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Angela DENISE Watson BBC NI Sports presenter and reporter

Denise Watson was born on 30th October 1971 in Belfast and grew up in Lambeg, County Antrim. Her Dad Ian was a respected Rugby player and Coach for Lisburn RFC and mum Sabina worked for the Down Lisburn Trust. She has one sister Julie Hailes. She is married to Dr David Scott and has two daughters Samanatha Eve (7) and Elizabeth Ellen Jennifer Scott (3).

Denise entered a competition in 1991 with longwave radio station "Atlantic 252" to become the female radio voice of the station. She reached the last five in a Nationwide search. From there she moved onto Belfast City Hospital Radio as a volunteer then into Belfast Community Radio (BCR) from 1993. The station is now known as Citybeat 96.7fm.

In June 1995 she was discovered by a Freelance film producer to report on Extreme Sports like Motocross and Kickboxing. The programmes were sold to ESPN/Sky Sports/Hong Kong LIVE. BBC NI asked Denise to audition as a Sports Presenter in August 1996. She has worked for the corporation since then.

Denise is now a Tri-Media journalist. This means she works for TV, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Sport Online. She is currently a reporter for the Irish League "Final Score" show and "The Championship" - BBC NI's Gaelic Football show. The also broke the story of Armagh player Oisin McConville's gambling addiction on Newsline. She was voted CIPR Sports Journalist of the Year 2007/2008.

Denise has fronted several shows for BBC NI. "Choice Sport" a 40 minute magazine show on the digital channel BBC Choice and "Rally! for BBC2 with the Bertie Fisher. She also anchors "Final Score" occasionally.

The changing media world has seen Denise add new skills to her repertoire. She is a competent shoot/editor having trained under the watchful eye of Michael Rosenblum in 2002.