Konnie Huq

Kanak Konnie Asha Huq is a British television presenter and writer. She is the longestserving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it fromDecember 1997 untilJanuary 2008. She presented the 2010 series of The Xtra Factor on ITV2.

Huq was born in Hammersmith, west London to Sunni Muslim Bangladeshi parents who had emigrated to England in the 1960s. She grew up in Ealing, west London, with her two elder sisters, Rupa and Nutun. She was educated at Notting Hill amp Ealing High School in London and left school with nine GCSEs and Alevels in physics, mathematics and chemistry. Huq studied sciences for her ALevels, but chose to study economics at Robinson College, Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge University with adegree.

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