Kay Burley spoke for the first time today since being suspended by Sky News for breaching coronavirus rules, to say she will be on a celebrity edition of The Chase.
The 60-year-old newsreader, who returned to Britain after a holiday in South Africa last weekend, said she would be on the ITV quiz show on Christmas Day tomorrow.
She tweeted a clip from the episode, which saw her asked which was the first of Santa Claus s reindeer to be named in the poem Twas The Night Before Christmas .
Miss Burley had responded with Comet – which was wrong, with the actual answer being Dasher – and told host Bradley Walsh: I didn t know. Bah humbug.
Kay Burley will now have to go into quarantine after returning to the UK from South Africa just days ago.
Today Matt Hancock announced that a second mutated strain of coronavirus even more infectious than the one already wreaking havoc had originated in the country - and ordered anyone who had returned within the last fortnight to self-isolate.
The Sky News presenter, who is currently suspended on full pay for breaking Covid rules for her 60th birthday party, arrived back in the UK this weekend, meaning she will have to keep to herself over Christmas.
Mr Hancock said the discovery was highly concerning and revealed immediate restrictions were being imposed on travel to and from South Africa.
She welcomed her first child with fiancé Ben Richardson on June 24.
And Sarah-Jane Mee was seen stepping out for a stroll with her beau and their daughter Rae Brenda, who they pushed along in her stroller.
The Sky presenter, 42, was the picture of a doting mother as she smiled down at her little one while the trio walked through London on Saturday.
Sarah-Jane swapped Sky News slots with Kay Burley - now ordered off-air for six months by furious bosses after flouting Covid rules for her 60th birthday party - last year.
But she is rumoured to be stepping back into the role when she returns from maternity leave while Kay is suspended on full pay.
Kay Burley is flying back to the UK after jetting off to South Africa following the Covid rule-breaking party that saw her suspended from Sky News on full pay.
The shamed star - ordered off-air for six months by furious bosses after flouting Covid rules for her 60th birthday party - was seen tonight at Johannesburg Airport, this time following the rules by carefully filling out documents to comply with anti-coronavirus measures.
The presenter has spent the last seven days basking at a luxury £1,500 a night lodge on her South African safari, as London slipped into Tier 3 with infection rates rising fast.