Olivia Utley GB News: Age, Career & Bio (2026)
She built a career at the newspapers and broadcasters GB News defines itself against, then joined GB News.
Olivia Utley is the political correspondent for GB News and presents Saturday Morning Live between 10am and midday. Before television she was a leader writer at The Sun and a commissioning editor at The Telegraph, and she appeared as a commentator and paper reviewer on Sky and the BBC, including BBC Question Time and Radio 4’s Any Questions.
That last detail is the interesting one, and no profile of her makes anything of it. GB News sells itself as the alternative to established British broadcasting. Utley arrived having already been booked by the establishment, repeatedly, on its flagship debate programmes.
Olivia Utley: quick facts
| Role | Political correspondent, GB News |
| Also presents | Saturday Morning Live, 10am to 12pm |
| Joined GB News | 2022, as a political reporter |
| Previously | Commissioning editor, The Telegraph |
| Previously | Leader writer and occasional columnist, The Sun |
| Previously | News and features editor, Reaction |
| Also written for | TheArticle |
| Earlier | House of Commons |
| Broadcast before GB News | Commentator and paper reviewer for Sky and BBC, including Question Time and Any Questions |
| Education | English Literature, University of York, 2012 to 2015, per her LinkedIn |
| Based in | London |
| X (Twitter) | @OliviaUtley, 33,500 followers, joined August 2017 |
| Age, date of birth | Not confirmed by any reliable source |
| Partner | Not something she discusses publicly |
| Net worth | No verified figure exists |
| Wikipedia page | None |
What does Olivia Utley do at GB News?
She is the channel’s political correspondent, covering Westminster, and she presents Saturday Morning Live from 10am to midday. Her own X profile lists both roles. She joined in 2022 as a political reporter and moved up to correspondent, then added presenting on top.
The reporting job and the presenting job are different disciplines, and doing both is not standard. A correspondent stands outside a building and explains what just happened inside it. A presenter runs two hours of live television and keeps guests to time. Utley does both in the same week.
Why did Olivia Utley join GB News?
She has answered this directly, and her answer is worth quoting properly rather than paraphrasing into mush.
She said she had been excited about the channel before she joined, and that she had felt for a long time there was a gap in the market for a news channel covering issues the more mainstream television channels had routinely ignored.
On the GB News site she puts it in a longer frame. She writes that she was lucky to learn the trade at two newspapers, but that broadcast journalism was always the real ambition, and that the television news industry had been largely stagnant since Sky News launched.
Here is what makes that argument unusual coming from her. Most people who say British broadcasting is stagnant are on the outside of it. Utley was inside: booked on Question Time, booked on Any Questions, reviewing papers for Sky and the BBC. She was making the criticism from a chair she had already been given.
Olivia Utley’s career before television
She did not come to journalism through television, and the print record is long for someone at this stage.
Her earliest listed work is at the House of Commons, which puts her inside Westminster before she was writing about it. She then moved into journalism proper.
At Reaction, the commentary and analysis start-up edited and published by the political commentator Iain Martin, she was news and features editor. She also wrote for TheArticle. Her pieces from that period show the register she still works in: one argued that it was fortunate so few Britons watch the Parliament Channel, because if the public saw what actually happened in the Chamber there would be trouble. She wrote on the collapse of Jared O’Mara’s parliamentary career after he resigned the Labour whip.
From there she went to two national newspapers. She was a leader writer and occasional columnist at The Sun, which means writing the paper’s own institutional voice rather than her own. She was then a commissioning editor at The Telegraph, where the job is choosing which arguments get published and by whom.
Leader writing and commissioning are both invisible jobs. Neither carries a byline most of the time, and neither builds a public profile. That is probably why the print half of her career gets one line in most profiles despite being the longer half.
How old is Olivia Utley?
No reliable source publishes her date of birth, and she has not stated it.
There is one anchor worth naming, and it is her education. Her LinkedIn lists an English Literature degree at the University of York running from 2012 to 2015. A standard three-year British undergraduate degree starting in 2012 usually means someone who finished school around that year, but this is a pattern rather than a fact, and people take degrees at every age.
Several profile sites publish a specific date of birth. None of them cites anything. Where a page gives an exact day and month for someone who has never mentioned it publicly, the safe assumption is that the figure was invented or copied from another invented figure.
Is Olivia Utley related to Tom Utley?
This one comes up in searches and deserves a straight answer: it is claimed, and it is not confirmed.
Several profile sites state that the Daily Mail columnist Tom Utley is her uncle and that the conservative journalist T. E. Utley was her great-uncle. Both men are real and both are established names in British journalism. But the pages making the claim cite no source for it, and no established outlet has reported the connection.
Surnames are exactly the point at which these sites go wrong. Family details on aggregator biographies are routinely transplanted between people who share a name. Until someone in the family says so on the record, treat it as unverified.
Olivia Utley’s family and private life
She keeps it largely off the record, and what is public she has said herself, on air or on her own accounts.
She went on maternity leave in December and returned to the political job at GB News in September 2025. Talking to Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce about coming back, she said becoming a mother had changed how she sees things, particularly crime, given the part of London where she lives. She also joked that she had been so out of the loop she barely knew who the prime minister was until the local elections pulled her back in.
In July 2026 she posted publicly that she is expecting a second child in November.
Beyond that there is nothing on the record about a partner, and she does not discuss it. Pages that name one are guessing.
Olivia Utley’s net worth
No verified figure exists, and no method for producing one exists either.
She is a salaried correspondent at a television channel that does not publish individual pay, with earlier salaried roles at newspapers that also do not. There is no filing, no disclosure and no public contract. Every number you will find attached to her name online was made up by someone filling a template.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Olivia Utley?
The political correspondent for GB News. She covers Westminster and presents Saturday Morning Live between 10am and midday.
What did Olivia Utley do before GB News?
She worked at the House of Commons, then as news and features editor at Reaction, then as a leader writer and occasional columnist at The Sun and a commissioning editor at The Telegraph. She also appeared as a commentator and paper reviewer on Sky and the BBC, including Question Time and Any Questions.
How old is Olivia Utley?
Her date of birth is not published by any reliable source and she has not stated it. Her LinkedIn lists a degree at the University of York from 2012 to 2015, which is the only public anchor. Profile sites giving an exact date do not cite a source.
Where did Olivia Utley go to university?
The University of York, where her LinkedIn says she read English Literature from 2012 to 2015.
Is Olivia Utley related to Tom Utley of the Daily Mail?
Several profile sites say he is her uncle. None of them names a source, and no established outlet has reported it. Treat it as unconfirmed.
When is Saturday Morning Live on GB News?
Saturdays, 10am to midday, with Utley presenting.
Does Olivia Utley have a Wikipedia page?
No.
She reported from Westminster for a channel built on the argument that British broadcasting had stopped asking hard questions, having spent the previous few years being asked onto Question Time.