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Diggit
The following details are for the programmes that GMTV (Good Morning Television) broadcast on ITV. GMTV is the former breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on Friday 1 January 1993 and finished on Friday 3 September 2010, being replaced by ITV Breakfast. ''GMTV'' 1993–2000 ''GMTV'' is the original brand for GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme from 6:00 am. It included national and international news stories, regional news, weather, interviews, cookery and health features, human-interest and showbiz stories, and competitions. In spring 1993, shortly after the channel's launch, a separate news-focused programme was introduced between 6:00am and 7:00 am, which in early 1994 became ''The Reuters News Hour''. The main 6:00–9:00 am programme remained named ''GMTV'' but, as part of the show's new look for the millennium, this main programme later became ''GMTV Today''. On 3 January 2000, ''GMTV'' relaunched and chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GMTV
GMTV (an initialism for Good Morning Television), now legally known as ''ITV Breakfast, ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited'', was the name of the national ITV (TV network), ITV breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009.ITV buys remaining 25 pct stake in GMTV Reuters report on Interactive Investor, 26 November 2009 Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of ''List of GMTV programmes#GMTV, GMTV'' was broadcast on 3 September 2010. GMTV transmitted daily from 6 am with GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme ''List of GMTV programmes#GMTV, GMTV'' broadcasting until 8:25 (9:25 on Friday), followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stapleton (English Journalist)
John Martin Stapleton (born 24 February 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work as a presenter and reporter on ITV breakfast television (''TV-am'', ''GMTV'' and '' Daybreak'') in addition to hosting '' Nationwide'' and ''Watchdog'' for the BBC. Stapleton won the Royal Television Society's News Presenter of the Year award for 2003, and was married to the late presenter Lynn Faulds Wood. Together they presented ''Watchdog'' between 1985 and 1993. Early life Stapleton was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His father Frank was secretary of the local co-operative and his mother June was a part-time primary school teacher. Stapleton was educated at Diggle Primary School, Hulme Grammar School, Oldham, and St John's College of Further Education, Manchester, where he took "A" levels. He did not go to university, but started working as a trainee reporter at the age of seventeen on the now defunct ''Eccles and Patricroft Journal''. He was later indentured to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Nasir
Clare Lyn Nasir (born 20 June 1970) is an English meteorologist, author, and TV presenter. Early life Born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Nasir's family is musical, with Nasir playing the saxophone, while three of her brothers are professional musicians. Nasir attended Kingsbrook School in South Northamptonshire, where in 1988 she obtained A-levels in Mathematics, Geography and History. She then studied at the University of Plymouth, graduating with an honours degree in Mathematics, continuing on with her master's degree in Applied Marine Sciences. Career After university studies, Nasir joined the Met Office, training to become a qualified weather forecaster. Two years later, Nasir joined the Met Office's London Weather Centre, offering weather forecasting and presenting services to London radio stations and media outlets. Subsequently, she took a position as forecaster and presenter for Anglia Television in 1997. She returned to London to work for Carlton Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Fospero
Helen Fospero (née Morton; born 30 August 1966) is an English television presenter and journalist, best known for her presenting roles on shows such as ''GMTV'', ''Daybreak (2010 TV programme), Daybreak'', and ''Lorraine (TV programme), Lorraine''. She is currently working as a reporter for ''Watchdog (TV series), Watchdog'' and ''The One Show'' on the BBC. Early life Born Helen Jane Morton in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, she grew up in nearby Grimsby, and attended Hereford School (now Ormiston Maritime Academy), Grimsby. Her grandfather George Barker, was one of the Grimsby Chums. She left school just before her 18th birthday and started her career at the local weekly newspaper. A short time later she joined a national news agency, writing for tabloids and broadsheets in Fleet Street. Career Fospero's television career began when she was one of the first journalists to be recruited by British Sky Broadcasting, Sky Television in 1989. She was a home news editor when the chann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Lewis (financial Journalist)
Martin Steven Lewis Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 9 May 1972) is an English financial journalist and broadcaster. Lewis founded the website MoneySavingExpert.com. He sold the website in 2012 to the Moneysupermarket.com group for up to £87 million. Lewis is currently a presenter for ITV (TV network), ITV, on the morning shows ''Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme), Good Morning Britain'' and ''This Morning (TV programme), This Morning'' since 2007. He also presents ''The Martin Lewis Money Show''. Lewis has led various campaigns on high bank charges, energy bills and student finance costs, as well as the link between mental health and debt. Early life and education Lewis was born at Withington Community Hospital, Withington Hospital in Manchester in 1972. His family lived in the Manchester suburb of Didsbury. While still a child he moved with his family to the village of Norley, near Delamere Forest in rural Cheshire, where his father was appointed headmaster of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul O'Grady
