Mary Nightingale

Mary presents ITV1’s Evening News, and has twice been named Newscaster of the Year by TRIC. In April 2006, Mary presented The Girl Who Would be Queen on ITV1 – an intimate portrait of the Queen on her 80th Birthday where Mary was given exclusive access to the Royal Family’s home-movie collection.

Mary joined ITV’s News casting team in 2001 and won the accolade the next year, and again in 2004. She played a key role in ITV’s General Election night programme in 2005 as she did in 2001.

Mary anchored ITV’s flagship holiday programme Wish You Were Here from 1999-2001 and also presented The Really Good Food Show, I-Spy and Most Wanted. She’s voiced two series of Real Bad Girls for ITV and hosted her own programme for Classic FM entitled Dreaming Aloud – a series of intimate interviews with guests including Stephen Fry and Gordon Ramsay.

Mary started her journalism career as a presenter and writer on World Business Satellite for TV Tokyo – a live daily business bulletin. She then joined BBC World Service Television’s World Business Report as a presenter and writer, covering economic and corporate news.