{{Short description|English TV presenter}} {{Use British English|date=March 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Hayley McQueen | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|12|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Manchester, England<ref name="Hello">{{cite magazine|title = Exclusive! Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen on the World Cup, meeting her fiancé on Tinder and wedding plans|magazine=Hello Magazine|url = https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2018070449987/sky-sports-hayley-mcqueen-discusses-world-cup-wedding-plans-hello/|date = 4 July 2018|accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref> | years_active = present | occupation = Television presenter | employer = Sky Sports | children = 1 }}
'''Hayley McQueen''' (born 9 December 1979) is a British TV sports presenter, reporter, RTS award-winning producer, and event host. She is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News and the presenter of Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup. Prior to that, she hosted Sky Sports' flagship Saturday evening Football First Premier League highlights show ''Match Choice.''
McQueen is also an awards presenter and regularly hosts corporate events. Alongside her Sky work, she presented for Premier League TV worldwide and has appeared as a guest host on BBC 5 Live football phone-in show, as well 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, as well as other Sky Sports football programming and once weekly ''Sportswomen'' programme.<ref name="TopSkyRole">{{cite web|url=http://www.mfc.co.uk/articles/20100727/hayley-lands-top-sky-role-_70639_2102155 |title=Hayley Lands Top Sky Role |publisher=Middlesbrough FC |accessdate=15 March 2011 |date=27 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819044231/http://www.mfc.co.uk/articles/20100727/hayley-lands-top-sky-role-_70639_2102155 |archivedate=19 August 2010 }}</ref>
==Early life== McQueen was born in 1979 in Manchester, and also lived in Scotland and Bangkok, before settling in Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire in 1994.{{CN|date=May 2022}}
==Television career== McQueen began her television career working as a runner and production assistant for Richard and Judy<ref name=SkyProf>[http://www.skysports.com/skysportsnews/presenter/0,28697,19455,00.html Hayley McQueen] Sky Sports</ref> 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<ref name=TopSkyRole/> before being head hunted by Sky Sports News where she became a presenter.<ref name=SkyProf/>
She also presented on Fox Sports.<ref>[http://uk.askmen.com/top_10/celebrity/top-10-hottest-women-on-british-tv_6.html Top 10: Hottest Women On British TV] Ask Men UK</ref> McQueen left Sky Television in December 2006 and took up a position on MUTV,<ref>[http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Club-News/2006/Nov/MUTV-gets-a-makeover.aspx?pageNo=1 MUTV gets a makeover] ManUtd.com, 27 November 2006</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Club-News/2010/Apr/Whats-on-MUTV.aspx?pageNo=2 Pick of the Week] ManUtd.com, 7 February 2011</ref>
McQueen then hosted the Daily World Cup show for Al Jazeera Sports with Scott Minto throughout the 2010 tournament.<ref>[http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar-sport/5449-al-jazeera-sport-begins-live-studio-world-cup-coverage.html Al Jazeera Sport begins live studio World Cup coverage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614054649/http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar-sport/5449-al-jazeera-sport-begins-live-studio-world-cup-coverage.html |date=14 June 2010 }} The Peninsular, 5 June 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/the-mole/Hayley-McQueen-leaves-Paraguay-v-Japan-game-at-half-time-to-get-pedicure-The-Mole-Column-article513271.html Babe Hayley is such a polished performer] Mirror Football, 3 July 2010</ref> She returned to Sky Sports in August 2010 as they launched Sky Sports News in HD.<ref name=TopSkyRole/><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/can-sky-sports-news-keep-punching-above-its-weight-2043387.html Can Sky Sports News keep punching above its weight?] The Independent, 5 August 2010</ref>
==Personal life== McQueen is the daughter of former footballer Gordon McQueen.<ref name="Trades">{{cite web |date=30 July 2008 |title=Hayley McQueen - Life at the "Theatre of Dreams" |url=http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=10481 |accessdate=15 March 2011 |work=The Trades |publisher=Burlee LLC}}</ref>
She was engaged to German-born model and actor Kirk Newmann in 2018.<ref name="Hello" /> She gave birth to a daughter on 3 October 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/sky-sports-presenter-hayley-mcqueen-besotted-with-new-baby-daughter-as-she-shares-first-photos-10864818/|title=Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen 'besotted' after birth of baby girl|date=4 October 2019}}</ref>
She supports Manchester United.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.audible.com/pd/Life-Goals-with-Theo-Delaney-Hayley-McQueen-Podcast/B08XM2TXRY|title=Life Goals with Theo Delaney - Hayley McQueen|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-11|title=20 years of MUTV: Presenter Hayley McQueen reacts to hilarious prank caller|url=https://strettynews.com/2018/09/11/20-years-of-mutv-the-best-moment-forcing-presenter-hayley-mcqueen-to-cut-short-phone-in/|access-date=2021-05-05|website=Stretty News|language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{twitter|HayleyMcQueen}} * {{instagram|mcqueenhayley}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.skysports.com/skysportsnews/presenter/0,28697,19455,00.html |title=Profile - Hayley McQueen |work=Sky Sports | archive-url=https://archive.today/20110414055144/http://www.skysports.com/skysportsnews/presenter/0,28697,19455,00.html |archive-date=14 April 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=5 May 2011}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:McQueen, Hayley}} Category:English television presenters Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:English people of Scottish descent Category:Sky Sports presenters and reporters