Julia Bradbury

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Julia Bradbury (born 24 July 1970) is an English television presenter, employed by the BBC and ITV, specialising in documentaries and consumer affairs. She is best known for co-presenting the BBC One programme Countryfile with Matt Baker from 2004 until 2014.

She also presented Watchdog (2005–2009) and Planet Earth Live (2012) for the BBC and Take on the Twisters (2013), The Wonder of Britain (2015) and Britain's Best Walks (2017) for ITV. She has a website called The Outdoor Guide which is run by her sister Gina.

Early life

Bradbury's father Michael Bradbury, a Derbyshire-born, steel and engineering industry marketing director and Greek mother were in the Republic of Ireland when Bradbury was born. The family returned to Britain, where she grew up in an old rectory and attended primary school in Edith Weston, Rutland, followed by King Edward VII School in Sheffield, where her father worked for British Steel Corporation and her mother ran a fashion business. Bradbury attended acting classes, and took part as a child in the Crucible Theatre's stage production of Peter Pan, starring Joanne Whalley and Paula Wilcox.

Personal life

Bradbury lives in Rutland and West London.

Her long time partner Gerard Cunningham, works in property and is father to her children, twin girls Zena and Xanthe and son Zeph. In summer 2006, Bradbury was treated for endometriosis.

In February 2011, Bradbury and Cunningham announced they were expecting their first child, despite Bradbury's problems with endometriosis. On 4 August 2011, Bradbury gave birth to her first child, a son named Zephyrus Cunningham.

On 26 September 2014, it was announced that Bradbury and Cunningham were expecting again, this time with twins which were conceived via IVF. On 12 March 2015, Bradbury gave birth to twin girls Xanthe and Zena.

On 19 September 2021, Bradbury announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and that she would require a mastectomy later in the year.

Bradbury is an ambassador to several charities including the Pink Ribbon Foundation, The Outdoor Guide Foundation, Bowel & Prostate Cancer and Keep Britain Tidy.

In 2009, she competed in the Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge with her sister, Gina Fox, raising £7,000 towards the £105,000 raised for Macmillan Cancer Support. Later that year, she travelled from Kazakhstan to Mongolia with Countryfile co-star Matt Baker in BBC's Around the World in 80 Days in aid of Children in Need.

Bradbury was president of the Friends of the Peak District from 2008 until 2016 (remaining now as a Vice-President) and she is Vice-President of the CPRE in South Yorkshire. In April 2010 she became president of the Ramblers.

Bradbury also works with the British Heart Foundation to encourage people to exercise more.

In February 2012, Bradbury was appointed an ambassador for the Scout Association.

In October 2013, she became president of the Camping and Caravanning Club, whose previous presidents included Dr David Bellamy, Lord Baden-Powell and Scott of the Antarctic. This made her the first woman to hold the post.

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Career

Bradbury began as a television presenter on Chrysalis TV and L!VE TV before moving from cable TV to terrestrial with GMTV as its Los Angeles correspondent in 1996. Bradbury appeared on Top Gear as a co-host in the 1990s.

Bradbury, Tim Vine, was the first presenter on Channel 5 when the network first launched on March 30th, 1997 with a countdown from the Spice Girls.

Are We Being Served?, a BBC show focusing on customer care in the United Kingdom and running for six programmes in the summer of 2006. Bradbury and co-host Arkin Salih appeared on the BBC. During comedian Lee Mack's appearance on TV Heaven, Telly Hell, the show later received heavy criticism.

On BBC Three, Bradbury appeared in four series of Kill It, Cook It, Eat It from 2008 to 2011. The first series concentrated on industrially farmed animals such as chickens, pigs, sheep, and cattle. The second season of Hunted Wild Game, such as ducks, rabbits, deer, and grouse were included in the second series. The third series was devoted to fast food; a group of six people went through the process of killing, cooking, and eating animals. The fourth series explored how animal products from the first series can be used outside of the meat industry. As body parts were redesigned from abattoir to store display, Bradbury was accompanied by young people to discover the animal origins of many of western society's most popular items.

