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Keeley Donovan
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| Born | (1983-05-14) 14 May 1983 (age 41)
Grimsby, Humberside, England
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| Education | De Montfort University |
| Occupation(s) | Meteorologist, Journalist and Weather presenter |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Employer | BBC |
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| Television |
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| Spouse | Johnny I'Anson (married 2018–present) |
| Children | 1 |
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| Relatives | Don Donovan (grandfather) |
Keeley Emma Donovan (born 14 May 1983) is an English journalist and broadcaster, working for the BBC as a weather presenter for television and radio stations in the North of England.
Donovan was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire (then part of Humberside) and grew up in nearby Tetney. Her father, Terry Donovan, was from Liverpool and played professional football for Grimsby Town, Aston Villa, Burnley, Rotherham United,[1] and the Republic of Ireland. Her Irish grandfather, Don Donovan, played for both Grimsby Town and the Republic of Ireland.[2] He managed Boston United from 1965 to 1969.
She attended the Humberston School.[3] She took a course in media at Franklin Sixth Form College in Grimsby, then studied for a BAatDe Montfort UniversityinLeicester. She returned to Grimsby to do a post-graduate NVQ Diploma in Broadcast JournalismatGrimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education in conjunction with East Coast Media.[4]
Donovan started her broadcasting career at the age of 14, presenting for Channel 7 Television (now Estuary TV), a local cable TV station based in Immingham.[4] She went freelance while continuing her studies and began freelancing for BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in 2005 and joined the locally based Propeller TV a year later.
After studying broadcast meteorology with the Met Office and the BBC Weather Centre, Donovan started presenting weather forecasts for the BBC's regional TV and local radio services in the Yorkshire and North Midlands, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and North East and Cumbria regions. She is also a reporter for the regional current affairs magazine, Inside Out, and an occasional newsreader and reporter for the Leeds edition of BBC Look North.
In September 2014, Donovan joined BBC Radio Humberside, presenting the new Saturday morning show. She had participated in work experience at the radio station 15 years earlier.[5]
In September 2015, she co-presented her first networked TV series, the daytime factual show Break-in Britain, produced by BBC Cymru Wales.[4][6]
In March 2016, it was announced that Donovan would co-present the new BBC series Countryfile Diaries, a spin off of the Countryfile programme.[7]
In August 2017, Donovan was named as the new presenter of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire variation of the BBC's Inside Out; she was previously a reporter for the series.[8]
In July 2017, Donovan announced her engagement to fellow BBC presenter Johnny I'Anson,[9] he proposed to Donovan during a romantic walk in the Lake District.[10] They were married on 25 June 2018 in a rustic wedding at Castle Farm near Knaresborough. BBC Look North colleague Harry Gration conducted the ceremony.[11]
Donovan and husband Johnny's first child, a girl, was born on 10 July 2020.[12] They live in Leeds.[13] In January 2023, Donovan revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage.[14]
Do you follow sport in the county, and if so, what? Oh gosh, sorry, no – despite coming from good footballing stock – my dad used to play for Rotherham United.
