Martin Roberts

TV Show Host

Martin Roberts was born in Warrington, England, United Kingdom on July 20th, 1963 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 60, Martin Roberts 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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Date of Birth
July 20, 1963
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Age
60 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Television Presenter
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Kirsty Roberts
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Martin Roberts Life

Martin Leyland Roberts (born 20 July 1963) is an English television presenter and entrepreneur who appears on the BBC One property auction series Homes Under the Hammer co-presenters Martel Maxwell (since 2016) and Dion Dublin, although his co-presenter for many years was Lucy Alexander.

He also hosts 'Home Rule with Martin Roberts,' a talk radio show where he also talks about property.

Personal life

Roberts has lived in Paulton, Somerset, for many years, and is married with two children. He began his village's annual "Party in the Park" in 2017.

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Martin Roberts Career

Early life and career

Roberts was born in Warrington, Cheshire, and grew up in Stockton Heath, a suburb of Warrington. At BBC Radio Manchester in the late 1980s, Roberts began his career in the late 1980s. Roberts' grandfather was a well-known organist at various Warrington chapels.

He attended Appleton Hall Grammar School before going to Electronic Engineering at the University of Bradford, 1983-86, where he was a DJ on Ramair, the university's radio station. Roberts has been working as a property developer since the early 1990s and has contributed to several publications, both on the topic of property improvement and travel.

Since then, he has appeared on numerous other shows, including Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and How to Avoid the Property Crisis, both for the BBC and ITV's travel show Wish You Were Here. Roberts is most well-known for his work as BBC's Overseas Property expert and presenting Homes Under the Hammer since the program's inception in 2003 to the present day, as well as making regular appearances on BBC Breakfast, BBC News 24, and The One Show.

Roberts also appeared on Ready Steady Cook with Homes Under the Hammer co-presenter Lucy Alexander. He has appeared on BBC gameshows Hole in the Wall and Pointless, raising funds for charity. Roberts began on the BBC television show Celebrity MasterChef in July 2010, but he was turned down at the first attempt despite having done well on the ingredient recognition task. Get Me Out of Here, Roberts, a contestant on I'm a Celebrity, in November 2016. After 15 days in camp, he was booted out in sixth place, ending in eighth place.

Roberts has worked on radio throughout his career as the BBC's UK and Overseas Property expert, appearing on numerous programmes on BBC radios 2, 4, and 5 Live. He appears on BBC Radio 2 and Moneybox, a regular guest presenter on The Jeremy Vine Show, which airs on BBC Radio 2 and Moneybox. In March 2016, Roberts began hosting "Gazumped," a weekly property radio show on Talk Radio (Saturday 11 – 1 p.m. and Sunday 5 – 7 p.m.). The show was later renamed "Home Rule" and Sunday editions were no longer available, but they were still broadcast from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.

Roberts slammed proposed government changes to England's planning regulations in September 2012, which would double the number of extensions that do not require authorization.

Roberts has written several books, including Teach Yourself Making Money from Property and The Property Auction Guide, as well as presenting on both radio and television.

Roberts has written several travel books, including Great Festivals of the World, The Traveller's Handbook, and Intrepid Africa. Roberts is the author of The Villes Children's Books collection. Sadsville, one of the books in the series, was written in collaboration with the NSPCC to remind children that if they want to talk to someone about any problems, they should call ChildLine, but it is unrelated to mental health. Martin Roberts went to his local primary school, where his children attended. He read the novel and gave the children a red bus to go.

Roberts is currently on radio show in which he looks at the living conditions of famous footballers.

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Inside the homes of TV's design experts: They judge our houses - now you can judge theirs! From the star with a 400-year-old sofa to another with a framed picture of Vinnie Jones (and is Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's wallpaper as loud as his suits?)

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 5, 2024
The findings include Sarah Beeny's 15th-century chair that she 'loves' (centre) and Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts's framed picture of football hardman Vinnie Jones. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's loud wallpaper (left) also features throughout his home, while Location, Location, Location host Phil Spencer showed off his countryside retreat (right). It comes after eyebrows were raised this week when Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud revealed his love of Ikea kitchens after installing one himself at his property. Here MailOnline looks at the homes of famous of TV design experts and lets you judge them.

Martin Roberts will risk speeding up his 'demise' after near death experience in a bid to help troubled children get their lives on track as they work on £500,000 renovation project

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 27, 2024
Martin Roberts says he's willing to take any risk in his pursuit of helping others after his near death experience when he underwent emergency heart surgery back in 2022. The television presenter and property expert, 60, was told he had 'a few hours to live' and underwent life-saving surgery after suffering from pericardial effusion, a build-up of fluid in the structure around the heart. Last year, he revealed his plans to bring a Welsh valleys community's heritage back to life by injecting £500,000 of his own money into a special project.

A Place in the Sun's Lucy Alexander, 54, reveals she nearly turned down the show after struggling with perimenopause: 'I have no qualms telling the crew I've got a hot flush!'

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 24, 2024
A Place in the Sun presenter Lucy Alexander has revealed she nearly turned down the gig because she is perimenopausal and has no qualms telling the all-male crew she's having a hot flush. The 54-year-old property expert confirmed last month she had landed a permanent role on A Place in the Sun and has been jetting off to various locations once a month to film the programme. The Homes Under the Hammer host said: 'I wasn't sure whether I should take the job at first. Being perimenopausal, I was worried about having hot flushes in a hot country.