"I have today agreed with Sky News to step back from my broadcasting role for a period of reflection," Burley wrote.
"It doesn't matter that I thought I was Covid-compliant on a recent social event. The fact is I was wrong, I made a big mistake, and I am sorry. "I was one of the founding presenters on Sky News. No one is prouder of our channel's reputation, the professionals on our team, and the impact we make.image copyrightThe channel said it had completed an "internal review into the conduct of a small number of team members who attended a social event" on Saturday.
"Following our review of what took place on 5th December, we have agreed with Beth Rigby and Inzamam Rashid that they will not be on air for three months, and we have agreed with Kay Burley that she will not be on air for six months."Burley, who joined Sky News in 1988 and has hosted the breakfast show since October 2019,, saying she had been "at a Covid-compliant restaurant" but "inadvertently broke the rules" by popping to the toilet in the second restaurant.
Should be sacked she would have been screaming for it if it was another tv reporter
One law for the etc ffs
It's hardly the crime of the century we are only human and the longer this goes on the more people are missing friends and family. We are after all social creatures.
My dad is really happy, he says she's annoying, time to find someone younger, also she's looking a bit rough.
I like Kay she always asks the right questions we want to hear.. she should’ve waited to celebrate her birthday. Bet Nr 10 is happy she’s off the air... they can breathe easily with puppy-dog journalists asking them questions 🤣 from now on 🤣🤣🤣
Is that a bit unreasonable?
Good ‼️intelligent woman with little common sense and respect for others !
Is she getting paid leave?
Bit harsh ! So many people breaking the rules
Yippee no great loss.
BBCPolitics Thank god we won't have to her spouting on about, 'my viewers' 'my tv show' etc etc.
No sympathy, she must have known she was doing wrong, now she gets full pay for 6 months off, some punishment!!!
Fantastic.
...and she is on full pay.... more like a holiday
Yet Dominic Cummings walked away scott free...absolute disgrace, we all make mistakes but this is PC culture gone mad
Clearly she thought that as a *V.I.P.* she’s special & different,rules & laws don’t apply to her or her circle of friends & colleagues,she’s probably the sort of V.I.P. that’s not used to waiting in a queue at a supermarket or waiting in line at a restaurant for a table
Good
how happy we are for skynews
In full pay?
Thank you God! The only presenter on sky news that I really couldn't stand. Glad she's gone... If only it could be permanent.
Who ?
What bad English! Soo many other famous people have also ignored Covid rules soo why haven’t they been fined.
The BBC News gloats whilst continuing to kiss Johnson’s arse and spreads his lies. Johnson has been breaking Covid regulations from the off — Patel should take action. cycleclips
The BBC gloats while continuing to kiss Johnson’s arse and propagates his lies. Johnson has been breaking Covid regulations from the off, Priti Patel ought to take action.
So is she going to prison for life? Can her lawyers make the case that she was headed to Specsavers?
Serves her right
In these troubling times there is some good news for the Sky News audience.
Shame she didn’t work for BorisJohnson then she’d have been applauded COVID19
Sky news put her on a pedistall , and she believes it.
Certainly an overbearing response from Sky but an early Christmas present for all as shockingly poor at their jobs.
BBC will no doubt give her a job.
Naughty step it is then
Sack her like a male counterpart would be treated - she got soft treatment because of her sex
Counting her wealth no doubt then walks back into a very well paid job some justice
Six months off on full pay! Devastating for her 🙄
On full pay and benefits and will get a new show as a comeback prize! Sounds like a disciplinary?
Quite honestly she'd started to get a bit arrogant, so this snap back to reality was due. Shes not above the law, only a news reader. The higher you climb, the further and harder you fall.
Sad we are losing 2 strong female journalists who will hold politicians to account and call out their lies. The patriarchy wins again.
In the hope the people forgive and forget! Never! Self important bastard!
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Overpaid autocue reader gets caught doing opposite of what the autocue said. Very sad. 😆
Why? She should pay the penalty for breaching the rules, and that should be the end of it. Politicians and footballers breached the rules, and they don't appear to have been 'off air' for six months. Is this virtue signalling by Sky?
Just sack her I've worked front line community nurse throughout all this .... ill have her wage totaldisgrace
Why ?
Bottom line is, she can’t hold others to account when she’s bending the rules to meet her lifestyle.
Six months! Geez!
Suspended on FULL PAY! What does that say? If they didn’t know they were breaking the rules they should be sacked. Will the cameras be camped outside their house & their parents with relentless spiteful witch-hunts on them like they did to others?
Won’t be watching Sky News until Kay back . I don’t know anyone personally that has kept to the rules but all do evaluate their own assessment not to put others at risk . Give Kay a break
Garden leave for six months then gone
Disgraceful victimisation of a woman Wouldn't happen if she was a man
Thought she said she was off to Africa on a planned holiday ?
Kay Burley is one of THE best interviewers and journalists in the UK Media - give her a break, give her a rest, and let her do her journalism, to all o u benefits, later in 2021. Go Kay! Go Beth!
