Bill Turnbull
Bill Turnbull was born in Guildford, England, United Kingdom on January 25th, 1956 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 66, Bill Turnbull biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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William Robert Turnbull (born 25 January 1956) is an English journalist and host who now works as a presenter for the radio station Classic FM after many years as a presenter for the BBC. He was the main male host of BBC Breakfast from 2001 to 2016, and he now appears on the religious television show Songs of Praise and game show Think Tank.
Early life
Turnbull was born in Guildford, Surrey, on January 25, 1956, to an English father of Scottish descent and an English mother. He was educated at Eton College and the University of Edinburgh, where he edited the student newspaper. In 1978, he graduated from Cardiff University.
Personal life and death
Sarah McCombie was married in the London Borough of Hackney in March 1988. Henry (born October 1988), Will (born October 1989), and Flora (born August 1991). Turnbull and his wife trained in Buckinghamshire but in 2012, they moved to Rainow, Cheshire, following BBC Breakfast's relocation to Salford. He migrated to Theberton, Suffolk, later in life.
Turnbull, a fan of Wycombe Wanderers F.C., was a fan. He spoke at home games for online listeners. Beekeeping, chickens, and dancing were among his hobbies. In addition, Turnbull enjoyed long-distance running, having participated in the London Marathon on several occasions, and the Great North Run on October 5, 2008. Turnbull was awarded an honorary doctorate from Buckinghamshire New University in recognition of his charitable work within the Buckinghamshire community on September 8, 2009.
He published The Bad Beekeepers Club, a comedic book about beekeeping's ups and downs in May 2010.
Turnbull revealed in March 2018 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer the previous year. He died at his Suffolk home on August 31st 2022 at the age of 66. The commentary gantry at Wycombe Wanderers' Adams Park was renamed after Turnbull's honour was renamed after his death.
Career
Turnbull began working at Radio Clyde, a Scottish local radio station, in 1978; he later freelanced in the United States for a number of years. Turnbull first appeared on the Today show in 1986 and Breakfast Time as a reporter before becoming a correspondent for BBC News in 1990. He covered a variety of domestic and international news, including a four-year stint as Washington Correspondent, based in the United States. Sian Williams, who was his manager for a while, was Sian Williams. He covered a variety of important American news, including the O. J. Simpson murder trial and the Monica Lewinsky affair that shocked Bill Clinton's presidency. Turnbull returned to the United Kingdom in 1997 and became one of BBC News 24's top presenters, alongside Valerie Sanderson. He has also appeared on Radio 5 Live, including a stint as a host on Weekend Breakfast.
Turnbull joined the BBC Breakfast crew in 2001 as a weekend host, first appearing with Sian Williams and then later with Sarah Montague, Mishal Husain, and Susanna Reid. He appeared on the weekday program as a relief host, as well as Sophie Raworth, Natasha Kaplinsky, Kate Silverton, and Louise Minchin. In 2008, he returned Williams and replaced Dermot Murnaghan as the main weekday presenter of Breakfast. Turnbull also appeared on News at Six and News at One as a occasional relief host.
Turnbull appears on location regularly, as well as anchoreding programs in the studio. He was sent to New Orleans to cover BBC News after Hurricane Katrina, presenting both Breakfast and News at Six live from Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi. Turnbull anchored Breakfast's coverage from King's Cross station in the aftermath of the London bombings on July 7. He anchored the programme's coverage of the 2008 US presidential election live from Washington, D.C. and New York, and he was in Washington again for the 2012 US presidential election. He appeared in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2005 and partnered with Karen Hardy in 2005. Despite a serious ankle injury in the second week (which then flared up at various times in the series), he stayed in the tournament for seven weeks, finishing sixth out of twelve competitors.
Turnbull travelled around the UK in April and May 2010, presenting and reporting for Breakfast on the general election campaign trail. In the aftermath of the Cumbria shootings, he hosted Breakfast live from Whitehaven in June 2010. In 2013, he joined the BBC's Songs of Praise production team.
In 2015, he began narrating the CBBC sketch comedy series Class Dismissed, as himself in a cameo in episode 12. Turnbull would leave Breakfast early next year, according to a tycoon. On February 26, 2016, he appeared in his last film, with Louise Minchin.
He began hosting Think Tank, a daytime BBC One quiz show, in March 2016. On Classic FM, he began in April 2016 and hosted his own radio show. On Saturday and Sunday, the program aired from 10:00 am to 1:00 p.m. Turnbull narrated another CBBC mockumentary comedy series based on Paignton Zoo, The Zoo, which was broadcast on CBBC in 2017.
Turnbull appeared on three episodes of The One Show during 2016, alongside Alex Jones as the guest host. BBC One aired ten episodes of Holding Back the Years in March 2018, just as his cancer diagnosis was made public, starring Turnbull and Fiona Phillips providing tips on living well in later life.