Kate Gerbeau is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. She launched, as main presenter, the UK's first ever television channel about the Armed Forces and Defence aimed at both the military community and the wider public. From 2010—22 she anchored its nightly news programme, British Forces News, broadcast both on Forces TV and BFBS. On radio she hosts a weekly half hour Defence and International Affairs programme on BFBs, SitRep which won a Sony Award in 2012. Her work for BFBS and Forces TV granted her access to a wide range of interviewees, from the Prime Minister to the Head of the Armed Forces to Formula One racing drivers. Kate also presented the podcast series The Case Files (2019-20). Kate's network television...
Kate Gerbeau is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. She launched, as main presenter, the UK’s first ever television channel about the Armed Forces and Defence aimed at both the military community and the wider public. From 2010—22 she anchored its nightly news programme, British Forces News, broadcast both on Forces TV and BFBS. On radio she hosts a weekly half hour Defence and International Affairs programme on BFBs, SitRep which won a Sony Award in 2012. Her work for BFBS and Forces TV granted her access to a wide range of interviewees, from the Prime Minister to the Head of the Armed Forces to Formula One racing drivers. Kate also presented the podcast series The Case Files (2019-20).
Kate’s network television career began in 1997 (after working in Regional TV and radio) when she became the presenter of Newsround, the BBC’s longest running news programme for children. During her 4 years there, she reported live from the earthquake in Gujarat, from the foot of a live volcano in Montserrat, and won BAFTA for her undercover investigation into the treatment of disabled orphans in Russia.
Kate went on to be a regular newsreader on BBC Breakfast (BBC 1), co-presented the corporation’s consumer programme Watchdog, and was a regular reporter and presenter on the BBC1 Sunday morning programme Heaven and Earth. She left the BBC in 2004 to join the relaunch of Five News, where she fronted the live, daily, lunchtime programme for 3 years, interviewing a broad range of guests from pop stars to politicians. Kate also presented a range of other programmes for Five News, including a live tomb excavation from the desert in Egypt and an animal rescue series.
In 2023, Kate joined Times Radio, where she presents Frontline, a podcast about the war in Ukraine.
Kate holds a BA in French and German from the University of Bristol and loves languages. She is fluent in French, speaks German and is learning Spanish. She’s also an animal lover and keen horse rider, enjoying competitive show jumping. She can also swing a (golf) club and enjoys scuba diving.
Kate is married to French “serial entrepreneur” PY Gerbeau and the couple has one daughter.