Bradbury resigned from BBC One's Watchdog following rumors in the media regarding irregularities in her Virgin Atlantic frequent flyer account, from February 2nd. With Nicky Campbell as co-protester, Anita Rani stepped in to co-present the show. Bradbury was found not guilty of any wrongdoing in the probe on April 15, 2009, and it was announced that she would return to Watchdog, which she did on April 20, 2009.

Bradbury had to pay £20,000 in Air Miles, according to several newspapers at the time, but her account (and several others) had been tampered with by an employee who was later arrested and charged. Bradbury will debut the relaunched primetime Countryfile with Matt Baker in April 2009. After an eight-year absence, Anne Robinson returned to Watchdog.

On BBC One, Bradbury presented Ultimate Britain – Climbing, alongside rock climber Tim Emmett. Bradbury's lifetime aspiration to be a "tru" rock climber was fulfilled as the pair scaled Commando Ridge, Crackstone Rib in the Llanberis Pass, and the Old Man of Stoer.

Bradbury also hosted Wainwright Walks on BBC Four in which she followed the mountain paths of the renowned fall walker and guidebook author Alfred Wainwright. On BBC Two, the series was later repeated and ran for two seasons. "Walking Man's Totty" was her first name after her appearance in this and the Railway Walks collection. Coast to Coast, her BBC Two show Coast to Coast, began on July 20, 2009.

Bradbury travelled to South Africa in 2010 and embarked on a string of South Africa Walks as part of the BBC's South Africa season.

Julia Bradbury's German Wanderlust, Julia Bradbury's Wanderlust, featured Germany and its Romantic history in December 2010, a series of walks around the country. In January and February 2011, the series was repeated on BBC Two. Julia Bradbury and Julia Bradbury appeared together on Canal Walks in May 2011.

Julia Bradbury's Icelandic Walk, BBC Four's second walking show, aired on May 11, 2011. She attempted to walk the 60 kilometres of Iceland's most popular hiking trail, which includes the newest peaks on Earth. This route comes to an end in Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano whose ferocious eruptions of volcanic ash brought air traffic across Europe to a halt in April 2010. In May 2011, she debuted a new series, following the routes of some of the country's canals.

That's Britain was a series that ran from November to December 2011. With Nick Knowles, the good, the bad, and the ugly in Britain are all in focus. Hugh Dennis was a host of The Great British Countryside, a four-part BBC One documentary series that began in February 2012. In 2012, she co-produced (with Richard Hammond) a documentary about the animals of different nations called Planet Earth Live, which has aired on BBC One.

Bradbury co-presented the BBC One show Fightback Britain with Adrian Simpson and Matt Allwright of Keep Britain Safe 24/7.

Bradbury would leave Countryfile and the BBC entirely later this year before joining ITV full-time after doing odd jobs for them in the past. In 2016, she was featured in Sport Relief's The Popular, Rich, and Homeless programme, which was the third series.

Wish You Were Here...? ITV's ITV program "The Invisible Woman" is a fictional character in the film.

Bradbury co-produced the two-part ITV series Mystery Map with Ben Shephard in 2013. She appeared on the Twisters, a summer replacement for The Chase, in the same year.

Bradbury's Wonder of Britain, an ITV primetime series, debuted in 2015.

With a View with Julia Bradbury, Bradbury began presenting her own eight-part ITV series Best Walks in 2016. Unforgettable Walks, a book that was accompanying the series, was published alongside it.

Bradbury hosted Britain's Best Walks for ITV from January 2017. She co-presented a one-off series called Britain's Favorite Walks: Top 100, which was voted for by the public in 2018. Ore Oduba joined us.

Julia Bradbury and My $100K Holiday Home, a recent primetime ITV series, appeared in Australia in 2019.

Julia Bradbury hosted the first episode of a new ITV series entitled The Greek Islands on January 10, 2020.

From 1997, she anchored Exclusive!

Bradbury has appeared on radio for BBC London 94.9 and Radio 5 Live. On July 15, she crossed NUJ picket lines to host Radio 5 Live's breakfast show. Ian Payne, who also broke the strike, appeared on the program.

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