Matthew Fergus Arnold is a British journalist and television presenter who has worked for HTV,

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 Uni ...

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, and the

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Life

Born in

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, Arnold attended

Gresham's School Gresham's School is a private school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) in Holt, Norfolk, England, one of the top thirty International Baccalaureate schools in England. The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a f ...

from 1975 to 1980. He then travelled around the world for a few years, before being commissioned into the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...

in 1986 as an Aircrew Officer, flying in Lynx helicopters. After five years his time in the Navy came to an end, and in 1991 he was hired as a runner on the ITV daytime game show '' Talk About'', before studying for a career in journalism at Highbury College in Hampshire. In 1993

Capital Radio Capital London is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global Media & Entertainment as part of its national Capital (radio network), Capital Network. As Capital Radio it was launched in the London area in 1973 as one of Bri ...

gave Arnold a job with its show ''Flying Eye'', and for two years he advised Londoners on traffic problems. In 1995 Arnold was one of the first presenters on the new

cable television Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with bro ...

channel L!VE TV, as sports and showbusiness reporter. In 1996 he joined HTV as a sports presenter, moving on to become an HTV news presenter. From there he joined

, then in 2003 became

's Northern Correspondent. GMTV transferred him to London in 2007, and he stayed with it until GMTV was ended by ITV in 2010. In 1999, Arnold and his wife were living in

Battersea Battersea is a large district in southwest London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and also extends along the south bank of the Thames Tideway. It includes the Battersea Park. Hist ...

. After the end of GMTV they moved to Cambridgeshire. Arnold now runs a family hotel business in Suffolk, with it winning the hit Channel Four show '' Four in a Bed'' in 2015.About Matt
bridgehotelbrandon.com, accessed 17 August 2021

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