Spot the difference as Rosie interviews mum
THOSE high cheekbones, smiley eyes and that easy manner in front of the camera were all so readily identifiable with the queen of breakfast television.
But for once the lens was not focused on Lorraine Kelly but on the Scots TV star’s lookalike daughter, Rosie Smith, who seemed more than happy to steal the limelight from her mother.
Miss Smith, who is a fourth-year journalism student at Edinburgh’s Napier University, was among the current crop of undergraduates to welcome the broadcaster to their new industry-standard broadcasting facilities.
At one point, Miss Kelly’s 21-yearold daughter took over the role of interviewer, thrusting a microphone towards her mother, much to her amusement.
For Miss Kelly, it was a trip down memory lane at the university, then known as Napier College, where she honed her own reporting skills almost 40 years ago, before working her way from local newspaper reporter to popular national broadcaster.
After officially opening the new facilities, which include a cuttingedge digital newsroom, Miss Kelly said: ‘I’ve been looking forward to seeing all the new facilities and meeting the students.
‘Things have changed dramati- cally since I was here in the late Seventies, when we still used oldfashioned typewriters and there was no mobile phones or internet.
‘The students at the university are lucky to have such cuttingedge digital technology.’
A digital newsroom has been created at Napier’s Merchiston campus, with the university now aiming to raise a further £250,000 to kit out the TV studio and gallery.
Dr Diane Maclean, the university’s head of journalism, said: ‘It’s a fast-changing world and we need to keep up, which is why we are all delighted with our new converged newsroom.’