John Stapleton
| John Stapleton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Martin Stapleton 24 February 1946 Oldham, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation |
Television presenter, journalist Thames TV Today (1971-75)BBC Nationwide (1975-80) BBC Panorama and BBC Newsnight (1980-83) TV-am (1983–85) Watchdog (1986–93) The Time, The Place (1991–98) GMTV (1994–2010) Daybreak (2010–14) Good Morning Britain (2014–15) The Late Debate (2015—) |
| Spouse(s) | Lynn Faulds Wood |
| Parent(s) | Frank and June |
| Website | john-stapleton |
Television presenter, journalist
John Martin Stapleton (born 24 February 1946) is an English award-winning journalist and presenter with fifty years experience in newspapers and television. He now works as a freelancer with various media outlets.
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 and Hulme Grammar School, Oldham and St John's College of Further Education, Manchester where he did "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 the Oldham Evening Chronicle for three years before moving onto the Daily Sketch, first in Manchester and then London.
Stapleton is a former Royal Television Society News Presenter of the Year. His career began on local newspapers in North West England, before becoming a staff reporter on the Daily Sketch in Fleet Street. His first job in television was as a researcher and script writer on This is Your Life, presented at the time by Eamonn Andrews.
He subsequently worked as a reporter on the Thames TV regional news magazine show Today from 1971 until 1975. He joined the BBC Nationwide programme in 1975 as a reporter, and then became one of the main presenters from 1977 until 1980. While on Nationwide he also carried out major investigations into council corruption in South Wales and protection rackets in Northern Ireland. He also compered a number of one-off light entertainment shows for the BBC, including the Miss United Kingdom beauty pageant. From 1980 until 1983, he was a correspondent on the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight programmes, reporting from trouble spots such as the Middle East and El Salvador before working for three months as Newsnight's correspondent in Argentina during the Falklands War. From 1983 to 1985, he worked at TV-am as a reporter and as a presenter of Good Morning Britain. In 1986 John rejoined the BBC, where he presented the BBC One peak time consumer programme Watchdog until 1993, alongside his wife Lynn Faulds Wood. John was also during this time a presenter for the BBC's Breakfast Time when, in 1986, the programme switched over to a news format.
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