admin @ Sat, 2006-09-02 11:00
Hayley - whose dad is Scots football legend Gordon - is taking over the hot seat from Kelly, who has fronted Sky Sports News coverage since the channel's launch.
She said: "I'm gutted Kelly is leaving. She was one of the first people to speak to me when I first started on Sky and I'd love to one day be as good as Kelly.
"She said to relax in front of the camera and act as if I'm sitting chatting in my front room. For too long sports reporting was men interviewing men about men.
Kelly will make her final appearance on Sky later this month after quitting her £100,000-a-year job so she has more time to plan her wedding to Tom Cates.
Hayley, who went to school in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, studied journalism at university and cut her teeth in TV as a runner on shows such as Richard And Judy.
In fact, she admits her first schoolgirl crush was on ex-Rangers star Ally McCoist. She said: "My sister and I had a bit of a thing about him when we were young girls." "We named our cat Ally after him and, 14 years later, he is still going strong."
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