Mark Speight

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Warwick Fordham Speight (6 August 1965 – 7 April 2008) was an English television presenter and host of the children's art program SMART.

Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire, and at 16 she dropped out of school to become a cartoonist.

He obtained his diploma in commercial and graphic art and heard auditions for a new children's art program while working in television set design.

Speight was a hit in his audition and became one of the first SMART presenters, having been involved in it for 14 years. Speight appeared on See It Saw It, where he met his future fiancée, actor, and model Natasha Collins.

He appeared at live events, including Rolf on Art and his own Speight of the Art workshops for children.

He was involved in charitable work; he became the president of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's Young Pavement Artists Competition; and he was a spokesperson for ChildLine. Speight discovered Collins' body in the bath of their shared London flat in January 2008.

He was arrested on suspicion of her murder but not on suspicion of guilty, but not guilty.

Collins died as a result of a drug overdose and severe burns from hot water, according to an inquest later.

Speight was reported missing in April and was later discovered to have hanged himself near Paddington station.

Two suicide notes were discovered, describing how he could no longer live his life without Collins.

Early life

Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire. He grew up in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, and had two brothers, Tina-Louise Richmond (née Speight), and Jason Speight. Oliver Warwick Speight, his father, was a land developer, and Jacqueline Fordham Speight (née Parker), his mother, Jacqueline Fordham Speight (née Parker), was an art teacher. Jacqueline died on September 5, 2008, at the age of 62. Speight attended Tettenhall College for a year before going to the King's C.E. At the age of 12, the school, also in Tettenhall, began. Speight admitted in an interview that he was a slow learner in school with a short attention span, and that art was a way for him to connect. He said he did "very badly" because he was a victim of bullying, and the "daily ordeal for two years" made him "celebrators" him become the "class joker." Speight left aged 16 and attended Bilston Art School, where he obtained a degree in commercial and graphic art.

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Career

Speight intended to be a cartoonist, but he became a television host after a career painting the stage of a television show. He auditioned for SMART, and after a fruitful interview with future co-presenter Jay Burridge, he went on to represent SMART from its first edition in 1994. Speight first met Burridge, whose art gallery in West London was used to produce all of the artwork for SMART, and Burridge said: "We'll bounce ideas and quip about what made each other laugh all day until we had an almost telepathically connected knowledge of what made each other laugh." Zoe Ball, the third presenter of Speight and Burridge who was replaced first by Josie d'Arby, and then Kirsten O'Brien and Lizi Botham followed them. Speight on the Road, SMarteenies, and various live shows at Burridge, O'Brien, and Botham. He appeared on BAFTA-nominated ITV's Saturday morning show Scratchy & Co. from 1995 to 1998.

Speight's other assignments ranged from children's television to adult factual programs. His children's television appearances include playing the Abominable No Man in Timmy Mallett's Timmy Towers and presenting Beat the Cyborgs, Name That Toon, Inside Insides Out, and History Busters, the last of which received a Royal Television Society Award. Speight appeared on This Morning, The Heaven and Earth Show, The Big Breakfast, and was a contestant on ITV's Gladiators and Celebrity Wrestling. Speight also appeared on children's program See It Saw It, where he met Natasha Collins. Collins was seriously injured after being hit by a car in 2001 and had to leave See It Saw It. Speight began dating her in 2003, and the two met in Barbados in 2005. They planned to marry in opulent attire, and Speight joked that monkeys would be present at the reception, which is his favorite animal.

Speight appeared in Rolf Harris' Rolf on Art in 2004, where a massive recreation of John Constable's The Hay Wain was created in Trafalgar Square. In 2005, he was involved in a similar project in which Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa were both reconstructed, the former in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. Speight had planned a trip to Borneo in March 2008 to teach injured orangutans not to fight each other, but no one came together, but it didn't happen. Speight of the Art, a series of art workshops he ran for children, toured frequently, and he appeared as "Buttons" in Cinderella in December 2007.

Speight has been involved in charitable work. He was president of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's Young Pavement Artists Competition, which was initiated as a one-off, year-long campaign that ended up lasting eight years, and he served as a spokesperson for ChildLine. In 2007, he was the host of the Müller Big Art Project for Comic Relief in Trafalgar Square.

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