Hayley McQueen is a British TVsports presenter, reporter, RTS award winning producer, and event host. McQueen is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News and currently the presenter of Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup. Previous to that she hosted Sky Sports' flagship Saturday evening Football First Premier League highlights show Match Choice, when Sky had the rights Hayley anchored the live 3 o'clock Premier League game which is shown exclusively in Ireland with full build up and post match. She is also an awards presenter and regularly hosts corporate events. Alongside her Sky work Hayley presented for Premier League TV worldwide and has appeared as a guest host on BBC5Live 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 SportsChampions League as well as other Sky Sports football programming and once weekly Sportswomen programme. She supports Manchester United, and is the daughter of former Leeds United, Manchester United and Scotlandfootballer and Sky Sports punditGordon McQueen.
Early life
Hayley McQueen was born in Manchester, and also lived in Scotland and Bangkok before settling in Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire in 1994. She has a BA 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 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.
Personal life
McQueen is engaged to German-born model and actor Kirk Newmann. She gave birth to daughter Ayla McQueen-Newmann on 3 October 2019.
