Charlotte Hawkins



Charlotte Hawkins (born 16 May 1975) is a British television news presenter for Sky News, where she is currently the summary presenter for Sunrise and the presenter for Sky News with Charlotte Hawkins. On 3 March 2014 it was announced Hawkins would become a presenter on the new ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain alongside Susanna Reid, Ben Shephard and Sean Fletcher.

Early life
Hawkins attended the Bishop Luffa School in Chichester, and the University of Manchester from where she graduated with a BA in English Literature. She later undertook a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the London College of Printing.

Broadcasting career
Hawkins started her broadcasting career with ITN in 1999 as a news reader and reporter for LBC Radio. She was one of the first journalists at the fatal Paddington rail crash and provided live reports from the scene. In January 2000, She moved to ITV Meridian in the southeast and co-presented the hour-long current affairs series The Big Story.

Hawkins worked for ITV Meridian from October 2003, as the co-anchor of its main news programme Meridian Tonight, in the South East of England. She also presented on the ITV News Channel. At Meridian she presented several pan-regional documentaries, including a half-hour special, Britain on the Move. In 2007, Charlotte co-presented The London Boat Show for ITV1.

She left Meridian in December 2006 to join Sky News in January 2007, where she now presents news updates on Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes each weekday.

Charlotte presented several stints on Five News, in the absence of stand-in Matt Barbet who was providing maternity leave cover for main presenter Natasha Kaplinsky, for a period in 2010. She is also an occasional guest news reviewer on ITV programme This Morning.

Charlotte presents her own show for an hour each morning on Sky News from 9am.

On 3 March 2014, it was announced Hawkins would become a presenter on the new ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain, which she will co-host alongside Sean Fletcher. She made her final appearance on Sky News on March 6 2014.

Personal life
Hawkins married her partner of five years, Mark Herbert, over the 2008 August Bank Holiday weekend. The ceremony took place at Chichester Cathedral where Hawkins' uncle is a clergyman. Charlotte spends a lot of her time outdoors and enjoys horse riding, cycling and sailing. She is also passionate about animals and owns a rescue dog named Bailey.