. Williams later left the BBC so Silverton regained her role.
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			== Other BBC projects ==
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			On 1 April 2008, alongside the ] ], she presented live coverage of the celebrations held at ] for the 90th Birthday of the ].<ref>{{cite news \|title=DOCUMENTARY: Royal Air Force: Celebrating 90 Years \|url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/52048/DOCUMENTARY-Royal-Air-Force-Celebrating-90-Years-2-15pm-BBC1 \|access-date=28 October 2013 \|newspaper=Daily Express \|date=11 July 2008}}</ref> In 2008, Silverton joined the presenting team for '']'' on ].<ref>{{cite web \|title=BBC: Big Cat Live 2008 \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bigcat/about/\|work=BBC\|access-date=12 November 2013}}</ref> She co-presented coverage of '']'' aboard {{HMS\|Belfast\|C35\|6}} in London on 31 December 2008 on BBC One with ].<ref>{{cite web \|title=BBC One: New Year Live \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gd5cn \|work=BBC \|access-date=28 October 2013}}</ref>
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			In April 2009, she appeared as a mentor in the ] series '']'', offering her advice on good storytelling and public speaking.<ref>{{cite web \|title=BBC: The Speaker \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/speaker/improve/storytelling/ \|work=BBC \|access-date=28 October 2013}}</ref>

			In May 2009, she presented a documentary called ''10 Things You Need to Know About Sleep'', which looked at different ways to deal with ].<ref>{{cite web\|title=BBC One - 10 Things You Need to Know About Sleep \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j08h7 \|work=BBC \|access-date=26 October 2013}}</ref>
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			From 2010, she presented the Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live, running from 09:30 to 11:00.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Radio 5 Live's new-look weekend line-up revealed \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/09_september/03/5live.shtml \|work=BBC Press Office \|access-date=12 November 2013}}</ref>
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			In June 2012, Silverton interviewed ], who called for a halt to the killing of rhinos for their horns in Africa.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Prince William hits out at rhino poachers \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18489579 \|work=BBC News \|date=19 June 2012 \|access-date=13 November 2013}}</ref> Silverton has also acted as a stand-in presenter for the ] series '']''.
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			==''Strictly Come Dancing'' ==
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			Between 8 September and 18 November 2018, Silverton participated in the ] of '']''<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bk1pbm \|title=BBC One - Strictly Come Dancing, Series 16, Launch \|publisher=BBC One \|date=September 8, 2018 \|access-date=September 8, 2018}}</ref> with professional dance partner ]. The couple were eliminated in Week 9 (Blackpool), losing a dance-off against ] and his partner ].
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			;*<small><span style="color:red">'''Red'''</span> number indicates Kate & Aljaž were at the bottom of the leaderboard</small>
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			== Philip Hayton incident ==
			In September 2005, Silverton drew media attention when her BBC News 24 co-newsreader ], who had worked for the BBC for 37 years, resigned from his position six months into a year's contract, citing issues of "incompatibility" with Silverton.<ref>{{cite news \|title=BBC newsreader quits over 'clash' \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4283824.stm \|access-date=29 October 2013 \|work=BBC News \|date=26 September 2005}}</ref> '']'', without substantiation and quoting an unnamed 'insider', reported that Hayton turned to Silverton during a break and said "I don't like you".<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news \|last=Alleyne \|first=Richard \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1499354/Chemistry-as-Silverton-clicks-with-new-partner.html \|title=Chemistry as Silverton clicks with new partner \|newspaper=Daily Telegraph \|location=London \|access-date=27 September 2010 \|date=28 September 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|title=Newsroom spat forces BBC anchor to quit \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1499234/Newsroom-spat-forces-BBC-anchor-to-quit.html \|newspaper=] \|location=London \|date=26 September 2005 \|access-date=1 February 2014}}</ref>

			'']'' quoted another BBC 'insider' as saying that Silverton is "...pushy beyond belief. Behind her big superficial smile she can be a really aggressive, manipulative monster who always gets what she wants."<ref name="Webster" /> Hayton merely cited "incompatibility" with Silverton as his reason and when his managers refused to move Silverton to another time slot, he left. Silverton was in the peculiar position of having to go through the morning's paper review live on air the morning the story broke, avoiding any discussion of the story and chiding her new co-anchor when he looked to refer to it.<ref name="Telegraph" /> Hayton said that he left the BBC "without bitterness or rancour".<ref name="Telegraph" />

