Trailblazing sports broadcaster Hazel Irvine honoured with special BAFTA award
dailyrecord.co.ukTrailblazing sports broadcaster Hazel Irvine spoke of her delight as she collected a special BAFTA award on Sunday night. Hazel, 59, picked up the special Outstanding Contribution to Television award in recognition of almost 40 years as a sports presenter.
Hazel, who arrived at the BAFTA Scotland bash at Glasgow’s Doubletree by Hilton hotel with former STV Head Sport, Russell Galbraith and his wife Mary as her guests, said: “I am only really standing here because of the good auspices of enlightened guys who gave me a chance and I’m delighted about that.” “I have admired and looked up to these individuals for much of my life.
Thank you to BAFTA Scotland for such an amazing and unexpected honour.” The presenter, who started her career with Radio Clyde in 1986, became one of the UK’s first ever female football pundits for STV’s Sportscene in 1987.
She has covered 18 Winter and Summer Olympics, golf coverage for 25 years, snooker for 23 years and Ski Sunday, for over a decade.
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