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Naga Munchetty
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Munchetty in 2021
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Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah
25 February 1975 Streatham, London, England
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| Education | Graveney School |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
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Notable credit(s)
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BBC Breakfast, BBC World News, BBC News, Newsnight, Working Lunch, Sunday Morning Live, Victoria Derbyshire, GMT, The Hub |
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James Haggar
(m. 2004) |
Naga Munchetty (born 25 February 1975) is a well-known English television presenter and journalist. She is best known for being a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast. She has also presented for BBC World News and the financial show Working Lunch on BBC Two.
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Early Life and Education
Naga Munchetty was born in Streatham, South London, and grew up there. Her mother is from Tamil Nadu, India, and her father is from Mauritius. They met while studying in Wales; her mother was training to be a dentist, and her father was training to be a nurse.
Naga went to Graveney School in Tooting. Later, she studied English Literature and Language at the University of Leeds, finishing her degree in 1997. Her first jobs were writing for the City Pages of the London Evening Standard and the Business Section of The Observer.
Television Career
Naga Munchetty started her TV career as a reporter for Reuters Financial Television. She then worked as a senior producer for CNBC Europe. She was also a business producer and reporter for Channel 4 News and a presenter on Bloomberg Television.
Working on BBC Shows
Naga joined Working Lunch in October 2008 and stayed until the show ended in July 2010. She has also hosted Radio 4's Money Box. She reported from the City for BBC News, explaining how financial news like the Budget affected people.
Since August 2010, Naga has presented early morning news on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. She is a regular presenter on BBC One's popular show, BBC Breakfast.
Radio and Other Appearances
From January 2021, Naga started presenting a show on BBC Radio 5 Live from Monday to Wednesday mornings. She also co-hosted The Spending Review – The South Today Debate on BBC One in September 2010.
Naga presented Paranormal Investigation: Live on Living for Halloween in 2010. She also narrated a BBC documentary called Fear and Faith in Paris, which looked at anti-Semitic attacks in Paris.
Game Shows and Special Programs
Naga won Celebrity Mastermind in 2013. In June 2016, she became the presenter of Sunday Morning Live on BBC One.
She was a contestant on the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2016, dancing with Pasha Kovalev. They were voted off in week four. In October 2017, she co-presented Britain's Classroom Heroes.
In 2017, Naga joined the cast of the CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed. She played a funny version of herself as a Media Studies teacher who acted like a newsreader.
On Boxing Day 2022, Naga appeared on the BBC quiz show The Weakest Link. She also hosted Have I Got News for You twice in 2023.
Important Discussions
In July 2018, Naga interviewed David Attenborough on Breakfast. Some people found the interview a bit awkward because Naga asked him questions about the royal family that were not related to the main topic of butterflies.
In September 2019, Naga made comments on BBC Breakfast about US President Donald Trump's words. She said that being told to "go back to where you came from" felt like racism to her as a woman of colour. The BBC first said her comments broke their rules, but many people disagreed. Later, the Director-General of the BBC, Tony Hall, changed the decision after looking into it himself. This showed how important it is for news presenters to be fair and for the public to discuss important issues.
Personal Life and Hobbies
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Naga Munchetty married James Haggar, who works as a broadcast consultant for ITV, in 2004. They live in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
Naga enjoys playing music; she plays both jazz trumpet and classical piano. She also loves playing golf and is quite good at it. In 2012, she won the Hertfordshire de Paula Cup. She is now on the committee of Moor Park Golf Club and helps with their annual Charity Golf Day.
She is also a trustee for a local theatre called Watersmeet and a governor at St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth. In 2022, Naga was diagnosed with adenomyosis, a health condition, and she shared this information in May 2023 on her BBC Radio 5 Live programme.