			However, several figures spoke up for Silverton. ], a fellow BBC News 24 presenter, who was Silverton's co-anchor at News 24 for several months, commented on the incident saying: "She's warm and friendly. With Kate, what you see is what you get – she's bright, lively, talented and vivacious. I like and trust her. Yes, she's ambitious... but aren't we all?"<ref name="Webster" />

			], who was allegedly hit by Silverton in 2003,<ref name=autogenerated1 /> nevertheless defended his former co-presenter. Liddle said: "Kate is intelligent, attractive and has strong opinions. She was absolutely lovely, good fun, professional, intelligent and devoid of the usual afflictions of TV presenters – ] and greed."<ref>Adam Sherwin {{dead link\|date=September 2024\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}, ''The Times'', 27 September 2005.</ref>

			== Child therapist ==
			In 2021 Silverton left the BBC to follow what she described as her "life's passion" and become a qualified ]. She told the PA news agency: "My academic background is in child psychology, and becoming a mum really inspired me too. My journey has really been decades long, both in understanding more about children’s mental health, and as a parent really benefiting from all the interviews and access to advice that I was given by incredible people." She admitted that when she competed in ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2018, it was with the intention of leaving journalism to train in child therapy. She now works in a primary school supporting young children with complex needs.<ref name="Indie23">{{cite news \|title=Kate Silverton reveals why she left BBC news career to become child therapist \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/kate-silverton-bbc-therapist-children-b2348744.html \|first=Ellie \|last=Muir \|work=] \|location=London \|date=31 May 2023 \|access-date=6 April 2024}}</ref>

			== Personal life ==
			Kate married Mike Heron in 2010. On 5 November 2011, Silverton gave birth to a baby girl. Her baby daughter was eventually conceived naturally, after four unsuccessful cycles of IVF. After losing an ovary during an operation to remove a cyst at the age of 29, Silverton had been told that she was unlikely to get pregnant naturally.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite news \|last=Sawer \|first=Patrick \|title=Kate Silverton announces second pregnancy with 'thumbs up' scan \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10597035/Kate-Silverton-announces-second-pregnancy-with-thumbs-up-scan.html \|access-date=1 February 2014 \|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph \|location=London \|date=25 January 2014}}</ref>

			On 25 January 2014, at the age of 43, Silverton announced that she was pregnant with her second child. She used her Twitter account to break the news, stating: "Mike and I are very happy to share that Clemency is set to become a big sister this summer."<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Their second child, a son, was born on 26 June 2014.<ref>{{cite news \|last=Silverton \|first=Kate \|title=Twitter \|url=https://twitter.com/katesilverton1/status/482769351851114496.html \|access-date=3 July 2014 \|date=28 June 2014 \|location=London}}</ref>

			Silverton is 5 ft 11in tall. In August 2018, she said the producers of '']'' had custom-made shoes created for her because none in the ''Strictly'' wardrobe were big enough for her above-average size-nine feet.<ref>{{cite news \|title=BBC's Kate Silverton: 'Strictly had to make special shoes for my big feet' \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/18/bbcs-kate-silverton-strictly-had-make-special-shoes-big-feet/ \|access-date=1 October 2018 \|work=The Daily Telegraph \|date=18 August 2018}}</ref>

			In 2022, Silverton was training to be a children's counsellor, and had qualified by 2023.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Mental Health & Wellbeing \|url=https://www.katesilverton.com/wellbeing-psychology \|access-date=2022-11-23 \|website=Kate Silverton \|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Indie23" />

			=== Cosmetic surgery lawsuit ===
			In January 2008, Silverton sued a clinic after an allegedly botched cosmetic surgery procedure for treatment of ] scars. Silverton said that the procedure caused a severe skin reaction and she had to take two weeks off work after the treatment. The lawsuit filed for unspecified monetary damages.<ref>{{cite web \|first=Mark \|last=Raby \|url=http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35809/118 \|title=BBC anchor sues over facial surgery for HDTV makeover \|publisher=Tgdaily.com \|date=28 January 2008 \|access-date=27 September 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321050154/http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35809/118 \|archive-date=21 March 2009 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>

			== Bibliography ==
			* Kate Silverton, Little, Brown. Boston, Mass., 27 April 2021.

