Hazel Irvine's shock secret wedding with mysterious husband and baby at 43

The moderator presents the reporting through the BBC via the World Snooker Championship final between Mark Williams and Zhao Xintong

The 2025 World Snooker Championship is approaching her conclusion. Mark Williams and Zhao Xintong fight in the final in the Crucible Theater.

The opening meeting on Sunday found the race from Zhao to a command lead, with the three -time world champion William's bubble and the session ended with 7: 1. The 28-year-old plays as an amateur after being banished by Snooker for 20 months after he is a match-fixing scandal, but now could become the first Chinese world champion if he can continue his good shape at the table.

The final that will be completed on Monday is shown live on the BBC – with the moderator Hazel Irvine, who did the reporting as she did during the entire tournament.

The 59-year-old is one of the best-known and most respected sports equipment in the business, with her broadcasting career back almost 40 years.

After Irvine at Sport – Golf, Netball and Athletics – was awarded at the university – namely golf, netball and athletics – he began her career on the radio before moving to Scottish television and later becoming sports reporter for the network.

With the reporting on the 1988 Olympic Games from ITV, she drove from the training camp of the Scotland football team in 1990 in Italy before moving to the BBC in the same year and took on the role of the moderator for the sports scene program from BBC Scotland.

Since the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, it has been an integral part of the station with nine summer games, five Winter Olympics, six Commonwealth games and four FIFA World Championships.

Since 2002 she has headed the reporting on the Triple Crown Snooker tournaments – the World Cup, the Masters and the British championship – and also covered Golf for the broadcaster for 25 years and some non -sporting presentation roles.

Despite her remarkable and well -documented career, little is known about Irvine's personal life, with the moderator, born in St. Andrews, manages to keep it out of the spotlight.

When she married in 2008, it was a complete shock for the fans – still unknown with her husband's identity.

It was first reported months after the event that Irvine had associated the knot with her mystery partner in a private ceremony in Scotland with only one close family and friends.

The moderator had triggered marriage rumors when she presented the reporting on the Open in Loch Lomond with a ring, later published her agent an explanation in which the news was confirmed.

“I can confirm that she married her long -term partner a few months ago,” the explanation says. “It was a small and very private matter and she and her husband are very happy. She wants to keep all the details privately.”

In the following year the couple welcomed a daughter together, but again their name was never publicly announced.

Irvine – who was 43 when she was born – had announced the news in a charity quiz in London and informed the audience that she had her “own loan crunch”.

She added: “My clothes already feel the crush. My husband and I have a newcomer in spring – which will be an outflow for my own profits.”

In an interview with Mailonline five years later, she said that the birth of her daughter was what “changed the course of her life and character”, as she explained: “I'm now 48, so it was really fantastic to have her quite late. The biggest gift was rediscovered by her eyes.”