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BABY JOY FOR TV CATHY; Scottish Passport star falls pregnant to bookie hubby.


TV PRESENTER Cathy MacDonald is pregnant after marrying Perthshire bookie Johnny Crombie 17 months ago following a whirlwind whirlwind, revolving mass of air resulting from local atmospheric instability, such as that caused by intense heating of the ground by the sun on a hot summer day.  romance.

Cathy, 39, who hosts STV's travel show Scottish Passport and presents Gaelic shows for BBC Scotland BBC Scotland (Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London , married Johnny in September 1998 four months after meeting him at a friend's dinner party.

At the time she was getting over a painful divorce from programme maker Dave Turner whom she'd married in 1989 but split up from six years later.

Cathy and Johnny, 42, are due to head off together to a location in Europe in the next few days to film an edition of Scottish Passport.

When the pair first met she was already a familiar TV face, but Johnny had no idea who she was.

Yet a few days later they jetted off for a two-day break together in the south of France South of France south n the South of France → le Sud de la France, le Midi . Cathy later revealed she'd not laughed so much in years. She told friends she instinctively knew Johnny was the man for her.

They decided to get married four months later and organised their wedding at the plush Cromlix House Hotel in Dunblane in just three weeks.

At the ceremony she wore a 14-inch mini kilt kilt

Knee-length, skirtlike garment worn by men as part of the traditional national garb, or Highland dress, of Scotland. It is made of permanently pleated wool and wrapped around the wearer's waist so that the pleats are in the back and the flat ends overlap in front.
, created by her friend, Edinburgh designer Lorraine Weselby.

Cathy said before she met Johnny she'd been driven by work. But after the wedding she declared her marriage was the most important thing in her life.

Cathy has presented a wide variety of TV and radio programmes and even dubbed dub 1  
tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs
1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood.

2. To honor with a new title or description.

3.
 the voice of Lady Penelope for the Gaelic version of Thunderbirds.

She runs her own production company concentrating on Gaelic programmes, hosts the annual coverage of the National MOD and is on the committee of the Celtic Film and Television Festival The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter.
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When asked two weeks after she married if she would like to start a family, Cathy replied: "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 - it's up to Johnny. But if we're blessed, that would be fine."reporters@scottish.mirror.co.uk
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Author:Croce, Maria
Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Feb 18, 2000
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