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Madeleine Moate (born 26 July 1988) is a British television presenter, podcaster,
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and children's author best known for presenting the
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series ''
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'' for which she was awarded the Best Presenter BAFTA at the Children's BAFTAs 2017. Moate is a science communicator but studied theatre, film and television at
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. On 15 February 2018, she became engaged to children's TV science presenter Greg Foot.


Early life

Born in
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in July 1988, Moate grew up in
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, Oxfordshire, attending
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where she became Head Girl, and the Jill Stew School of Dance and Dramascope. She went on to study drama at the
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.


YouTube and online content

Moate developed and presented ''The App Show'', an online comedy series on LadyGeek, with Nicola Hume from 2011 to 2012. The series, which attracted over 850,000 views, discussed everyday tech issues from a female perspective and was sponsored by
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. In 2012, she presented ''Newsburst'' on ''O2 Guru TV''. The series attracted more than four million views. The same year, Moate presented ''Home of the Future'' for
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. Between 2012 and 2013, Moate made three films for
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. The Samsung SSD Angels videos attracted 1.5 million views. Moate presented a series of films for
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and
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, for use in their ''Superhuman Academy'' and ''Smarten Up'' campaigns. Moate presented the online videos for
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in September 2015, whilst in Berlin. Since 2014, Moate has been the lead presenter of ''BBC Earth Unplugged'', a
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produced channel on YouTube with over 480,000 subscribers. The series garnered the notice of
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, who compiled the highlights to make a one-off television programme, ''It's a Mad Mad Maddie World!''. In March 2015, she released a video ''The Real Me (Perioral Dermatitis)'' talking about her personal struggles with
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in the hope that "talking openly about it could actually be a big support to lots of other people". In September 2015, she released a follow up video titled: ''Maddie Moate – Hydromol Ointment 3 in 1 Regime'', explaining that she had been misdiagnosed and that she actually has (or had had) under-treated
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. At the beginning of the
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, Maddie Moate teamed up with her partner Greg Foot to create 'Let's go Live', a YouTube livestream with different themes each week. Each one is science based and includes suggestions for hands-on activities that could be done during the lockdown period. Themes included; Dino week, Brilliant bodies and Theme parks. Some special episodes are still scheduled for release over the Christmas period. Also in 2020, Maddie became a presenter on
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, a Youtube channel exploring battery-electric vehicles and renewable energy. In 2020 she also started a new podcast ''Maddie's Sound Explorers'' that won the ''Best Family Podcast'' in the British Podcast Awards 2021.


Media

Moate has been the resident technology expert on
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''Saturday Edition'' since 2014. She frequently features on BBC 5 Live's ''Big Share'', '' Good Morning Britain'' and ''
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''. Since 2016, Moate presents a factual series for
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, entitled ''
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'', which has an average audience of 328,000. A second series was commissioned by CBeebies, produced by Sarah Trigg, and shown in 2018. She won the BAFTA Children's Awards in 2017, in the category of presenter. A third and fourth series have since been released in 2019 and 2020 respectively. In 2018, she joined the BBC team on ''
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'', hosting the "Springwatch Wild Academy" aimed at schools and children. From 11 December 2021 to 3 January 2022, she appeared in
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's production of
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. In June 2022 she appeared as guest presenter on an episode of ''
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'' while
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was on maternity leave.


Writing

In September 2021 she released a book called ‘''Stuff' ''with illustrations by Paul Boston. As with her YouTube and Television work, it is a book aimed at inspiring children, covering a range of topics all about 'stuff'.'' ''


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