Personal Life
While working for the BBC in Belfast, she met cameraman and later BBC current affairs producer Don Keating (1936–1997). The couple married in 1970 and had a daughter and two sons; the couple separated in 1985 and divorced in 1992. He died of heart disease aged 61.
She moved to Sevenoaks, Kent, where she still lives, and where her daughter Caron Keating (1962–2004) died of breast cancer. This led to her setting up a cancer charity in her daughter's name. Hunniford claims that a white feather fell at her feet during the funeral of her daughter, when there was no evidence of where it came from in the surroundings. She claims to often find white feathers in unusual places such as studios etc. which she believes are a message card from her daughter, informing her that she is in a good place.
Hunniford married celebrity hairdresser Stephen Way in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in September 1998.
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