Michael Ball Wife: Who Is Cathy McGowan?

Cathy McGowan is a British broadcaster and journalist, best known as the presenter of the 1960s pop music television show Ready Steady Go!

Cathy McGowan was born in 1943. She has a brother John McGowan who was a disc jockey in 1965 on King Radio.

In 1970, Cathy McGowan married actor Hywel Bennett with whom she had a daughter, Emma. They ended their marriage in 1988.

Michael Ball lives with Cathy McGowan, a former presenter of Ready Steady Go!. The two met in 1989 when she was an entertainment reporter for a BBC London magazine show.

Michael Ball and Cathy McGowan have lived together since 1992. On December 23, 2000, McGowan saved Ball’s life by pulling him out of a house fire.

In 1992, Michael Ball represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “One Step Out of Time,” finishing in second place.

Michael Ball co-hosted the Olivier Awards with Imelda Staunton on March 13, 2011, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.