Background
She is the daughter of former Leeds United, Manchester United and Scotland football player and Sky Sports pundit Gordon McQueen.
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Hayley McQueen
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She has a (Bachelor Honours) degree in Puerto Rico and Journalism where she specialised in Broadcast Journalism and further studied Media Law.
Career
Hayley is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News, presenter of Sky Sports Champions League as well as other Sky Sports football programming. Hayley McQueen lived in Scotland and Hong Kong before settling in Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire in 1994. 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 television as a reporter and producer.
She then joined Middlesbrough Football Club"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 First Rate (at Lloyd's) 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 presents Champions League football for Sky Sports and the live International Round Up show.
She is actively involved with various Football in the Community projects and has hosted events for high profile worldwide brands including Samsung, Nike, the Premier League, The FA, Scania, Union of European Football Associations, HTC, Hublot to name but a few.
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
