After years as the BBC Breakfast business presenter, Steph McGovern is returning to the broadcaster with her brand new show, The Big Deal.
Many fans will remember her on the breakfast sofa, but since leaving the programme in 2019, she’s been more regularly seen on Channel 4 with Steph’s Packed Lunch, which went off the air in 2023.
Now she’s returning to the Beeb for a new show that takes a dive into the art world, with aspiring art dealers battling it out to prove their worth.
The journalist and presenter, 44, is a well-known face on our TV screens, with appearances on the likes of Netflix’s Celebrity Bear Hunt, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and The Masked Dancer.
With her coming back to our screens, let’s dive into a little bit more about what we know about the life of the multi-faceted presenter away from the screens.
Steph McGovern has often kept her relationship and personal life pretty private, but it is known that she has a girlfriend and that they have been together for a number of years.
The couple live together in North Tyneside.
McGovern, 44, will often post about family day’s out but keeps her partner out of view in order to protect their privacy.
Speaking with The Express in 2022 about her relationship, McGovern said ‘I would just get too mad if I started reading negative things about them. My daughter has no choice and my partner’s not in the public eye, so I wouldn’t want to subject them to the opinions of others.’
She opened up more to Yours Magazine when discussing the key to maintaining a healthy relationship: ‘What I’ve learned about relationships is you have to put in the effort.
‘It’s about listening. For example, if I’m ill, I like to be left alone to get on with it – no fuss. Whereas my partner likes to be taken care of.’
The couple have a ‘brilliant rule’ she added. ‘If we’re miffed about something, we have 24 hours in which to voice it. It means we have some cracking rows, but we solve things fairly quickly.
‘It might be over something small like the dishwasher, but that’s the reason why you’ve got 24 hours to make your point… so it doesn’t grow into a massive collection of things one of us has done.’
McGovern and her partner have one child, a girl, whom they welcomed in November 2019.
Steph revealed on Twitter on November 8, 2019 that she had given birth on Monday of that week.
