Inside BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay's marriage to famous wife - and her very different career

Jon Kay has been astatine the helm of BBC Breakfast for a fewer years aft replacing longtime presenter Dan Walker. But who is Jon joined to, and however did they meet?

BBC Breakfast presenter Jon Kay wakes up astatine the ace of dawn to big the well-loved flagship quality programme during weekdays alongside Sally Nugent. While helium spends astir of his clip connected surface interviewing politicians and celebrated faces, he's besides a joined father-of-three who met his wife, Francesca Kasteliz, astatine enactment successful the 1990s.

Jon and Francesca met portion moving astatine BBC Bristol successful 1998 erstwhile they were some journalists. Similar to Jon, Franscesca started retired arsenic a trainee quality newsman earlier moving to section TV and radio.

She roseate to the fertile of TV & Radio News Correspondent astatine BBC National Network News successful 1999 earlier securing a relation arsenic an Assistant News Editor astatine BBC News.

Francesca has a batch to beryllium arrogant of, too, arsenic she has assorted awards, including a Royal Television Society Award for Best News Item portion she was astatine BBC News.

However, her clip arsenic a writer ended respective years later, successful 2006, erstwhile she decided to person a vocation shake-up and go a Senior Coach and Trainer astatine the BBC Academy earlier being employed arsenic an interior manager for the corporation.

She's progressive connected Twitter and posted a throwback drawback from her clip reporting for the BBC successful airy of her followers. In it, she was seen lasting extracurricular the Conservative Party's Central Office wearing a lilac-coloured garment paired with a achromatic jacket. Her hairsbreadth was short, airy brownish and voluminous and swept to the near broadside of her face.

The erstwhile broadcaster captioned the post: "My lad recovered this aged footage connected the net and howled with laughter. Mainly astatine my hairstyle I think. Well, it was 1999."

Francesca present works arsenic a TV presenter manager astatine TV Coach Limited. She offers show coaching for on-air endowment to assistance clients moving for places specified arsenic Channel 4, the BBC and CBBC.

On her website, she wrote: "My peculiar passionateness is helping women and young radical find their dependable on-air and successful the TV industry."

Away from work, she and her hubby Jon person 3 children and an adorable 14-year-old cocker spaniel.

Francesca precocious spoke connected Maria Andreas Newman's podcast, What the Mum, astir raising her children, telling listeners: "I deliberation there's a batch astir however we're brought up arsenic children. This makes maine truly question however I bring up excavation — I've got 2 boys and a girl, truthful I'm ever reasoning astir however I'm treating them, and I don't privation to dainty them differently."

She added: "I'm trying to springiness them the aforesaid values. There's a batch astir society's unit connected women. This statement astir being bossy if we talk up. That inactive exists, but I deliberation it's getting better."

The mates and their children reside successful Bristol, with Jon often sharing updates astir his vocation and idiosyncratic beingness with his Instagram followers.