Steph Mcgovern

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Stephanie Rose McGovern (born 31 May 1982) is an English journalist and television presenter.

She worked for the BBC as the main business presenter for BBC Breakfast, often co-hosting the entire programme.

In October 2019 she left to work for Channel 4.

Early life

McGovern was born in 1982 in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, and grew up in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. She is the daughter of professional artist Eamonn McGovern. In 1998, at the start of her sixth form studies, she won an Arkwright Engineering Scholarship for her potential to be a future leader in the engineering industry. From 1998 to 2000, at Macmillan Academy, in the sixth form, she studied maths, physics, design technology and business studies. At the age of 19, she was awarded Young Engineers Clubs' 'Young Engineer for Britain', and during a gap year Year in Industry before a then-planned mechanical engineering degree at Imperial College, McGovern was a junior member of Black & Decker’s Six Sigma team in Spennymoor, saving Black & Decker £150,000 a year by improving production techniques used for the Leaf Hog (Blower/Vacuum/Mulcher) later receiving EEF/Year in Industry Award for Contribution to the Business.

She attended University College London, where, in 2005, she received a BSc for Science Communication and Policy in the Department of Science and Technology Studies. In 2013, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Teesside University.

Personal life

McGovern is a former champion Irish dancer and still often attends international competitions, where she helps to coach dancers. She confirmed on 14 July 2019 that she was pregnant, she and her girlfriend were expecting their first child. On 4 November 2019, McGovern announced that she had given birth to a baby girl. She lives in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

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Career

McGovern started on the BBC as a worker on the Tomorrow's World programme before finding part-time work as a researcher in current affairs. She became the main source for daily financial news on Radio 4's Today programme before becoming the BBC's leading provider of company news on the BBC's One, Six, and Ten O'Clock news bulletins, alongside then business editor Robert Peston.

McGovern has hosted Wake Up to Money and On the Money, as well as a regular host of the entire programme.

She made a cash bid for CBBC using a Pocket Money Pledge. For BBC One, she has co-presented the consumer series Shop Well for Less. Made in the United Kingdom by McGovern in 2018.

From fall 2016, McGovern joined the BBC Watchdog's presenting team. Can Britain Have a Pay Increase? She also co-presented Can Britain Have a Pay Increase? On Have I Got News for You, James O'Brien appears on BBC Two as both a panelist and host.

McGovern said she discovered Donald Trump "creepy" after he referred to her as "beautiful" during an interview in 2012. She is said to have dismissed Trump's remarks by telling him she had heard "better lines" in Middlesbrough's Club Bongo.

McGovern left BBC Breakfast in October 2019 to join Channel 4. At Channel 4's then-new base in Leeds, she had been supposed to host Steph's Talks from spring 2020, but the COVID-based pandemic forced her to host The Steph Show from her front room on March 30, 2020. Steph's Packed Lunch debuted in September 2020 as Steph's Packed Lunch.

She was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021, and she was deemed a "tireless champion for engineering and vocational education" in 2021.

Government events are hosted by McGovernment.

McGovern appeared in the BBC Four series Walking with... in December 2021, while walking in Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales.

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