Storm Huntley's life off screen and awful accident that scarred her for life
Storm Huntley has become a hit with Channel 5 viewers as Jeremy Vine's sidekick - so much so, that there has been mounting speculation that the presenter could replace Holly Willoughby on This Morning. Since Holly, 42, left the ITV daytime show for 'her family', a number of fingers have pointed at Storm to step into her shoes.
However the 36-year-old Glaswegian favourite, who joined Channel 5 eight years ago, has cheekily put an end to the rumours. She responded: "Very flattering but I think there may be a scheduling issue there," alongside a tongue-sticking-out emoji, which suggests she is in no rush to leave her current role behind.
The TV star, who also presented the CBeebies show Down on the Farm, first began working on the Matthew Wright Show before moving on to its replacement, Jeremy Vine. Before that, the high achiever studied politics and economics at the University of Glasgow and spent a year working as an unpaid runner, leading to a job on the travel desk at BBC Scotland.
Carol Smillie officiated Storm's wedding to Kerr Okan (carolsmillieofficial/Instagram)When the travel desk merged with the weather desk, she decided to take an Open University course in meteorology and went on to become a weather reporter for Scottish TV station, STV. Away from TV, the raven-haired star is married to LaFontaines frontman Kerr Okan, and Changing Rooms host Carol Smillie officiated their wedding on the shores of Loch Lomond in 2021.
It turns out nineties BBC star Carol, 59, quit TV to become a celebrant back in her native Scotland. "Carol Smillie, who's now Carol Knight, does humanist ceremonies now and she was our registrar and she was phenomenal, absolutely brilliant," Storm said.
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"She's a friend of our friend of ours and we didn't know that she did humanist ceremonies, so it was kind of per chance. So Carole came along and married us." Last year, Storm and Kerr welcomed their first born, a son called Otis. Storm took just 12 weeks of maternity leave while Dawn Neesom covered for her, and she's already thinking about a second child. "I was an only child and I don't want Otis to be an only child," she told the Daily Mail. "I think it's really important to have a sibling.
"So we are discussing at the moment when we will start trying for the next one." It was in Storm's own childhood that she suffered a horrifying accident that left her permanently scarred. The star always wears long sleeves on TV and explained it is to hide the results of the scalding accident when she was just 18 months old. She suffered first and second degree burns after pulling a boiling kettle over when she was just a toddler.
Storm welcomed son Otis last year (Instagram)
Storm took 12 weeks of maternity leave before returning to the show (@StormHuntley)Recalling the incident, she told the Daily Record: "I've got some fairly big scars on my arm and torso, from when I foolishly poured a kettle of boiling water over myself. It was all over my face, too, but that has healed differently from the rest of the scars on my neck, my shoulder, my tummy, and my arm. It was pretty bad but luckily I didn't need to get any skin grafts."
Addressing her choice to keep her scars hidden, she continued: "I love fashion, and I like to be smart, so wearing long sleeves that cover my scars isn't difficult. I like to think of myself as part rock-chick, and part Audrey Hepburn, so I like to mix those two looks together. I'd say I'm big on style but not on fashion, so I like to wear things that suit me rather than following fashion."
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