Keating was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She died in 2004 after losing her battle with breast cancer. She died at the age of 42. The former Blue presenter from Northern Ireland was Gloria Hunniford’s daughter
Ms Keating died at her mother’s home in Kent after a seven-year battle with cancer. She was married to Russ Lindsay and the mother of two boys, Charlie and Gabriel. Her family home remained in Fowey, Cornwall, and she spent the last two years before her death in Byron Bay, Australia, with her husband and children.
Keating’s television career began in Northern Ireland, where she hosted The Video Picture Show, Channel One, and the music show Greenrock, but her big break came when she was chosen to join the Blue Peter team on November 13, 1986.
Keating appeared alongside Peter Duncan, Janet Ellis, Mark Curry, Yvette Fielding, and John Leslie on the show. Her Blue Peter career included a trip to Moscow during the perestroika period in 1987, where she swam with sharks, abseiled down skyscrapers, and stood strapped to the top of a light aircraft performing aerial acrobatics.
In 1988, she interviewed then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the show.