Storm Keating
Storm Keating is an Australian fashion designer, brand ambassador, producer-director and blogger, now based in London. Keating has worked on a number of Australian and British television programmes such as The Apprentice Australia, Masterchef Australia, The X Factor, The Voice Australia, and The Voice UK. She is the wife of Ronan Keating.
Early life and education
Keating was born in Childers, Australia, the daughter of Gordon Charles Uechtritz, a cattleman. While Keating's official website lists her mother's name as Sharni Raharni, Keating's birth certificate cited in The Independent lists her mother's name as Debra Lynn Uechtritz.Keating's birth name was Sharyn Storm Uechtritz. Her parents loved the name "Storm" used in one of Wilbur Smith's novels, and decided to name her thus. Her parents were worried that because of her name, she might be made fun of, later on in her life and therefore they added the name Sharyn.
Keating grew up in a small village in Papua New Guinea, before her family relocated to a cattle property in Australia in 1988. Keating has three brothers: Wayne Gordon, Graeme Murray and Peter John.
After school, she attended the University of Queensland for three years; she subsequently received an international exchange scholarship to study at University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, for the final year of her degree education.
Career
During her time at the University of California Los Angeles, Keating completed an internship at HBO in the Original Programming Department under Chris Albrecht. It was upon her return to Australia that Keating began her career in television production at Channel Nine in Sydney.In 2009, she worked on the production of the Australian version of NBC’s The Apprentice. From 2010-2012, Keating went on to work with popular formats including The X Factor, Masterchef and The Voice. In 2012, she relocated to London where she became the producer-director of The Voice UK.
Keating moved into fashion design in 2011. She has also collaborated on a range of boots with legendary Italian bootmaker, Stivaleria Cavallin. Called the ‘Storm Boots’, these were launched in February 2015 at the Burberry show during London Fashion Week. In October 2015, Keating was announced as Ambassador for Positive Luxury, a London-based company which globally awards luxury brands with an interactive Trust Mark for meeting sustainability and ethical business criteria.
Keating launched her fashion and lifestyle blog in 2016.
Personal life
Keating married Tim Ivers in August 2009. They had first met while she was studying at the University of Queensland. Their marriage ended in April 2012. She started dating Ronan Keating in August 2011 after she met him on the Australian The X-Factor show. She subsequently married him in August 2015. Storm took Keating's name after marriage. They have 2 children together, Cooper, and in 2019, they announced that they were expecting their second child, a girl, Coco was born March 27, 2020. She is of German, Danish, Samoan and English descent.Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2009 | The Apprentice Australia | Associate Producer |
| 2010 | So You Think You Can Dance Australia | Producer |
| 2010 | The X Factor | Producer |
| 2011 | MasterChef Australia | Producer |
| 2011 | Junior MasterChef Australia | Producer |
| 2012 | The Voice AU | Producer |
| 2013 | The Voice UK | Producer Director |