Keltie Knight

Keltie Colleen Knight (née Busch; born January 28, 1982) is a Canadian TV presenter and former professional dancer. She is currently the weekend co-host and correspondent for the syndicated show The Insider.

Knight danced professionally for both the New Jersey Nets and also the New York Knicks. She also featured in numerous music videos as a dancer before becoming a TV presenter. Since becoming a correspondent in 2012 for The Insider, she has featured regularly in the press as a fashion icon and also worked for PETA, against the wearing of fur.

Early life

Knight was born in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada on January 28, 1982. At an early age she took up dance lessons in a variety of different dance fields and competed throughout Canada in dance competitions. At the age of 8, she undertook her first worldwide competition.^[1]

Her dancing career started before she finished high school, which eventually led Knight to the United States, where she accepted her first professional dancing job.^[1]

Personal life

In 2013, Keltie married music manager and A&R executive Chris Knight. Knight is close friends with singer Christina Perri.

Career

Knight started her dancing career in the United States as a specialist dancer and featured on music videos and as part of a number of professional dance teams. In 2003, Knight became a professional cheerleader for the NBA team the New Jersey Nets for a period of two years. She remained as a cheerleader in the NBA and also was a cheerleader for the New York Knicks dancing with them until 2007.^[1] During this period, she also appeared on Saturday Night Live as a dancer in 2006.^[2] From 2004, she also danced for the Radio City Rockettes for 6 seasons.^[3]

Her music video dancing led her to perform with John Legend, Gym Class Heroes and Fergie from 2007 onwards. In 2009, she featured on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine.^[1] She danced for a number of music artists from 2007 onwards, including Taylor Swift. Knight was interviewed on a VMA after show in 2010 discussing Swifts recovery, following Kanye West's controversial appearance on stage with Swift while she was receiving her award at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.^[4] Prior to this, she spent 6 seasons as a Radio City Rockette and also discussed dancing for the likes of Beyoncé.^[5]

Her dancing also led her to perform on the big screen in both Enchanted in 2007 and Footloose in 2011.^[2]

In 2010, Knight began to become more focused on presenting. She became the host a Live Nation online music series, where she regularly interviewed musicians and attended music festivals across the US as a TV presenter.^[6] After working with Live Nation, Knight began working with Alloy TV and presenting the show Living The Dream. The show focused on individuals and their jobs, primarily those who had unique types of employment some of which could describe as a dream job.^[7] Knight was featured on the fifteenth season of The Bachelor as a contestant dating Brad Womack on his second stint at finding love. She was credited as Keltie Colleen during that time and discussed her time as a Rockette on that season. Fun fact: She apparently grew up with Kaitlyn Bristowe of The Bachelorette fame in Alberta, Canada.

Following her roles as a Television presenter, Knight became an on-air correspondent in 2012 for the syndicated show, The Insider. As a correspondent she covered numerous red carpet events. In 2013, she covered the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards^[8] and the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014 for Insider.^[9] Other events she has covered have included The Vanity Fair Oscar Party,^[10] The Independent Spirit Awards,^[11] The People's Choice Awards,^[12] and The American Music Awards^[13]

After a number of years as a correspondent, Knight became a weekend co-host for The Insider show. At the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2014, Knight interviewed Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and also Bradley Cooper.^[14] In early 2014, Knight interviewed Jennifer Lawrence regarding her appearance in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.^[15] In early 2014, she also interviewed Miley Cyrus regarding her Bangerz Tour.^[16] After the release of Adam Levine's fragrance, Knight interviewed Levine on The Insider (TV series).^[17] In 2015 she had a cameo role in the movie "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" where she played a Times reporter. Keltie hosted the 2015 "Thanksgiving Day Parade Live On CBS" with Entertainment Tonight co-host Kevin Frazier^[18] Keltie was a preliminary judge at the 2016 Miss USA Pageant. ^[19]

Fashion

As a presenter, Knight's outfits have regularly featured Internationally in leading publications. Following her appearance at The Grammy Awards in 2014, she featured in the Netherlands edition of Vogue.^[20] Her popularlity in the Netherlands continued, when she featured in Elle magazine for the dress she wore at the People's Choice Awards in 2014.^[21]

She has also featured in the Spanish edition of Glamour in 2014,^[22] along with BELLO,^[23] People magazine,^[24] Vogue Italia,^[25] Marie Claire^[26] and New York Magazine.^[27]

In 2014, she featured in a PETA advertisement against the wearing of fur clothing.^[28]She also presented the "Red Carpet Challenge" on Season 14, Episode 12 of Project Runway.

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