Paul James O'Grady (14 June 1955 – 28 March 2023) was an English comedian, broadcaster, drag queen, actor, and writer. He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag persona Lily Savage, through which he gained wider popularity in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including ''The Paul O'Grady Show''. Born to a working-class Irish migrant family in Tranmere, Cheshire, O'Grady moved to London in the late 1970s, initially working as a peripatetic care officer for Camden Council. He developed his drag act in 1978, basing the character of Lily Savage upon traits found among female relatives. Touring England as part of drag mime duo the Playgirls, O'Grady then went solo as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s. Performing as Savage for eight years at a South London gay pub, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern (RVT), he gained a popular following among London's g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Winton
Dale Jonathan Winton (22 May 1955 – 18 April 2018) was an English radio DJ and television presenter. He presented the shows '' Supermarket Sweep'' from 1993 until 2001 and again in 2007, the National Lottery game show '' In It to Win It'' between 2002 and 2016 and the 2008 series of '' Hole in the Wall''. Winton also presented '' Pets Win Prizes'' (1995–96) and '' The Other Half'' (1997–2002). Early life Winton was born on 22 May 1955 to a Jewish father, Gary Winton, and actress Sheree Winton, a Jewish convert. Winton's father died on the day of his bar mitzvah and so he was brought up by his mother. Winton's mother died by suicide in 1976 while suffering from depression. Career Radio Winton started DJing in clubs in Richmond in 1972, where he met Steve Allen, the LBC radio presenter. The two remained friends thereafter, and lived together for a period as well as going on holiday together. From there he had a selection of jobs including selling timeshares. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Redington
Amanda Redington (born January 1962) is a British presenter and actress. She has been a presenter for cable and satellite TV channels such as Music Box and Sky Channel, during the mid and late 1980s, on GMTV in 1993 and on ''The Warehouse'' on Anglia TV. Redington was a member of the music trio called K-Ram (their only hit was ''Menage à trois'' in 1984) and she took part in The Rap Pack. She married Dutch singer Frank Boeijen in 1990. They divorced in 1994. She has acted on the stage in ''Wife Begins at 40'', playing Linda Harper; in ''Bedside Manners'' as Sally; in ''Snow White'' as the Wicked Queen; and in ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' as the fairy. Redington played the title role in ''Peter Pan'' at the Lewisham Theatre; she also played Jack in ''Jack and the Beanstalk''; and she played Sandy in '' Grease'' at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. Her film roles include Miss February in '' Sahara Sandwich'' (1991); Dorothy Rosenbaum in '' Flodders in America'' (1992); and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fern Britton
Fern M. Philomena Britton (born 17 July 1957) is an English television presenter and author. After beginning her career as a continuity announcer and a newsreader, she went on to co-present '' Breakfast Time'' in the 1980s and hosted the cookery game show ''Ready Steady Cook'' between 1994 and 2000 on BBC One. Britton presented the ITV daytime programme '' This Morning'' from 1999 to 2009. She also co-presented the British Soap Awards between 2006 and 2008 and ''All Star Mr & Mrs'' between 2008 and 2010. Following her departure from ''This Morning'', she went on to present '' Fern Britton Meets...'' for the BBC between 2009 and 2017 and ''Fern'' for Channel 4 in 2011. She also presented '' The Big Allotment Challenge'' for the BBC between 2014 and 2015 and fronted a revival of '' Watercolour Challenge'' for Channel 5 in 2022. Britton is also an author, having published a number of bestselling novels and books varying from short stories to non-fiction, several of which have feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Heyes
Mark Heyes (born 24 January 1977) is a British fashion journalist, fashion presenter, writer and broadcaster who is known for his appearances on ''Lorraine''. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a BA (Hons) degree in design, and broke through on Channel 4's ''She's Gotta Have It'' as an on-screen and behind the scenes stylist. In 2009, ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...'' listed him in their Top 100 Most Influential People in the Fashion Industry. References External links Mark Heyes - GMTV profile* Living people British fashion journalists Mass media people from Glasgow Place of birth missing (living people) Scottish television personalities Scottish businesspeople in fashion Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Fash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent Islands of Scotland, islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. To the south-east, Scotland has its Anglo-Scottish border, only land border, which is long and shared with England; the country is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the north-east and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. The population in 2022 was 5,439,842. Edinburgh is the capital and Glasgow is the most populous of the cities of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the 9th century. In 1603, James VI succeeded to the thrones of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland, forming a personal union of the Union of the Crowns, three kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Crosby
Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977) is a British television newsreader and journalist. Between 2003 and 2009, Crosby worked at Sky News, regularly co-presenting their breakfast programme ''Sunrise'', along with various other programmes on the channel. In 2009, she joined ITV to co-present ''GMTV'', which she hosted until the show was replaced by '' Daybreak'' the following year. She co-hosted ''GMTV'' with Andrew Castle or Ben Shephard two or three days a week in rotation with Kate Garraway. She joined Channel 5 in 2011, where she worked as their chief anchor on ''5 News'' until 2015. She returned to Sky News in June 2017. Early life The only child of an English father who worked for Sainsbury's and a Scottish mother who worked for Marks & Spencer, Crosby was raised in Newbury, Berkshire. She studied drama, theatre, film and television at Leeds University, which included an internship at ITN, and undertook a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
