Matthew Fergus Arnold is a British journalist and television presenter who has worked for HTV,

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 ...

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, and the BBC.

Life

Born in

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, Northern Ireland, Arnold attended

Gresham's School Gresham's School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Independent school (United Kingdom), independent Day school, day and boarding school) in Holt, Norfolk, Holt, Norfolk, England, one of the top thirty International Bac ...

from 1975 to 1980. He then travelled around the world for a few years, before being commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1986 as an Aircrew Officer, flying in

Lynx helicopter The Westland Lynx is a British multi-purpose twin-engined military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil. Originally intended as a utility craft for both civil and naval usage, military interest led to t ...

s. After five years his time in the Navy came to an end, and in 1991 he was hired as a runner on the

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 ...

daytime game show '' Talk About'', before studying for a career in journalism at Highbury College in Hampshire. In 1993 Capital Radio gave Arnold a job with its show ''Flying Eye'', and for two years he advised Londoners on traffic problems. In 1995 Arnold was one of the first presenters on the new cable television channel L!VE TV, as sports and showbusiness reporter. In 1996 he joined HTV as a sports presenter, moving on to become an HTV news presenter. From there he joined

, then in 2003 became

's Northern Correspondent. GMTV transferred him to London in 2007, and he stayed with it until GMTV was ended by ITV in 2010. In 1999, Arnold and his wife were living in

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. After the end of GMTV they moved to Cambridgeshire. Arnold now runs a family hotel business in Suffolk, with it winning the hit Channel Four show ''

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'' in 2015.About Matt
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