Kate presents BBC Radio 2’s weekly show, Good Morning Sunday. She’s a frequently contributes to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought and Songs of Praise (BBC 1).
Kate Bottley Background
The Reverand Kate Bottley’s love affair with the church was peaked by her love for the vicar’s son, which threw her into the world of religion.
She studied secondary religious education with qualified teacher status in 1993, before training to be a religious education teacher in secondary schools. She remained a religious teacher up until 2005, and then trained for ordination by being a vicar’s PA at St Mark’s Church in Grenoside before studying at St John’s College in Nottingham.
Kate was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 2008 and as a priest the following year. She began working at St Andrew’s Church in Skegby in 2008, before becoming the chaplain to North Nottinghamshire College in 2011. She would go on to work at St Mary and St Martin’s Church, Blyth, an associate priest in the Retford Area Team Ministry, and become an honorary Canon of Southwell Minster
TV career
In 2012 Kate did a dance as part of a wedding flashmob which subsequently went viral, with more than seven million hits on YouTube; it was this that led to her being approached by Channel 4’s BAFTA and National Television Award-winning series show Gogglebox.
Kate presented BBC One’s flagship Easter documentary In the Footsteps of Judas’. She is also a frequent contributor to the ‘Pause for Thought’ feature on Chris Evans’ Radio 2 Breakfast Show and has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Independent and Radio Times.
In 2017, Kate journeyed to Camino de Santiago for The Pilgrimage, a three-part travelogue series for BBC 2. As well as this, Kate headed the award-winning documentary In the Footsteps of Judas as a special Easter commission for BBC1.
Kate has also made guest appearances on Celebrity Mastermind (2016), Celebrity Masterchef (2017), The One Show (2017-20), The Hairy Bikers Home for Christmas (2017), Richard Osman’s House of Games (2019), Celebrity Chase (2019), Lorraine (2020), The Wheel (2020-21), Would I Lie To You (2021), Strictly Comes Dancing: It Takes Two (2019-21), The Great British Sewing Bee (2021), Between the Covers (2022), Steph’s Packed Lunch (2020-23), and The Weakest Link (2021) – where she won the £9,000 prize.
TV Projects
Kate is taking a break from full-time parish ministry, but will continue to take church services and officiate at weddings and funerals, as part of a wider remit which will include writing and broadcasting projects. Kate loves telly and dancing. Her karaoke songs of choice are 9 to 5 or Ice, Ice Baby. She is owned by a retired racing greyhound called Buster.
Speaker
Kate is available for Award Hosting, After dinners speeches, motivational talks and conference speaking
Kate is really positive, inspiring and lots of hilarious stories from her experience as a parish priest but also navigating her career through a predominantly male environment. She is an accomplished speaker and event host and feedback includes:
Kate certainly got our conference off to a positive and joy-filled start! As well as mingling with delegates on their arrival prior to her speech, she made time to chat to speakers and organisers afterwards, offering photos and smiles all round. Her energy, enthusiasm, honesty and seem.
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Society of Construction Law( UK) –
Kate was brilliant at the event, the audience loved her enthusiasm and energy.”
Middlesbrough CII Dinner in Middlesbrough –
We chose Kate as the after dinner speaker for our Annual Institute Dinner. Throughout the evening Kate was absolutely fantastic, from speaking with top table guests before the meal to dancing with guests after her speech. Kate’s delivery was flawless, she engaged with everybody in the room and her speech was absolutely brilliant and had one or two people crying with laughter. I couldn’t recommend Kate more highly for any corporate events as her professionalism and humour couldn’t fail to disappoint.
Teaching and Learning Leeds Conference –
Kate certainly got our conference off to a positive and joy-filled start! As well as mingling with delegates on their arrival prior to her speech, she made time to chat to speakers and organisers afterwards, offering photos and smiles all round. Her energy, enthusiasm, honesty and seemingly endless raft of perfectly judged stories really did engage the delegates and provided the perfect bridge between passion for life more generally and renewed faith in our calling. Wit, intelligence and care seem to ooze from Kate and we would not hesitate to recommend her to others seeking a key note. She was only too willing to accommodate us on the pre-event conference call […] giving us her full attention and charm! Every aspect of her approach, both in the lead-up to and on the day itself, has been exemplary, and an inspiration to us all here at GSAL. Our memories of her words and her presence will certainly not fade quickly.
RTS Yorkshire Awards –
Kate did an amazing job at our awards on Friday! She was a joy to work with; her hosting of the event was so adept, so witty, so sparklingly good. Many people have been in touch to say how much they enjoyed it, and all have commented on what a splendid job she did and how she hit exactly the right tone.
Autumn Conference for Derbyshire WI –
Our members really enjoyed her as she was really down to earth and funny.
Rotherham and District Federation of Townswomen’s Guild –
Kate was absolutely brilliant!! She is so approachable. She went round the room speaking to the ladies before she did her ‘stuff’ which was entertaining from start to finish. She fulfilled our criteria of ‘Inspiring Women’ in spades. A lovely person with a huge personality.