Kathryn Thomas, presenter and entrepreneur: ‘There’s a perception because I’m passionate about exercise, and love it, that I never miss a day. But I’m just as passionate about dinners out with my husband or dancing with the girls and hanging out with my kids.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips
Kathryn Thomas’s first job in television wasn’t No Frontiers, or even the late 1990s youth sports programme Rapid, but holding an umbrella over media personality Duncan Stewart while he rehearsed his lines. Back in 1999, the then-20 year old had dropped out of her studies at UCD to get a job – any job – in television. “I had written to a few small production companies in Dublin,” she says, “volunteering...