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John Stapleton (English journalist) (John Martin Stapleton) was born on 24 February, 1946 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, is an English broadcaster and journalist. Discover John Stapleton (English journalist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As John Martin Stapleton
Occupation Journalist, broadcaster
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 24 February 1946
Birthday 24 February
Birthplace Oldham, Lancashire, England
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1946

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.

1970

Stapleton has interviewed many British Prime Minister beginning with James Callaghan in the 1970s and was one of the contributors to the BBC series Grumpy Old Men.

He has presented three political discussion programmes, ITV Central, The Lobby, transmitted in the Midlands, Last Orders for ITV Yorkshire and the London Debate transmitted in London and the South East.

1971

He subsequently worked as a reporter on the Thames TV regional news magazine show Today from 1971 until 1975.

1972

In May 1972 he reported for the "Today" programme on the very last speedway meeting at the famous West Ham track.

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.

1980

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.

1983

From 1983 to 1985, he worked at TV-am as a reporter and as a presenter of Good Morning Britain.

1985

Together they presented Watchdog between 1985 and 1993.

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's 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.

1986

In 1986, Stapleton rejoined the BBC, where he presented the BBC One peak time consumer programme Watchdog, alongside his wife until 1993.

He was also a presenter for the BBC's Breakfast Time in 1986, as the programme transitioned to a news focus format.

1993

In 1993, Stapleton returned to ITV to front the live morning talk show The Time, The Place, and for four years he presented the ITV Sunday morning programme My Favourite Hymns, in which he interviewed a wide variety of guests about their faith and its impact on their lives.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Earl Spencer, Princess Michael of Kent, the former South African president F.W. De Klerk, the author Maya Angelou and Coronation Street's William Roache were amongst his many guests.

1997

In 1997, Stapleton, along with Sir Trevor McDonald, presented the live and controversial Monarchy debate for ITV in front of three thousand people at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre

and at GMTV; he also anchored many major news stories.

Among them, the war in Kosovo when he was based on the Albanian border covering the refugee crisis.

1998

In 1998, Stapleton joined the ITV breakfast programme GMTV as a presenter of the Newshour.

2003

He won the Royal Television Society's News Presenter of the Year award for 2003, and was married to the late presenter Lynn Faulds Wood.

In 2003, he appeared on a celebrity edition in Series 13 of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire alongside GMTV colleague Lorraine Kelly.

The episode was aired on 19 April 2003, where they won £8,000 for charity.

2004

This was followed by his anchoring four American elections, the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in South East Asia, Pope John Paul II's funeral in Rome and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

In 2004, he was made the Royal Television Society's News Presenter of the Year – largely for his work on GMTV covering the 2003 war in Iraq and interviews he conducted with political party leaders including the then Prime Minister Tony Blair.

He returned to Iraq to front two special programmes for GMTV commemorating the fifth anniversary of the war.

He was also a reporter for the prime time ITV Tonight programme.

Stapleton has over the years also presented many regional news and current affairs programmes including the BBC's London Plus, Facing South for Meridian and Central Weekend Live for Central TV.

2010

In 2010, he joined the newly established ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak as their Special Correspondent.

During his time with the programme, Stapleton was also a part-time presenter.

2014

In 2014, it was announced that Daybreak was to come to an end after four years of broadcasting.

2015

It would be replaced by a new breakfast programme Good Morning Britain where he remained until July 2015.

He has worked in radio, standing in for other presenters on LBC, facilitates conferences, appeared on TV as a pundit for the BBC News Channel, and writes for newspapers.