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Nick Mullins (born 31 January 1966) is a British journalist and sports commentator, primarily working on
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's
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coverage.


Early life

Mullins began his career as a journalist with the ''Loughborough Trader'' and ''
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''.


Commentary career

Mullins joined the
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in 1985 and moved to BBC Radio Sport in 1991. He was part of the ''
Rugby Special {{unreferenced, date=February 2021 ''Rugby Special'' was the main rugby union programme on the BBC in the UK. The show ran from 1966 and past presenters included David Vine, Keith Macklin, Cliff Morgan, Chris Rea, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Bill Beaum ...
'' team and covered Six Nations Championship, Premiership, Heineken Cup and
Anglo-Welsh Cup The Anglo-Welsh Cup (), was a cross-border rugby union knock-out cup competition that featured the 12 Premiership Rugby clubs and the four Welsh regions. It was a created as a replacement for the RFU Knockout Cup, which featured only English clubs ...
rugby matches for the BBC. He also commentated at Wimbledon for
Radio 5 Live BBC Radio 5 Live is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that broadcasts mainly news, sport, discussion, interviews and phone-ins. It is the principal BBC radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcas ...
. He has commentated at the
Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ...
since 1996. In 2010 Mullins left the BBC to commentate on
ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th ...
's rugby coverage. Mullins was also ITV Sport's chief commentator at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand and 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he commentated on the final with
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and
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. In 2013, Mullins moved to BT Sport following their acquisition of the Premiership Rugby rights and their subsequent takeover of ESPN. He has also provided commentary from the French Open Tennis for ITV Sport, and the
University Boat Race The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. There are separate men's a ...
. He was part of the BBC Commentary team for the
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.


Writing

As well as commentating, Mullins has contributed to
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s from some of the events he has commentated at, including the Olympic Games and French Open. He is also a columnist for ESPN Scrum.com.


Personal life

Mullins is a supporter of
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. He was previously married to
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presenter
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, and they have two children. In 2016, Mullins married Melissa Platt. Platt was a reporter for Sky Sports but is now the Head of Communications for Wasps Rugby Club and the Head of Media for the Rugby Players' Association (RPA).


References

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