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Emily Appleton visits mentor Jacquie Beltrao at Sky News for Sunrise show

Jacquie Beltrao shows Emily Appleton
Image: Jacquie Beltrao shows Emily Appleton the ropes on Sky News show Sunrise

Emily Appleton is used to getting up early, but not to help produce a TV show watched by millions.

Part of being a Sky Sports Scholar is learning new skills outside the competing arena and preparing for life after your sporting career.

The 18-year-old rising tennis star linked up with mentor Jacquie Beltrao to help the Sky News presenter on the Sunrise programme.


With a few days left before my next trip away I was really excited to make the most of my time at home so visiting Sky was the perfect way to start!

My mentor Jacquie Beltrao invited me up to see her in action in her Sunrise show. She has the very early hours on the show from 6-10am but I found out she has to get up each morning just after 3am! I don't know how she does that every day.

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With my mum as my 'taxi driver' for the day I felt it was a little mean to drag her out of bed too early so I made my way up to Sky for 8am where I met Jacquie to start our day together.

Jacquie took me down to the studios where she does Sunrise. I was lucky enough to watch Sarah-Jane Mee do her presenting and then it was Jacquie's turn to read the sport headlines on the show.

It really opened my eyes to her line of work. I even got a chance to read the autocue - which I have to say is a lot harder than you might think - especially when most of the footballers' names are very long and difficult to pronounce!

After having a go at the autocue Jacquie did a little interview with me asking me some questions about the GB Fed Cup draw.

The GB girls were scheduled to play in Japan and so it was great to be interviewed and asked for my thoughts on this match-up! Let's go girls!

Throughout my day at Sky, Jacquie introduced me to a number of awesome people and it was nice to meet so many interesting people.

It gave me an amazing insight to how many different jobs there are within Sky which all work together in forming what we see on TV without really considering the amount of effort that goes into the showing of the programmes.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Sky and I can't wait to return the next time I am in the UK to see everyone again.

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