Caron Louisa Keating was a Northern Irish television presenter.
Born on October 5, 1962, in Fulham, London, United Kingdom, she was the daughter of TV personality Gloria Hunniford and BBC producer, Don Keating.
After serving her apprenticeship as a presenter in her native Northern Ireland, she landed a prime job presenting the long-established BBC TV children’s arts and variety show “Blue Peter”.
She was the first female Blue Peter presenter to bring a sense of fashion to the show and consequently an appeal to slightly older female viewers.
Caron left Blue Peter in 1990 to look after her new family, but returned to broadcasting in 1996 as a stand-in co-presenter on “This Morning”.
She then moved to host the consumer affairs show “We Can Work It Out”, the magazine format series “Summer Scene” and co-presented “Family Affairs” with her mother.
Caron Keating Death
Caron Keating died on April 13, 2004, at her mother’s house in Sevenoaks, Kent after a seven-year breast cancer battle.
Keating was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She moved to Byron Bay in Australia to seek complementary therapy but cancer spread to her spine and she died.
Caron Keating Last Photo
Caron Keating Foundation
The Caron Keating Foundation set up in Keating’s memory by Gloria Hunniford and her sons Paul and Michael, is a fund-raising charity established to raise money for cancer charities.
Caron Keating Funeral
On April 20, 2004, Caron’s funeral service took place at Hever Church, in Edenbridge, Kent – the same church where Keating was married.
She was buried at St Peter Churchyard Hever, Sevenoaks District, Kent, England.
Caron Keating Last Interview
In 2004, in a remarkably moving interview with the ITV1, Caron Keating’s husband Russ Lindsay revealed how brave Caron defied the ravages of the illness – and always hid the extent of her suffering from their sons.
According to Russ, “To her, cancer was a failure, illness was a failure”.
Caron Keating Wedding
Caron Keating and Russ Lindsay married in Tunbridge Wells, Kent in 1991.
Caron Keating Age Died
Caron Keating was 41 at the time of her demise.