Storm Keating
Keating in 2016
Born	Sharyn Storm Uechtritz (1981-10-27) 27 October 1981 Childers, Queensland, Australia
Alma mater	University of Queensland University of California, Los Angeles
Occupations	brand ambassador television producer
Spouses	Tim Ivers ​ (m. 2009⁠–⁠2012)​ Ronan Keating ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	2

Sharyn Storm Keating^[1] (née Uechtritz; born 27 October 1981) is an Australian brand ambassador, television producer and television director, now based in London. She has worked on a number of Australian and British television programmes such as The Apprentice Australia, Masterchef Australia, The X Factor, The Voice Australia, and The Voice UK. She is married to singer Ronan Keating.

Early life and education

Sharyn Storm Uechtritz was born in Childers, Queensland, Australia,^[1] the daughter of Gordon Charles Uechtritz, a cattleman, and Debra Lynn (née Hastings), also known as Sharni Ra'harni, a business consultant, healer and Reiki practitioner.^[1][2][3][4] Keating's birth name was Sharyn Storm Uechtritz.^[1][5][6] Her parents loved the name "Storm", used in one of Wilbur Smith's novels, and gave her this first name. ^[1] Concerned she may be made fun of later on in life, they added the name Sharyn.^[7]

Keating grew up in a small village in Papua New Guinea, before her family relocated to a cattle property in Australia in 1988.^[2] Keating has three older brothers.^[1][2]

After school, she attended the University of Queensland (Australia) for three years; she subsequently received an international exchange scholarship to study at University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, for the final year of her degree education.^[2][8]

Career

Storm Keating in 2012

During her time at the University of California Los Angeles, Keating completed an internship at HBO in the Original Programming Department under Chris Albrecht.^[2][9] It was upon her return to Australia that Keating began her career in television production at Channel Nine in Sydney.^[9]

In 2009, she worked on the production of the Australian version of NBC's The Apprentice.^[2][9] From 2010–2012, Keating went on to work with popular formats including The X Factor, Masterchef and The Voice.^[8][9] In 2012, she relocated to London where she became the producer-director of The Voice UK.^[8][9]

Keating collaborated on a range of boots with legendary Italian bootmaker, Stivaleria Cavallin.^[9] Called the 'Storm Boots', these were launched in February 2015 at the Burberry show during London Fashion Week.^[9] In October 2015, Keating was announced as Brand Ambassador for Positive Luxury, a London-based company which globally awards luxury brands with an interactive Trust Mark for meeting sustainability and ethical business criteria.^[9]

Keating had a fashion and lifestyle blog for a while in 2016/2017.^[10]

Personal life

Keating (then known by her maiden name, Uechtritz) married Tim Ivers in August 2009.^[11] They had first met while she was studying at the University of Queensland.^[11] Their marriage ended in April 2012.^[11] She started dating Ronan Keating in August 2011 after she met him on the Australian The X-Factor show.^[11] She subsequently married him on 17 August 2015.^[12] Storm took Keating's name after marriage. They have two children together, a son Cooper Archer Keating, born on 26 April 2017 and a girl, Coco Knox Keating, who was born 27 March 2020.^[1] She is of German, Danish, Samoan and English descent.^[13][14]

Filmography

References

External links

• Storm Keating at IMDb