Education
Hawkins attended the Bishop Luffa School in Chichester, and the University of Manchester from where she graduated with a Bachelor in English Literature.
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Career
Hawkins joined Independent Television"s Meridian Tonight in 2003, hosting its main news programme, leaving in 2006 to become co-presenter of Sky"s breakfast programme Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes. In 2014, she left Sky and currently co-presents the Independent Television Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain. She later undertook a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the London College of Printing.
Hawkins began her broadcasting career with ITN in 1999 as a news reader and reporter for LBC Radio.
She was one of the first journalists at the fatal Paddington rail crash and provided live reports from the scene. In January 2000, she moved to Independent Television Meridian in the southeast where she co-presented the hour-long current affairs series The Big Story.
From October 2003, Hawkins worked for Independent Television Meridian as co-anchor of their main news programme Meridian Tonight in the South East of England. She also presented on the Independent Television News Channel.
At Meridian, she presented several pan-regional documentaries, including the half-hour special Britain on the Move.
In 2007, Hawkins co-presented The London Boat Show for Independent Television. Hawkins left Meridian in December 2006 to join Sky News in January 2007, where she presented Sunrise each Monday to Thursday with Eamonn Holmes. In March 2014, she left the channel. Hawkins presented several stints on Five News, in the absence of stand-in Matt Barbet who was providing maternity leave cover for main presenter Natasha Kaplinsky, for a period in 2010.
In 2010, she was an occasional guest news reviewer on the Independent Television programme This Morning.
Hawkins also presented the Sky Arts documentary Andre Rieu: Behind the Music. On 3 March 2014, Hawkins was confirmed as a presenter on Independent Television Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain.
She made her last appearance on Sky News Sunrise on 6 March 2014 and made her debut on Good Morning Britain on 28 April 2014, where she co-hosts the show with Ben Shephard, Sean Fletcher and Susanna Reid from 6 to 8.30am, every day except Thursdays & Fridays. On 22 January 2015, Hawkins presented her final show before going on maternity leave.
She returned on the show on 15 June 2015.
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