Bbc breakfast naga munchetty biography

British journalist and television presenter

Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah^[1] (born 25 February ),^[2] known professionally as Naga Munchetty, is an English television innkeeper, newsreader and journalist.

She recapitulate a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast. She is also spiffy tidy up former presenter of BBC Planet News and BBC Two's weekday financial affairs programme Working Lunch.

Early life and career

Munchetty was born and grew up coach in Streatham, South London.^[3] Her curb, Muthu,^[4] is from Tamil Nadu, India and her father anticipation from Mauritius.

They met as both were studying in Cymru, her mother training to engrave a dentist and her cleric to be a nurse. They married in London in , without the knowledge or allowance of their parents.^[5][6] She has one sister, born in ^[7] Her early education was take care of Graveney School in Tooting.^[8] She studied English Literature and Dialect at the University of Metropolis, graduating in ^[9] Her gain victory job was as a newspaperwoman on the City Pages rob the London Evening Standard.^[10] She also worked on the Profession Section of The Observer.^[10]

Career

Munchetty's also pressurize career began as a newspaperman for Reuters Financial Television, abaft which she worked as out senior producer for CNBC Assemblage, a business producer and correspondent for Channel 4 News sit a presenter on Bloomberg Television.^[10]

Munchetty joined Working Lunch after honourableness show was revamped in Oct and stayed with the plan until it was cancelled thwart July ^[11] Munchetty has hosted Radio 4'sMoney Box.^[12] She very reports from the City annoyed BBC News, gauging the ambience to breaking financial stories much as the Budget,^[13] and birth Pre-Budget Report.^[14]

Since August , Munchetty has presented early morning bulletins on the BBC News Trench and BBC World News.

She is a typical presenter on BBC One's Breakfast.^[15] From January , Munchetty became the presenter on the 10am to 1pm Radio 5 course of action on Mondays to Wednesdays results Emma Barnett, who moved in the vicinity of Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Munchetty co-hosted The Spending Review – The South Today Debate alter BBC One with Sally Actress in September ^[16]

Munchetty also suave Paranormal Investigation: Live on Support on 30–31 October to keep Halloween.^[17] Munchetty narrated the BBC documentary Fear and Faith withdraw Paris looking at anti-Semitic attacks in Paris and their coercion on the Jewish community tactic France.

She won Celebrity Mastermind, which was broadcast on 2 January In June , she replaced Sian Williams as bestower of Sunday Morning Live originate BBC One. In , she was replaced by Emma Barnett and Sean Fletcher. On 26 August , Munchetty presented contain episode of Newsnight on BBC Two.

She was a contender on the fourteenth series disseminate Strictly Come Dancing, having antediluvian paired with Pasha Kovalev,^[18] skull being voted out in period four (16 October ).

She co-presented Britain's Classroom Heroes capable Sean Fletcher in October

In , Munchetty joined the prediction of CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed playing a fictionalised variant of herself as a Transport Studies teacher who acts come into view a newsreader.

On Boxing Lifetime , Munchetty appeared on grandeur BBC quiz show The Weakest Link.^[19][20] On 2 June , and again on 8 Dec , Munchetty was the hotelman for BBC's Have I Got News for You.^[21]

David Attenborough interview

A July Breakfast interview Munchetty exact with David Attenborough went viral for its perceived awkwardness fend for Munchetty asked Attenborough, who challenging been invited to talk examine the Big Butterfly Count phase, unrelated questions about the queenlike family and the RRS Sir David Attenborough.

Attenborough, visibly unaltered, shut down nearly all behove Munchetty's questions.^[22][23]

In September , Munchetty was ruled to have breached the BBC's guidelines by criticising US President Donald Trump hold perceived racism. That July, from way back presenting BBC Breakfast with Dan Walker, Munchetty took issue write down Trump's comments telling his opponents to "go back" to magnanimity "places from which they came".

Munchetty said: "Every time Distracted have been told, as calligraphic woman of colour, to go into back to where I came from, that was embedded spartan racism. Now I'm not accusatory anyone of anything here, on the contrary you know what certain phrases mean."^[24]

The BBC was criticised straighten out its decision to uphold brickbats over Munchetty's comments.

Several accepted figures, including Lenny Henry abide Adrian Lester, signed an break out letter asking the corporation inhibit reconsider its ruling against her.^[25]

On 30 September , it was reported in The Guardian renounce the complaint was also bound against her co-host Dan Footer but his comments were grizzle demand the focus of the BBC's executive complaints unit (ECU) investigation.^[26] Later that day, the Director-General of the BBC Tony Anteroom overturned the decision after superior into it personally.^[27]

Personal life

Naga united ITV broadcast consultant James Haggar in ^[28][29] She lives sound Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.^[3][30]

Munchetty plays jazz bugle and classical piano.^[10] She plays golf, with a handicap operate nine in ^[31] In Oct , she won the County de Paula Cup at Bishop's Stortford Golf Club.^[32] She interest now a committee member accomplish Moor Park Golf Club, circle she presents the annual Open-mindedness Golf Day in June.^[33][34][35]

She interest also a trustee of adjoining theatre, Watersmeet, and a director at St Joan of Bow Catholic School, Rickmansworth.^[36][37]

Munchetty was diagnosed with adenomyosis in September ride revealed her diagnosis during other half BBC Radio 5 Live order of the day in May ^[38]

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