Only 6 months?
I like how Sky has reported that they have all agreed to come off air. That's like saying they all agreed to the head giving them the cane - like you've got a choice! They've now lost credibility so it doesn't matter how long they're off air, no one will take them seriously now!
Viewing figures may increase
Best news this year!! KayBurley no longer on the screen is a sight for sore eyes and ears up and down the nation!! KayBurley
Ridiculous
Lost all credibility. She and the rest of them think they are above the law . HYPROCRITES. Ohhhh...Karma !! Can't stand her . She's so up her own arse SackThemAll
On full pay. Piss take. Sabbatical then SkyNews
Not being funny here but when the chief medical officer did that in scotland she lost her job - 6 months holiday in Africa doesnt sound like a very appropriate punishment to me. They all knew what they were doing. Sky News needs to set an example.
I thought she was brilliant
Play high stakes poker then be ready to lose the big bets - she gave it out and its come back to slap her in the face
What she did was much worse than Dominic Cummings!
60 and still worth one. Great pair of pins
Ridiculous.
Should be off air permanently nothing but poison
Not long enough, try the word forever.
Wow, I absolutely love this! Only a few months ago we had to sit there listening night after night to BethRigby call for Cummings to resign or be sacked! Well perhaps she should resign!! Perhaps you need an eye test too.. could you not read the rules
I can see the sadness in her eyes
Huntyroyal And Dominic Cummings got away with nothing.
Unlike your so-called journalists, KayBurley and BethRigby would have held Brexshitters to account by asking them awkward questions as the good ship Take Back Control hit the iceberg of self harm, while you'd just invite Nigel Fascist round for tea and scones. convenient
After calling others to resign she is taking a 6 months hols on full pay - wow. Stinks.
SkyNews SkyNewsBreak SkyNewsPolitics The hypocrites KayBurley & BethRigby should be off for good. The crap that chucked at others for breaking the rules. They are SHAMEFUL!
Thanks to people who think their birthdays are too important for Covid, we're now facing TIER 3!!!
BBCPolitics Will she still get paid, if so it's not punishment
Sadness in her eyes
6months in full pay...hardly a punishment.
Excellent news , about time she was brought down a peg or 2 , awefull interviewer, truly awefull
6 months for KayBurley and no punishment for the serial lockdown breaker jackgrealish?
Covid has its upside after all
It was no mistake. She knew what she was doing. If she worked for the BBC she would be gone. After all she is 60 and ought to know better.
She will still get paid so no issue for her. This just proves to you that you must keep your side clean if you going to point fingers at someone else, otherwise it can come back to bite you, especially as a news reporter.
Truly sorry........ to have been caught out. As do so many. Do as I say and not as I do.
Hopefully if/when she comes back they will give her a 3am to 6am slot and persuade skysarahjane to return to the breakfast slot.
She’s a truly vile woman, I sincerely hope she’s gone for good
On full pay?
If she worked any other place she would still have her job. I think it should go to a tribunal. I’m not for Covid spreaders but it’s becoming like a police state!
*be
Sack her
Will off air Nice English.
Good! Disgusting how they can preach to us but can’t seem to follow rules themselves
Well done SkyNews. Finally a reasonable, significant but measured response to someone who showed a selfish disregard of others peoples lives. Nice to hear KayBurley apologise and seem to actually mean it. WeCanDoBetter InThisTogether COVID19
This covid business has really brought the best out of us in the UK, hasn’t it.
disappointed
KayBurley “I’m sorry if we’ve upset you!” WE it was her! That awful, spiteful interview with MrPeterAndre years ago? After all these years, hear her voice it’s what I think of. It’s just rude to go into a restaurant just for to pee... KayBurley
All because the poor cow needed a piss? Imagine the outrage if she’d squatted in the street?
I don’t see why this has anything to do with her employer, was she there in their behalf, endorsing the corporation, wearing ID?..... this is her personal life, and to be fair, there’s that many rules, there’s no one folk are confused, she believed she was right in her choice
Not long enough. How can a newscaster be credible when they don't believe the very news they themselves report?
Beth rugby was one of the main critics of cu.mings and rightly so Sky should sack them all
Slightly crazy over-reaction?
I’ve got a few ideas how she could spend the next 6 months but sadly am married so there’s that impediment
LPerrins So harsh and over the top 😳☹️
LPerrins All they do is lie. Constantly.
The tier system works 😀
Proof read
I'm a right wing brexiteer so obviously she ain't my cup of tea to say the very least but i don't wish her any hardship to the women.
Damn!!! That’s harsh.
Kay Burley: step back on no pay for 6 months or step back on full pay. Kinda makes a difference to the punishment, don’t you think ?
Absolutely fantastic news
Great result for KayBurley . 6 months paid holiday.
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Should be sacked. She along with Beth rigby , Laura kuensburg and Robert peston were at the forefront of media calling for Dominic Cummings to be sacked for same
Highly irresponsible behaviour. She should be sacked full stop. Horrible woman.
