Jon Kay Biography
Jon Kay is an English Television Presenter/Reporter/Correspondent working as a Presenter for BBC Breakfast Show since joining the team in 2010. Kay also stands in for Charlie and Dan when they are not available.
Jon Kay Date of Birth / Birthday
Kay was born on the 8th of November 1969 in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Jon Kay Measurements/Height
He stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 7 inches.
Jon Kay Partner/ Wife
Currently, he is in marriage to his loving wife, Francesca Kasteliz, who is a former fellow journalist and BBC News Correspondent. The duo first met in their line of duty in the Bristol newsroom before beginning to date later and even tieing the knot later in 1998. He spent almost a year traveling with her around the world as they gathered news and had fun. Kasteliz is currently a Television presenting coach.
Jon Kay Kids/Children
The couple counts it a blessing to have three children whom they greatly love. However, he prefers to keep his children away from the limelight. We will update this information once it’s available.
Jon Kay Relatives/ Family
Kay was brought up in Cheshire by his loving parents Terry Kay and Tommie Duncan. In addition, he also grew up alongside three of his siblings, Scott Kay, Heather Flury Kay, and Terri Kerr Kay.
Jon Kay Schooling/Education
He is a proud graduate of the University of Exeter where he graduated with a first-class honors Bachelor of Arts Degree in Politics. In addition, he had also spent a year in high school in California.
Jon Kay Profession
He takes in this opportunity with great appreciation as he gets to sit down on the Breakfast sofa. This is as he was previously standing up as a reporter for BBC News. He got to decide to start a career in broadcasting journalism while making around the studios of University Radio Exeter.
Kay joined the BBC team in the year 1993 where he was a trainee reporter while working at local radio stations from Suffolk to Newcastle. He is lucky to have gotten a full-time job at BBC Bristol despite the fact that he wrote off an expensive radio car on his first day at work. He forgot about having a mast on the roof when he drove into a multi-story car park. Kay began his career there on the same day as Susanna Reid another young journalist.
Later on, after working in local radio and regional TV in Bristol, he went to London to work as a political reporter and news correspondent. Jon has also spent a year traveling around the world with his partner who is also a journalist while reporting from South East Asia, Central America, China, and Australia. While reporting in Mexico, they found themselves in the middle of a deadly hurricane.
Later on, upon returning to the United Kingdom, he became the BBC’s West and South of England Correspondent for both radio and national TV. Kay sometimes wishes that he is paid per mile as he has been given quite a number of miles to report on. This is all the way from Land’s End up to Tewkesbury, and over to Oxfordshire and Hampshire. He however states that these areas are among the most beautiful places in Britain and therefore he can’t complain.
He states that with over a quarter a million miles and three children, he relishes his job of the sheer variety of stories from which he can choose to cover. Kay states that some of his reporting has been tough such as the murder of Jo Yeates, the Vanessa George child-abuse scandal, and the repatriations at Wootton Bassett.
He goes ahead to state that hardly a month can pass by without him being battered by the gale-force winds or smothered in the snow. He however later goes ahead to state that he is still thankful that he has gotten to meet some amazing people and report on some fantastic things. These things include an octogenarian sky-diver and the Glastonbury Festival.
He also covers stories that are outside his patch. This is as he was the Olympics correspondent for BBC News at Six and Ten during the London Olympic 2012 games. In addition, he has also travelled all the way across the Atlantic with a ship full of history buffs in order to commemorate the centenary of the Titanic tragedy.
While abroad, he has been able to do several stints as a BBC foreign correspondent. This includes Los Angeles and Washington DC. He has also worked all over Europe. In addition, for the BBC, he has presented almost all kinds of programmes. This includes anchoring the BBC Two environmental series It’s Not Easy Being Green, Drive on 5 live, a documentary about bread-making for BBC Four, and documentaries for Radio 4.
Jon Kay Income
Kay receives an annual income ranging between $30,000 and $90,000.
Jon Kay Net Worth
Through Kay’s career as a Presenter/Reporter/Correspondent, he has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $1million and $1.5 million.
Jon Kay Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Kay is active on his social media accounts. He has about 310 followers on his Facebook Page and about 42,505 on his Twitter account.