Steph McGovern Quotes

Steph McGovern

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 31, 1982

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.

Steph McGovern

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

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.

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.'

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.

Steph McGovern

I'm proud to be from the North-East.

Steph McGovern

Having once met Trump... Ah he's creepy, man.

Steph McGovern