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John Martin Stapleton (born 24 February 1946) is an English
journalist
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and
broadcaster. He is known for his work as a presenter and
reporter on
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
*Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of:
** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
breakfast television (''
TV-am
TV-am was a TV company that broadcast the ITV franchise for breakfast television in the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 until 31 December 1992. The station was the UK's first national operator of a commercial breakfast television franchis ...
'', ''
GMTV
GMTV (an acronym for Good Morning Television), now legally known as ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited, was the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 ...
'' and ''
Daybreak'') in addition to hosting ''
Nationwide'' and ''
Watchdog
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Animals
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* Portuguese Watch Dog, Cão de Castro Laboreiro, a dog breed
* Moscow Watchdog, a breed of dog that was bred in the Soviet ...
'' for the
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He won the
Royal Television Society's News Presenter of the Year award for 2003, and was married to the late presenter
Lynn Faulds Wood
Lynn Faulds Wood (25 March 1948 – 24 April 2020) was a Scottish television presenter and journalist. She co-presented the British television programme ''Watchdog'' with her husband John Stapleton.
Early life and career
Faulds Wood was b ...
.
Together they presented ''Watchdog'' between 1985 and 1993.
Early life
Stapleton was born in
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, wh ...
, Lancashire. His father Frank was secretary of the local co-operative and his mother, June was a part-time primary school teacher. Stapleton was educated at
Diggle Primary School and
Hulme Grammar School
Oldham Hulme Grammar School, formerly Hulme Grammar School, is a private grammar school in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
History
Oldham Grammar School was founded in 1611 by several charitable individuals including Laurence Chadeton, b ...
, Oldham and St John's College of Further Education,
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
where he did "A" levels. He did not go to university, but started working as a trainee reporter at the age of seventeen on the now defunct
Eccles and
Patricroft
Patricroft is a suburb near Eccles, Greater Manchester, England.
History
Patricroft may derive its name from 'Pear-tree croft', or more likely, 'Patrick's Croft'. In 1836, Scottish engineer James Nasmyth, in partnership with Holbrook Gaskell, bu ...
Journal. He was later indentured to the
Oldham Evening Chronicle
The ''Oldham Evening Chronicle'' was a daily newspaper published each weekday evening. It served the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. There were also four sister editions, called the ''Oldham Extra'', ''Saddleworth ...
for three years before moving onto the
Daily Sketch
The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.
It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers, but in 1925 Rothermere sold it to William and Gomer Berry ...
, first in Manchester and then London.
Career
Stapleton's career began on local newspapers in
North West England
North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of England, administrative counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of ...
, before becoming a staff reporter on the
Daily Sketch
The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.
It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers, but in 1925 Rothermere sold it to William and Gomer Berry ...
in
Fleet Street
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. His first job in television was as a researcher and script writer on ''
This Is Your Life'', presented at the time by
Eamonn Andrews
Eamonn Andrews, (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s. From 1960 to 1964 he chaired the Radio Éireann Authority (now the RTÉ A ...
.
He subsequently worked as a reporter on the Thames TV regional news magazine show ''Today'' from 1971 until 1975. In May 1972 he reported for the "Today" programme on the very last speedway meeting at the famous West Ham track. He joined the BBC ''
Nationwide'' programme in 1975 as a reporter, and then became one of the main presenters from 1977 until 1980. While on ''Nationwide'' he also carried out major investigations into council corruption in
South Wales
South Wales ( cy, De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards ...
and protection rackets in
Northern Ireland
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. He also compered a number of one-off light entertainment shows for the BBC, including the ''
Miss United Kingdom
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'' beauty pageant. From 1980 until 1983, he was a correspondent on the BBC's ''Panorama'' and ''Newsnight'' programmes, reporting from trouble spots such as the Middle East and
El Salvador
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before working for three months as ''Newsnight's'' correspondent in
Argentina
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during the
Falklands War
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. From 1983 to 1985, he worked at
TV-am
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as a reporter and as a presenter of ''
Good Morning Britain''. In 1986, John rejoined the
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, where he presented the