Adam Boulton
Adam Boulton was born in Reading, England, United Kingdom on February 15th, 1959 and is the Journalist. At the age of 65, Adam Boulton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Thomas Adam Babington Boulton (born 15 February 1959) is a British journalist and broadcaster who is now the Editor-at-large of Sky News and host of All Out Politics & Week In Review.
He is also the former political editor of Sky News.
He is based in central London at Sky News' Westminster studios.
He was the political editor of TV-am, the early-morning broadcasting franchise holder.
Since being asked to establish its politics team for the channel's debut in 1989, he held the position of Sky's Political Editor.
He is the former host of Sky News' Sunday Live with Adam Boulton, and he has hosted Boulton and Co on Sky News' weekly news and political show from 2011 to 2014.
Early life and education
Boulton, a 1959 graduate, is the son of pioneering anaesthetist Dr Thomas Boulton OBE (1925-2016) and Helen (née Brown). He comes from a line of bankers and clerks with a medical history on his mother's side. He was educated at Tower House School, a preparatory school in Berkshire, and Westminster School, a boarding school for boys in Westminster, central London, where he obtained A-levels in English, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. He then attended Christ Church, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins University, where he obtained degrees in English and International Relations.
Boulton was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business by Plymouth University in 2013.
Personal life
Boulton's first wife, Kerena Boulton, was divorced after his affair with Tony Blair's spin doctor Anji Hunter became front page tabloid news in 2002. Kerena is the niece of former Labour Minister and environmentalist Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett's eldest daughter, and Sonia Melchett, a writer and socialite, as the eldest daughter of former British Steel Corporation Chairman Julian Mond and Sonia Melchett. On July 22, 2006, Boulton married Hunter at St James' Church, Piccadilly. Both have children from their previous marriages.
Since being a journalist, he does not have voted for any party.
Career
Boulton had early roles at IPS News and the BBC. Before joining Sky News, he worked as a journalist in the parliamentary lobby. He was then political editor for TV-am, where his colleague was Kay Burley who later joined Sky News. It was during the 1987 general election that he was punched by Denis Healey after Anne Diamond asked Healey about his wife using private healthcare; the incident was witnessed by gossip columnist Nigel Dempster.
Boulton was asked to establish the politics team for the launch of Sky News in 1989. He thereby began a long tenure as political editor of the news channel.
Boulton won the Royal Television Society's supreme Judge's Award and was elected the 2007 chairman of the parliamentary lobby. On 15 June 2008 he became the first British television reporter to conduct a joint interview of US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura. Boulton was based in Washington, D.C. from January 2009, covering the first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency for Sky News.
On 22 April 2010, during the UK general election campaign, Boulton hosted Sky News' leaders' debate live from Bristol, the second in a series of three televised debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg produced, in turn, and on consecutive Thursdays, by ITV News, Sky News and the BBC.
On 10 May 2010, while covering events on the aftermath of the general election, Boulton lost his composure with former 10 Downing Street Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, defending his impartiality in a live on-air interview after Campbell accused Boulton of political bias in favour of the Conservatives. Boulton shouted at Campbell: "Don't tell me what I think". At the time both Labour and the Conservatives were trying to broker a deal with the Liberal Democrats aimed at forming a coalition government. A similar disagreement occurred later on that evening in an exchange with Ben Bradshaw. The media regulator Ofcom received several hundred complaints about the Campbell incident from viewers. During the campaign he had been asked to calm down by Peter Mandelson when he questioned him about possible spending cuts that the Financial Times believed would have to be made following the election. He was also accused of bias for the way he questioned Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, it was claimed in contravention of the pre-established rules, during the leaders' debate hosted by Sky News. Ofcom rejected the complaints. On 20 January 2011 Boulton once again interviewed Alastair Campbell on Sky News, ahead of Tony Blair's appearance in front of the Iraq Inquiry. Both apologised about the incident and shook hands at the end of the interview.
Boulton left the role of Sky News' political editor before the 2014 Scottish independence referendum to become its Editor-at-large. He had been political editor for 25 years and five general elections. His successor in the role was Faisal Islam.
Since 2017, Boulton has presented All Out Politics on Sky News, from 9 am to 11 am, Monday to Friday. He also maintains a blog on the Sky News website and presents Week in Review. Additionally, he presents a review of Prime Minister's Questions on a Wednesday evening, with regular guests to discuss the performance of ministers involved in the House of Commons earlier in the day and more seriously, the legislation and ideas that they present to the House.
He has written for newspapers and magazines including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman and Independent. He has been a guest of programmes such as Newsnight, Bremner, Bird and Fortune and Have I Got News for You. He has interviewed every British Prime Minister from David Cameron back to Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
On 10 November 2021, Boulton announced he would be leaving Sky News at the end of the year. In an interview with The Times, he explained: "It looks like the direction which Sky News wants to go over the next few years is not one that's a particularly good fit for me. Sky News head John Ryley believes the future of news is digital, is on the platform for phones and is very strongly based around data journalism. At that point you do start thinking".
In April 2022, Boulton has become a regular panellist on the TalkTV (British TV channel) programme 'The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn'.
Boulton presents a Sunday Morning Show between 10am -1pm for Times Radio alongside Kate McCann
Boulton continues to be a freelance Political Correspondent for Sky News GB News and Talk TV (British TV Channel)