Career
Adams started her media career as a graduate trainee at Central Television, concentrating on political and news journalism - her first coup was a one hour interview with Margaret Thatcher. For the next few years, Adams remained focused on hard news when in early 1988 moved to Scottish Television's nightly news programme, Scotland Today. She was one of the first journalists on the scene of the Lockerbie disaster in 1988. in 1992, a chance opportunity to host a discussion show for Scottish Television after its original anchor Sheena McDonald left, set her off on a different path. Scottish Women ran for six years under Adams chair (1993–99), and won a number of awards and marked the start of Adams' career as a talk show host.
Since her original success with Scottish Women, she has presented "ITV Weekend Live", three series of "Central Weekend Live" with Nicky Campbell and John Stapleton; Esther and latterly "Kaye" for BBC2; and Pride and Prejudice for BBC Scotland. Adams co-presented the last ever This Morning before Richard and Judy left, while in 2002 she was This Morning 's daily live anchor from Australia, reporting on the first series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
Adams anchored the ITV daytime talk show, Loose Women, where combined with the rest of the female panel she created a popular and engaging mix of topical issues and entertainment. In August 2007 she confirmed in her newspaper column that after 7 years, she decided that she wanted to move on to other projects and would not be returning.
She has also presented a daytime show called The People Versus, appeared in Countdown's Dictionary Corner, as well as a panellist and latterly as chair of Have I Got News For You.
A co-patron with Elaine Smith for Special Needs Information Point now called Kindred, a Scottish based charity supporting families of young people with disabilities, Adams and Ross Kelly won £125,000 on a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Between 2007-2010, Adams regularly guest hosted and was a panellist on Five's The Wright Stuff, however her appearances currently are very low, due to her daily radio show on BBC Scotland Call Kaye. Adams narrated a six-part documentary series The Merchant Navy on STV in late 2008.
In May 2009, Adams returned to STV, more than 20 years after her first appearance on the station, as a guest co-host on the new daily lifestyle programme The Hour alongside Stephen Jardine. The show launched on Tuesday 26 May at 5pm, and Adams presented four shows. In August of that year, Kaye Adams joined a long team of reporters on The One Show. Adams took part in a celebrity version of TV show Total Wipeout which aired on 26 December 2009.
In March 2010, Adams joined BBC Radio Scotland to become the host of daily phone-in programme, Call Kaye. Having reported on the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 for STV, she narrated a special documentary, The Lockerbie Bomber: Sent Home to Die for the Scottish television channel on 9 August 2010. The programme examined the Lockerbie bomber's conviction and the renewed controversy over the Scottish Government's decision to send him home to Libya on compassionate grounds a year ago.
She has also sat in for Richard Bacon on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Adams writes a weekly column for the Daily Record, is a personal and confidence coach, and a mentor for young journalists
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