Gaynor Barnes
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Gaynor Louise Barnes (born 27 September 1961) is a British presenter and journalist who was employed by ITV Yorkshire.
Gaynor is a patron of Yorkshire Air Ambulance[1] & The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract.[2]
Early life[]
She was born in Uxbridge in Middlesex. From 1973-78 she went to St Dominic's Independent Grammar School for Girls (St Dominic's Sixth Form College since 1979) in Harrow on the Hill. From 1978-80 she went to the independent Heathfield School in Harrow.
Career[]
BBC[]
From 1980-91 she worked for the BBC in London as a research assistant in news and current affairs. During this time she worked on BBC Question Time.[3] After training as a journalist, Gaynor worked on local radio stations and on Breakfast Time, Newsnight, and Panorama.[4]
ITV[]
She became a presenter for Calendar on 24 June 1991.[5]
Gaynor co-presented the South edition of Calendar from January 2007,[6] however she was redeployed as a newsreader in February 2009, following the merger of North/South editions.[7] Her colleague Christine Talbot took leave from co-presenting Calendar in January 2012, with Barnes acting as her fill-in for the remainder of the year; from January 2013 she was a news correspondent. In late 2014, Barnes replaced Kate Walby as the Friday female co-presenter, and as presenting the bulletins during Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday's, also as a relief presenter/newsreader when Talbot is absent.
Gaynor also presented the now-defunct magazine programme Tonight (between 1996 and 2000) and was the out-of-vision co-host for the 1997 Challenge TV remake of Winner Takes All.
After three decades, it was announced along with regular Friday co-presenter, John Shires, that they would be both leaving ITV Yorkshire at the end of March 2021.[8]
On 30 September 2021 Gaynor was awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award along with four of her fellow Calendar presenters at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Programme Awards[9]
References[]
- ^ "Yorkshire Air Ambulance Annual Report 2017" (PDF). Yorkshire Air Ambulance Annual Report. March 2018.
- ^ "Calendar Presenters Become Patrons". The Prince of Wales Hospice. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "TV Presenter Gaynor Barnes talks to Yorkshire Life". Yorkshire Life. 11 January 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ Berry, Chris (13 May 2005). "The Southern 'softie' with northern grit". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ "Meet the team". ITV Calendar. 31 January 2019.
- ^ Zientek, Henryk (19 November 2008). "Help for entrepreneurs". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ TV Presenter Gaynor Barnes talks to Yorkshire Life Yorkshire Life, 11 January 2010
- ^ "John Shires and Gaynor Barnes to leave ITV News Calendar". ITV News. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ "RTS Yorkshire Programme Awards 2021". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
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- British television newsreaders and news presenters
- English television journalists
- English television presenters
- ITV regional newsreaders and journalists
- People from the London Borough of Harrow
- People from Uxbridge
- Living people
- 1961 births
- British women television journalists