Alison Holloway

Journalist

Birthday February 2, 1961

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Bristol, United Kingdom

Age 63 years old

Nationality United Kingdom

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1961

Alison Holloway (born 1961) is an English journalist and producer, now living in the United States.

She was the original presenter of Sky Television's Sky World News Tonight and is now a network television entertainment show producer based in Los Angeles.

Born in London, Holloway began her television career at the age of 17 as a continuity announcer and newsreader at Westward Television.

She then went to HTV West in Bristol, at first, joining the company as a reporter-presenter, then, anchoring HTV News.

1980

Holloway remained with the station through most of the 1980s, combining her news duties with presenting many other local programmes for HTV West, including the Good Neighbour Show and the networked Animal Express.

1987

Holloway married comedian Jim Davidson in 1987, before divorcing him two years later.

1988

She co-presented ITV's Olympic Games coverage in 1988, and moved to Sky at the launch of Sky News in 1989.

1993

She helped launch the Southeast edition of Meridian Tonight in 1993.

1994

She also hosted the current affairs show Newsline, as well as numerous news, game, and quiz shows, and was correspondent for the 1994 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race and ITV's Rugby World Cup, and London-based correspondent for the American syndicated newsmagazines Hard Copy (Paramount Television) and A Current Affair (Fox).

In 1994, she moved from Britain to America to anchor a news magazine, Premier Story and covered the O. J. Simpson murder case and trial.

Remaining in Los Angeles, she later hosted programmes for Court TV, ABC, UPN, Showtime and other channels.

1996

She married television and film producer Burt Kearns in 1996.

They have two children.

2005

In 2005, she was supervising producer and on-air talent for a short-lived revival of Twentieth Television's A Current Affair.

2007

From 2007 to 2013, she was senior supervising producer of the NBC series, America's Got Talent.

She has also worked as director or producer on many series and specials, including Fox's network primetime series The Swan and Kitchen Nightmares, Moochers on CBS, Court TV's documentary film, Death of a Beatle; Fox Television's Bizarre World specials; produced specials for Court TV and Animal Planet.

2010

In 2010, she was executive producer of the TLC series, Inedible to Incredible, starring chef John Besh.

2014

She was consulting producer on American Idol XV, and co-executive producer of two seasons of the Shine America reality competition series, Fake Off for truTV (2014-2015).

Also in 2014, she was co-executive producer of the high-rating two-hour NBC television special, The Sing-Off Holiday Special.

2015

As of August 2015, Holloway was co-executive producer of Little Big Shots, an NBC variety series produced by Warner Bros-Horizon.