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Biography
Hayley McQueen (born 9 December 1979 in Manchester, England) is a British TV sports presenter and reporter and RTS award winning producer. McQueen is also an experienced event host. McQueen is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News & current the presenter of flagship Saturday evening Football First Premier League highlights show Match Choice, she also presents a live 3 o'clock Premier League game which is shown exclusively in Ireland with full build up & post match, as well as Game of the Day for both the UK & Ireland. She is also a regular on Premier League TV & has appeared as a guest host on BBC5Live football phone-in show swell as hosting duties for Radio X show The Kickabout standing in for Johnny Vaughan. She is the former co-presenter of Sky Sports Champions League (BT Sport have the rights from 2015/16 season) as well as other Sky Sports football programming.
She is the daughter of former Leeds United, Manchester United and Scotland footballer and Sky Sports pundit Gordon McQueen. She is a supporter of Manchester United.
Early life
Hayley McQueen lived in Scotland and Hong Kong before settling in Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire in 1994. She has a BA (Hons) degree in PR and Journalism where she specialised in Broadcast Journalism and further studied Media Law.
Television career
McQueen began her television career working as a runner and production assistant for Richard and Judy before joining the television channel of Middlesbrough's Boro TV as a reporter and producer. She then joined Middlesbrough FC's "Football in the Community" scheme before being head hunted by Sky Sports News where she became a presenter.
She also presented on Fox Sports. McQueen left Sky Television in December 2006 and took up a position on MUTV, where she was main match day anchor and presented and produced the news, daily talk and match day live build up and phone-in shows as well as conducting regular interviews with players past and present.
McQueen then hosted the Daily World Cup show for Al Jazeera Sports with Scott Minto throughout the 2010 tournament. She returned to Sky Sports in August 2010 as they launched Sky Sports News in HD.
McQueen is actively involved with various Football in the Community projects and is an ambassador for Sport for Freedom, the Football Foundation, SportsAid & various cancer charities. She has hosted events for high-profile worldwide brands including Samsung, Nike, the Premier League, Scania, The LMA, The FA, UEFA, HTC & Hublot to name but a few.
McQueen is also one third of a trio of presenters for award winning football podcast The Offside Rule.
As a journalist, McQueen was a key contributor to twentyfour7 Football magazine bringing exclusive written feature interviews with the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Roberto Martinez, Steven Gerrard, Paul and Tom Ince, amongst others.