			== References ==
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			== External links ==
			* {{IMDb name\|id=1176615\|name=Kate Silverton}}
			* {{Official website\|http://www.katesilverton.com}}
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Latest revision as of 20:38, 23 December 2024

English child therapist and former journalist

Kate Silverton
Silverton at the Geneva International Motor Show in 2018
Born	Kate Silverton (1970-08-04) 4 August 1970 (age 54) Waltham Abbey, Essex, England
Education	BSc in Psychology, St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
Occupation(s)	Child therapist, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, author
Years active	1992–present
Notable credits	BBC Breakfast BBC News at One BBC News at Six BBC News at Ten BBC News Summary BBC Weekend News BBC News Channel BBC World News GMT "There's No Such Thing As 'Naughty': The ground-breaking guide for parents with children aged 0-5"
Spouse	Mike Heron (m. 2010)
Children	2
Website	www.katesilverton.com

Kate Silverton (born 4 August 1970) is an English child therapist. She formerly worked as a broadcaster and newsreader for the BBC. Silverton was a regular presenter of BBC News at One and BBC Weekend News, as well as making occasional appearances on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2018 she participated in series 16 of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, where she was paired with professional dancer Aljaž Škorjanec and finished in 8th place. She became a qualified child therapist in 2023.

Early life and education

Silverton was born in Waltham Abbey in Essex, England, the daughter of Terry Silverton, a black-cab driver-turned-registered hypnotherapist and Patricia Silverton. Silverton has two sisters. Silverton attended West Hatch High School in Chigwell, Essex, where she was Head Girl and a junior swimming champion. She also competed in the triathlon. She was a Girl Guide and gained the Queen's Guide Award.

Silverton graduated from St Cuthbert's Society, a college at Durham University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, having previously studied Arabic and Middle Eastern history for a year.

Early career

Silverton worked for a London-based bank before becoming a journalist. She trained with the BBC, working on Look North news before becoming a reporter and presenter at Tyne Tees Television.

She was a panellist on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff, and hosted ITV's The Psychic Show in 2002. She also featured on The Heaven and Earth Show, Big Strong Boys, and Weekend Breakfast on BBC Radio 5 Live, before joining BBC News.

In 2003, Silverton allegedly hit Rod Liddle, the former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, during a pilot for a new political show. Liddle said: "I made a stupid comment about the disabled which Kate rightly took exception to."

BBC News

Main article: BBC News

From 2005 until December 2007, Silverton was a presenter on BBC News 24 and also a regular relief presenter for BBC Breakfast.

In December 2007, she was named as the presenter of the BBC News 8 p.m. summary, a 90-second round-up of the news shown on BBC One, which she presented for two months. She presented the BBC News at One from February to August 2008, whilst main presenter Sophie Raworth was on maternity leave.

BBC Scotland apologised to viewers in August 2010, after Silverton swore at the end of a news bulletin on live television. Viewers in Scotland were the only ones who heard the words. A spokesman for BBC Scotland said: "Kate thought she was off-air at the time. The microphones hadn't been faded down and the mistake only went out in Scotland."

Silverton took maternity leave in October 2011, and returned to the News at One in April 2012. Until May 2012, she was the deputy presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting on Mondays and when main presenter Sophie Raworth was unavailable. Sian Williams later took over this role. Silverton returned to the deputy role in October 2013 to cover for Williams' leave. Williams later left the BBC so Silverton regained her role.

Other BBC projects

On 1 April 2008, alongside the historian Dan Snow, she presented live coverage of the celebrations held at RAF Fairford for the 90th Birthday of the Royal Air Force. In 2008, Silverton joined the presenting team for Big Cat Diary on BBC One. She co-presented coverage of New Year Live aboard HMS Belfast in London on 31 December 2008 on BBC One with Nick Knowles.

In April 2009, she appeared as a mentor in the BBC Two series The Speaker, offering her advice on good storytelling and public speaking.

In May 2009, she presented a documentary called 10 Things You Need to Know About Sleep, which looked at different ways to deal with insomnia.

From 2010, she presented the Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live, running from 09:30 to 11:00.

In June 2012, Silverton interviewed Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, who called for a halt to the killing of rhinos for their horns in Africa. Silverton has also acted as a stand-in presenter for the Radio Four series Last Word.

Strictly Come Dancing

Between 8 September and 18 November 2018, Silverton participated in the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing with professional dance partner Aljaž Škorjanec. The couple were eliminated in Week 9 (Blackpool), losing a dance-off against Graeme Swann and his partner Oti Mabuse.

