page_title: Steph McGovern
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Steph McGovern / Career
caption_attribution_description: &lt;a href="http://unctad.org/Symposium2013" rel="nofollow"&gt;unctad.org/Symposium2013&lt;/a&gt; - Ms. Stephanie McGovern, Business Presenter of BBC Breakfast at the Plenary Session II: Trade and Investment Rules for Inclusive and Sustainable Development UNCTAD Public Symposium 25 June 2013
context_page_description: Stephanie Rose McGovern is an English journalist and television presenter. She currently hosts The Steph Show on Channel 4. She worked for the BBC as the main business presenter for BBC Breakfast, often co-hosting the entire programme.
context_section_description: McGovern started at the BBC doing work experience on the Tomorrow's World programme, before securing part-time employment as a researcher in current affairs. She went on to be the main producer for daily financial news on the Today programme on Radio 4, before becoming the lead producer of business news on the BBC's One, Six and Ten O'Clock news bulletins, working with the then business editor, Robert Peston.
  McGovern has presented BBC Radio 5 Live's  Wake Up to Money and On the Money and has been BBC Breakfast's main business presenter since 2010 as well as a regular presenter of the entire show.
  She presented Pocket Money Pitch for CBBC. Since March 2016, she has co-presented the consumer series Shop Well for Less with Alex Jones for BBC One.  
  McGovern joined the BBC Watchdog presenting team from autumn 2016. She also co-presented Can Britain Have a Pay Rise? for BBC Two alongside James O'Brien and has been both a panellist and host on Have I Got News for You.
  In October 2018, McGovern stated that she found Donald Trump "creepy" after he referred to her as "beautiful" during an interview in 2012. She is said to have brushed off Trump's comments by telling him she had heard "better lines" in Middlesbrough's Club Bongo.
  McGovern left BBC Breakfast in October 2019 to join Channel 4. She had been expected to host Steph’s Talks from spring 2020 at Channel 4's then-new base in Leeds, however the COVID-19 pandemic meant that she began presenting The Steph Show from her front room on 30 March 2020.
caption: McGovern serving as a moderator at an UNCTAD conference in 2013
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