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Steph McGovern

Having once met Trump… Ah he’s creepy, man.

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Steph McGovern

I’m proud to be from the North-East.

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Steph McGovern

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn’t from Middlesbrough I wouldn’t have done as well as I have.

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Steph McGovern

I have had people come up to me in the street – one woman actually told me she hated my accent, she can’t believe I’m on the telly and my accent is so annoying. I ended up laughing because I thought, ‘this person doesn’t know me but she felt she could come up and slate my accent.’

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Steph McGovern

I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn’t get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent – it is the key to my identity.

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Steph McGovern

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

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Steph McGovern

The problem in business isn’t that women are overlooked because they are women, it’s that most people subconsciously look to employ a mini-me. It’s not a gender issue, it’s about diversification full stop. It’s hard to change that mindset and it hits women particularly hard because men historically have always been the recruiters.

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Steph McGovern

I remember once at the end of a BBC job interview the manager said to me: ‘I didn’t realise people like you were clever.’ I don’t think he was being intentionally nasty. At that time in the BBC he was surrounded by clones of himself, give or take some facial hair and glasses.

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Steph McGovern

I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so ordinary. But in the places I’ve worked, one or more of these things would put me in the minority.

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Steph McGovern

Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly – that’s just life on camera.

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Steph McGovern

You can either sing or you can’t. And I’m one of the can’ts.

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Steph McGovern

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.

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