Konnie Huq on motherhood and 'stepping back' from TV presenting
When she was a presenter on Blue Peter, Konnie Huq noticed a recurring theme.
The presenter's own passion for such subjects is one of the reasons she has written a children's book with a central character who embraces learning. Cookie Haque loves long words and her favourite subject is science. "I did this show for Sky called King of the Nerds, which was a reality show looking for the world's biggest nerd, essentially, celebrating the geek, which is also what I'm about.
Although she's done bits and pieces since then, like guest presenting The One Show, Huq hasn't taken on a major TV gig since King of The Nerds, which aired in 2015."It's not going away, there's loads of time left," she points out."I'm lucky in that the media is much more freelancey. So I didn't have that pressure that lots of people have if you jump off the ladder, then you get left behind. And also I do think you can get too ambitious with it.
"Children's has always been my bag really," she says."Ever since coming out of university, I've worked in children's television, we had the Blue Peter Book Awards, I've done a lot of initiatives with children from deprived backgrounds and a lot of STEM learning initiatives, and so [writing a book] is sort of taking all that and putting it together.
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