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British journalist and television presenter

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Born	Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah () 25 February (age&#;49) Streatham, London, England
Education	Graveney School
Alma&#;mater	University of Leeds
Occupations	Television presenter journalist
Notable credit(s)
Spouse	James Haggar &#; (m.&#;)&#;

Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah^[1] (born 25 February ),^[2] known professionally as Naga Munchetty, is an English television presenter, newsreader and journalist.

She is a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast. She is also a former presenter of BBC World News and BBC Two's weekday financial affairs programme Working Lunch.

Early life and career

Munchetty was born and grew up in Streatham, South London.^[3] Her mother, Muthu,^[4] is from Tamil Nadu, India and her father is from Mauritius.

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They met when both were studying in Wales, her mother training to be a dentist and her father to be a nurse. They married in London in , without the knowledge or approval of their parents.^[5][6] She has one sister, born in ^[7] Her early education was at Graveney School in Tooting.^[8] She studied English Literature and Language at the University of Leeds, graduating in ^[9] Her first job was as a journalist on the City Pages of the London Evening Standard.^[10] She also worked on the Business Section of The Observer.^[10]

Career

Munchetty's television career began as a reporter for Reuters Financial Television, after which she worked as a senior producer for CNBC Europe, a business producer and reporter for Channel 4 News and a presenter on Bloomberg Television.^[10]

Munchetty joined Working Lunch after the show was revamped in October and stayed with the programme until it was cancelled in July ^[11] Munchetty has hosted Radio 4'sMoney Box.^[12] She also reports from the City for BBC News, gauging the reaction to breaking financial stories such as the Budget,^[13] and the Pre-Budget Report.^[14]

Since August , Munchetty has presented early morning bulletins on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.

She is a regular presenter on BBC One's Breakfast.^[15] From January , Munchetty became the presenter on the 10am to 1pm Radio 5 programme on Mondays to Wednesdays replacing Emma Barnett, who moved to Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Munchetty co-hosted The Spending Review – The South Today Debate on BBC One with Sally Taylor in September ^[16]

Munchetty also presented Paranormal Investigation: Live on Living on 30–31 October to celebrate Halloween.^[17] Munchetty narrated the BBC documentary Fear and Faith in Paris looking at anti-Semitic attacks in Paris and their impact on the Jewish community of France.

She won Celebrity Mastermind, which was broadcast on 2 January In June , she replaced Sian Williams as presenter of Sunday Morning Live on BBC One. In , she was replaced by Emma Barnett and Sean Fletcher. On 26 August , Munchetty presented an episode of Newsnight on BBC Two.

She was a contestant on the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, having been paired with Pasha Kovalev,^[18] and being voted out in week four (16 October ).

She co-presented Britain's Classroom Heroes with Sean Fletcher in October

In , Munchetty joined the cast of CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed playing a fictionalised version of herself as a Media Studies teacher who acts like a newsreader.

On Boxing Day , Munchetty appeared on the BBC quiz show The Weakest Link.^[19][20] On 2 June , and again on 8 December , Munchetty was the host for BBC's Have I Got News for You.^[21]

David Attenborough interview

A July Breakfast interview Munchetty did with David Attenborough went viral for its perceived awkwardness after Munchetty asked Attenborough, who had been invited to talk about the Big Butterfly Count event, unrelated questions about the royal family and the RRS Sir David Attenborough.

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Attenborough, visibly unimpressed, shut down nearly all of Munchetty's questions.^[22][23]

In September , Munchetty was ruled to have breached the BBC's guidelines by criticising US President Donald Trump for perceived racism. That July, while presenting BBC Breakfast with Dan Walker, Munchetty took issue with Trump's comments telling his opponents to "go back" to the "places from which they came".

Munchetty said: "Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism. Now I'm not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean."^[24]

The BBC was criticised for its decision to uphold complaints over Munchetty's comments. Several public figures, including Lenny Henry and Adrian Lester, signed an open letter asking the corporation to reconsider its ruling against her.^[25]

On 30 September , it was reported in The Guardian that the complaint was also made against her co-host Dan Walker but his comments were not the focus of the BBC's executive complaints unit (ECU) investigation.^[26] Later that day, the Director-General of the BBC Tony Hall overturned the decision after looking into it personally.^[27]

Personal life

Naga married ITV broadcast consultant James Haggar in ^[28][29] She lives in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.^[3][30]

Munchetty plays jazz trumpet and classical piano.^[10] She plays golf, with a handicap of nine in ^[31] In October , she won the Hertfordshire de Paula Cup at Bishop's Stortford Golf Club.^[32] She is now a committee member of Moor Park Golf Club, where she presents the annual Charity Golf Day in June.^[33][34][35]

She is also a trustee of local theatre, Watersmeet, and a governor at St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth.^[36][37]

Munchetty was diagnosed with adenomyosis in September and revealed her diagnosis during her BBC Radio 5 Live programme in May ^[38]

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