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Born | Sharyn Storm Uechtritz 27 October 1981
Childers, Queensland, Australia |
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Sharyn Storm Keating [1] ( née Uechtritz; born 27 October 1981) is an Australian brand ambassador, television producer and television director, now based in London. She has worked on a number of Australian and British television programmes such as The Apprentice Australia, Masterchef Australia, The X Factor, The Voice Australia, and The Voice UK. She is married to singer Ronan Keating.
Sharyn Storm Uechtritz was born in Childers, Queensland, Australia, [1] the daughter of Gordon Charles Uechtritz, a cattleman, and Debra Lynn ( née Hastings), also known as Sharni Ra'harni, a business consultant, healer and Reiki practitioner. [1] [2] [3] [4] Keating's birth name was Sharyn Storm Uechtritz. [1] [5] [6] Her parents loved the name "Storm", used in one of Wilbur Smith's novels, and gave her this first name. [1] Concerned she may be made fun of later on in life, they added the name Sharyn. [7]
Keating grew up in a small village in Papua New Guinea, before her family relocated to a cattle property in Australia in 1988. [2] Keating has three older brothers. [1] [2]
After school, she attended the University of Queensland (Australia) for three years; she subsequently received an international exchange scholarship to study at University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, for the final year of her degree education. [2] [8]
During her time at the University of California Los Angeles, Keating completed an internship at HBO in the Original Programming Department under Chris Albrecht. [2] [9] It was upon her return to Australia that Keating began her career in television production at Channel Nine in Sydney. [9]
In 2009, she worked on the production of the Australian version of NBC's The Apprentice. [2] [9] From 2010–2012, Keating went on to work with popular formats including The X Factor, Masterchef and The Voice. [8] [9] In 2012, she relocated to London where she became the producer-director of The Voice UK. [8] [9]
Keating collaborated on a range of boots with legendary Italian bootmaker, Stivaleria Cavallin. [9] Called the 'Storm Boots', these were launched in February 2015 at the Burberry show during London Fashion Week. [9] In October 2015, Keating was announced as Brand Ambassador for Positive Luxury, a London-based company which globally awards luxury brands with an interactive Trust Mark for meeting sustainability and ethical business criteria. [9]
Keating had a fashion and lifestyle blog for a while in 2016/2017. [10]
Keating (then known by her maiden name, Uechtritz) married Tim Ivers in August 2009. [11] They had first met while she was studying at the University of Queensland. [11] Their marriage ended in April 2012. [11] She started dating Ronan Keating in August 2011 after she met him on the Australian The X-Factor show. [11] She subsequently married him on 17 August 2015. [12] Storm took Keating's name after marriage. They have two children together, a son Cooper Archer Keating, born on 26 April 2017 and a girl, Coco Knox Keating, who was born 27 March 2020. [1] She is of German, Danish, Samoan and English descent. [13] [14]
Year | Title | Role |
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2009 | The Apprentice Australia | Associate producer |
2010 | So You Think You Can Dance Australia | Producer |
2010 | The X Factor | Producer |
2011 | MasterChef Australia | Producer |
2011 | Junior MasterChef Australia | Producer |
2012 | The Voice AU | Producer |
2013 | The Voice UK | Producer director |
2021 | Loose Women | Panelist |