It takes two and Kate's happy

From Sydney Confidential
April 25, 2007


CHANNEL 7 golden girl Kate Ritchie has launched into the next phase of her professional and personal life after scoring her first TV hosting role, and a new boyfriend to boot.

Just months after making a successful foray into broadcasting on radio station Nova, Ritchie is on song to extend her career beyond Home and Away after signing up to co-host the second season of It Takes Two with Grant Denyer.

In her first major TV role away from the Summer Bay set, Ritchie will replace Teresa Livingstone as co-host on the celebrity karaoke contest when it warbles its way into loungerooms on Tuesday, May 8.

Livingstone's embarrassing return to Australian TV last year was obviously off-key - sending a live cheerio to a contestant's dead father wasn't her best moment - and the actress has now headed back to LA to improve her luck.

For Ritchie, upgrading herself from being an It Takes Two contestant to the program's co-host isn't the only new project on her busy schedule - she has also won herself a new man along the way.

Having finally sounded the full-time siren on her on-again, off-again relationship with embattled NRL player Chris Walker last August, Ritchie has been secretly dating professional skateboarder Corbin Harris for the past two months.

The pair may have a bit of an age gap - Ritchie, 28, is four years senior to Harris - but Confidential hears they have been anything but short on romance since meeting at Ada Nicodemou's big fat Greek wedding to Chrys Xipolitas in February.