She can never be a credible journalist again
Let’s face it, reading the news is as boring as it gets, especially on a station which is 24/7 the same thing over and over again. I’m sure she won’t be fussed either way. Whoever decided to do a 24 hour news station is off his/her rocker. Here’s Kay on her six months off ......
She should’ve changed her name to Dominic Cummings, prior.
Ludicrous, she had a birthday party with a few mates. Joke. Absolute joke.
Sack her.
Good News indeed, can watch Sky again now without throwing a brick at the TV. Don’t rush back
Beth Rigby, “ we was only goin fer a Gypsies Gov”
Seems a bit harsh?
As usual,one rule for them and a different set of rules for others.
Christmas has come early. I wonder if SkyNews will include her when they slag off Cummings.
Don't think she'll be back. Six months is long time in the world of broadcasting.
A good news story at last.
Completely hypercritical from Sky. Jokers 🃏
When they heard about her night out, wouldn't be surprised if some government ministers were on the phone to Sky, demanding such a period off air.
too faces
HAAAAAAAAAAAgood
I think people deserve to know if that’s paid leave or not... I can’t stand the woman and Beth Rigby is even worse, however, for a bit of food and a few drinks on your 60th birthday the vitriol and hate is a bit harsh in my opinion.
Good job sky doesn't oversee the government...
She should be sacked!
Should of made them work on Christmas Eve, Day and New Year as well that would have been a better punishment!
She'll off air, will she? 🙄
Karma
Full pay too.....
Ha ha ha ha ha....Great news
Goodbye to bad rubbish
Too bloody right!!!!
Good! She is a hypocrite KayBurley
Should have got rid of her and Rigby
Meanwhile the Royal family are swanning around the UK with no repercussions. 🤷
I do find it very entertaining when moral faux moral crusaders get caught out.
What is covid breach?
Is that all?
One part of me thinks this is excessive, people still need to live their lives. On the other hand, she has been part of the covid shaming brigade, telling other people off for “breaching covid rules.” So she’s had a taste of her own medicine.
Is it just me or is there anyone else who finds Burley and Rigby useless at what they do? They’re so false
Angry Gammons shouting for her to be sacked!! While they defended cumming who drove around with covid, when the nation was in lockdown! Atleast kay been suspended and is paying for her action! Did cumming get suspended for his trip to Barnard Did he get sacked ?Why should she!
Oh , Kate, your bosses told you to ignore Assange now you are free to speak, if you dare
'....will off air.....' Is that some kind of bodily function?
Don’t throw stones in Glass Houses SkyNews
Come Christmas this exact sort of behaviour will be repeated all over the country. Happy New Year!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD she won’t be missed
Angry Gammons shouting for her to be sacked!! While they defended cumming who drove around with covid, when the nation was in lockdown! Atleast kay been suspended and is paying for her action! Did cumming get suspended for his trip to Barnard Did he get sacked ?Why should she!
If she gets the push she could always work at the BBC. Oh. Too White, too female, too old.
She has agreed with Sky to step back. Arrogant b***h. I hope being out of work takes its toll on your ego.
Good action by sky. Sincerely hope she is fined. Part of me thinks we should have sliding scale of fines like income tax. More you earn more you are fined.
All public figures who spout and condemn flouters should set example not flout the rules until found out. She said sorry, don't they all, well most have. What happened to Ferrier, nothing so nothing here either. She shot off the see lions,South Africa I think. Travel🤔😷💉bonkers
SkyNews - what a complete joke, these people called for others to be sacked to lose there income, but you give them leave? and for them to keep there job. SkyNews you are spineless.
Finally 2020 has given us some good news
KayBot won’t be missed, that’s for sure.
Good
Should be sacked.
is that all
Bet the mps are happy.
Will the same apply to your presenter tier jumping and signing books in supermarkets during lockdown.
Is that crawling on hands and knees to the tyranny of Boris?
Sack the lot
Hahaha....Good!.
She’s had it well easy for 30 years. It’s an unfortunate misdemeanour but you can’t preach to the public and break the rules yersen
Will off air?!
Be
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serves them right
BBCPolitics All Kay Burley as to do is say 'I only went to the other bathroom to check my eyesight' then she's home free.
How many politicians did Burley quiz about what the rules are? Perhaps she needs hearing aids. SkyNews
Awww didums
I read 'will be off air' too!
Mouth like an anus
Oh the irony another self promoter caught out by their arrogance
If only our government ministers showed some remorse and took responsibility for their covid breaches we might not be in this mess KayBurley COVID19 ThursdayThoughts
BBCPolitics presenter gets to stay at home on full pay for 6 months after breaking rules, she's probably already on the wine
She is very lucky to be allowed back. I trust she is *not* receiving ANY pay?
I bet she's upset been off the air for 6 months on full pay, shame bbclaurak wasn't with her and that horrible BethRigby so we could all the dross off the TV at the same time, but come on skynews it should be on no pay, practice what you preach ffs
She should of been sacked or at least demoted .
Too fucking funny! Covid breach has to be the biggest crock off shit I've read in my entire life.