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Kate Bottley
Kate Bottley (née Stevenson) is an English journalist, presenter, and Church of England vicar.
Kate Stevenson was born in 1975 in Sheffield, England. She was educated at Walkley Primary School, Myers Grove School, where she was head girl and at Tapton School (sixth form), both state schools in Sheffield. She fell in love at a young age with the son of a local vicar and this led to her interest in the Church of England.
Bottley studied secondary religious education with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) from 1993 to 1997 at Leeds Trinity & All Saints and then trained to be a religious education teacher in secondary schools. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as an RE teacher at Ecclesfield Secondary School. From 2000 to 2005 she was head of religious education at Yewlands Technology College in Grenoside in Sheffield.
She trained for ordination by being a vicar's personal assistant at St Mark's Church, Grenoside and then studying at St John's College, Nottingham.
Bottley was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2008 by George Cassidy and as a priest in 2009. She served her curacy at St Andrew's Church, Skegby in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham between 2008 and 2011. From 2011 to 2016, she was chaplain to North Nottinghamshire College, a further education college in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. She also ministered at St Mary and St Martin's Church, Blyth, where she was priest-in-charge from 2011 to 2013 and vicar from 2013 to 2016. From 2016, she was a non-stipendiary associate priest in the Retford Area Team Ministry (now dissolved). On 16 May 2021 she became an Honorary Canon of Southwell Minster. Honorary Canons are local clergy who have given distinguished service to the church, and who are invited to play a part in the life of the Minster as the Cathedral of the diocese.
Bottley has appeared on Channel 4's Gogglebox with her family, as well as Celebrity Mastermind and Celebrity MasterChef.
Channel 4 approached her to appear on Gogglebox following her involvement in a viral video recorded at a wedding in 2013, where she officiated and danced to Kool & the Gang's "Celebration". The video garnered more than 8 million views on YouTube. Bottley appeared on Gogglebox from 2014 to 2016, over five series.[citation needed]
Bottley has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Times Educational Supplement and Radio Times, on topics of religious faith, television and education.
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Kate Bottley
Kate Bottley (née Stevenson) is an English journalist, presenter, and Church of England vicar.
Kate Stevenson was born in 1975 in Sheffield, England. She was educated at Walkley Primary School, Myers Grove School, where she was head girl and at Tapton School (sixth form), both state schools in Sheffield. She fell in love at a young age with the son of a local vicar and this led to her interest in the Church of England.
Bottley studied secondary religious education with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) from 1993 to 1997 at Leeds Trinity & All Saints and then trained to be a religious education teacher in secondary schools. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as an RE teacher at Ecclesfield Secondary School. From 2000 to 2005 she was head of religious education at Yewlands Technology College in Grenoside in Sheffield.
She trained for ordination by being a vicar's personal assistant at St Mark's Church, Grenoside and then studying at St John's College, Nottingham.
Bottley was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2008 by George Cassidy and as a priest in 2009. She served her curacy at St Andrew's Church, Skegby in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham between 2008 and 2011. From 2011 to 2016, she was chaplain to North Nottinghamshire College, a further education college in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. She also ministered at St Mary and St Martin's Church, Blyth, where she was priest-in-charge from 2011 to 2013 and vicar from 2013 to 2016. From 2016, she was a non-stipendiary associate priest in the Retford Area Team Ministry (now dissolved). On 16 May 2021 she became an Honorary Canon of Southwell Minster. Honorary Canons are local clergy who have given distinguished service to the church, and who are invited to play a part in the life of the Minster as the Cathedral of the diocese.
Bottley has appeared on Channel 4's Gogglebox with her family, as well as Celebrity Mastermind and Celebrity MasterChef.
Channel 4 approached her to appear on Gogglebox following her involvement in a viral video recorded at a wedding in 2013, where she officiated and danced to Kool & the Gang's "Celebration". The video garnered more than 8 million views on YouTube. Bottley appeared on Gogglebox from 2014 to 2016, over five series.[citation needed]
Bottley has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Times Educational Supplement and Radio Times, on topics of religious faith, television and education.