Former Blue Peter star Katy Hill has spoken candidly about the cruel comment from a producer that contributed to her decision to leave the television industry. The 55-year-old, who now works as a certified confidence and success coach, appeared at Fearne Cotton's Happy Place festival over the weekend, where she shared behind-the-scenes photos with her 44,200 Instagram followers.
In a podcast interview last year, Hill revealed that a senior Blue Peter producer told her she was 'a bigger girl' and didn't 'carry yourself very well on camera' when she was a size 12-14. The comment left her feeling insecure, despite the show's massive audience of 15 million viewers. Hill, who joined Blue Peter in 1994 and left in 2001, went on to present Top of the Pops, Live & Kicking, and a weekend breakfast show on Capital FM.
She eventually walked away from her on-screen career in 2017, retraining as a coach to help others overcome fear and live intentionally. 'I was living life by default, not design,' she said earlier this year. 'Many years of training and a lot of qualifications later, I became an internationally certified coach.' Hill now lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, TV producer Trey Farley, and their two children, Kaya, 19, and Akira, 15.
