Dispatches: Will My Summer Holiday Be Cancelled?
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Friday, June 5 on Channel 4 (4)
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Will My Summer Holiday Be Cancelled?
Kate Quilton investigates the uncertainty over summer holidays, ever since the Iran War sent jet fuel prices soaring and caused thousands of flights to be cancelled. She finds out whether foreign holidays are now out of the question or if the opposite is true, with bargains to be had. She also explores whether holidaying in the UK could be a smarter alternative.
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Kate Quilton
(Reporter)
Best Known For:
Presenting Food Unwrapped.
Early-life:
Katie Marie Quilton was born in November 1983 in the United Kingdom and grew up on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds. She studied at the University of Bristol, where she did a student version of the documentary film Super Size Me (2004), where she ate kebabs for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week.
Career:
While she was a student, Quilton worked for both ITV and the BBC before going on to work as a broadcast journalist in Somerset for the BBC. She spent a lot of time with farmers here and reported mostly on food. Quilton was a commissioning editor for Channel 4 between 2010 and 2014. She stepped down from the role in 2014 so that she could focus full-time on the TV series Food Unwrapped, which she has presented since 2012. Other TV programmes she has worked on include Superfoods: The Real Story, The Shopper's Guide to Saving Money and Tricks of the Restaurant Trade.
Quote:
'Superfoods are everywhere!'
Trivia:
She ran the London Marathon for Papworth Hospital in 2016.
Nick London
(Producer)
Tom Porter
(Executive producer)