Week #	Dance / Song	Judges' score					Result
Week #	Dance / Song	Horwood	Bussell	Ballas	Tonioli	Total	Result
1	Cha-cha-cha / "Kiss"	4	6	4	6	20	No Elimination
2	Tango / "No Roots"	6	7	7	7	27	Safe
3	Foxtrot / "Why Don't You Do Right?"	6	7	8	8	29	Safe
4	Samba / "Africa"	4	5	5	6	20	Safe
5	Viennese waltz / "Finally Mine"	6	6	6	8	26	Safe
6	Rhumba / "Skin"	4	6	5	5	20	Safe
7	Argentine tango / "Assassin's Tango"	4	6	6	7	23	Safe
8	Quickstep / "I Want You to Want Me"	7	7	8	8	30	Safe
9	American Smooth / "Everlasting Love"	7	7	8	8	30	Eliminated

Notes

Red number indicates Kate & Aljaž were at the bottom of the leaderboard: ^A Alfonso Ribeiro filled in for Tonioli

Philip Hayton incident

In September 2005, Silverton drew media attention when her BBC News 24 co-newsreader Philip Hayton, who had worked for the BBC for 37 years, resigned from his position six months into a year's contract, citing issues of "incompatibility" with Silverton. The Daily Telegraph, without substantiation and quoting an unnamed 'insider', reported that Hayton turned to Silverton during a break and said "I don't like you".

The Daily Mirror quoted another BBC 'insider' as saying that Silverton is "...pushy beyond belief. Behind her big superficial smile she can be a really aggressive, manipulative monster who always gets what she wants." Hayton merely cited "incompatibility" with Silverton as his reason and when his managers refused to move Silverton to another time slot, he left. Silverton was in the peculiar position of having to go through the morning's paper review live on air the morning the story broke, avoiding any discussion of the story and chiding her new co-anchor when he looked to refer to it. Hayton said that he left the BBC "without bitterness or rancour".

However, several figures spoke up for Silverton. Jon Sopel, a fellow BBC News 24 presenter, who was Silverton's co-anchor at News 24 for several months, commented on the incident saying: "She's warm and friendly. With Kate, what you see is what you get – she's bright, lively, talented and vivacious. I like and trust her. Yes, she's ambitious... but aren't we all?"

Rod Liddle, who was allegedly hit by Silverton in 2003, nevertheless defended his former co-presenter. Liddle said: "Kate is intelligent, attractive and has strong opinions. She was absolutely lovely, good fun, professional, intelligent and devoid of the usual afflictions of TV presenters – narcissism and greed."

Child therapist

In 2021 Silverton left the BBC to follow what she described as her "life's passion" and become a qualified child therapist. She told the PA news agency: "My academic background is in child psychology, and becoming a mum really inspired me too. My journey has really been decades long, both in understanding more about children’s mental health, and as a parent really benefiting from all the interviews and access to advice that I was given by incredible people." She admitted that when she competed in Strictly Come Dancing in 2018, it was with the intention of leaving journalism to train in child therapy. She now works in a primary school supporting young children with complex needs.

Personal life

Kate married Mike Heron in 2010. On 5 November 2011, Silverton gave birth to a baby girl. Her baby daughter was eventually conceived naturally, after four unsuccessful cycles of IVF. After losing an ovary during an operation to remove a cyst at the age of 29, Silverton had been told that she was unlikely to get pregnant naturally.

On 25 January 2014, at the age of 43, Silverton announced that she was pregnant with her second child. She used her Twitter account to break the news, stating: "Mike and I are very happy to share that Clemency is set to become a big sister this summer." Their second child, a son, was born on 26 June 2014.

Silverton is 5 ft 11in tall. In August 2018, she said the producers of Strictly Come Dancing had custom-made shoes created for her because none in the Strictly wardrobe were big enough for her above-average size-nine feet.

In 2022, Silverton was training to be a children's counsellor, and had qualified by 2023.

Cosmetic surgery lawsuit

In January 2008, Silverton sued a clinic after an allegedly botched cosmetic surgery procedure for treatment of acne scars. Silverton said that the procedure caused a severe skin reaction and she had to take two weeks off work after the treatment. The lawsuit filed for unspecified monetary damages.

Bibliography

Kate Silverton, There's no such thing as 'naughty'. Little, Brown. Boston, Mass., 27 April 2021.

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