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Timothy Melton Willcox (born 28 May 1963 in
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) is a British journalist for
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. He presents news programmes on
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and the
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. He is probably most recognisable for presenting the BBC's live coverage from Chile during events surrounding the Copiapó mining accident and anchoring the BBC's live daytime coverage during the early days of the Cairo January
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Early life

Willcox was born on 28 May 1963. He grew up in
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, in south-west Somerset. He was educated at
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, an independent school in Somerset, and
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, Durham University where he studied Spanish.Profile – Tim Willcox
Newswatch, BBC News, 7 July 2006 Willcox was a member of the British Youth Orchestra, playing the trumpet. He had been awarded a Cambridge choral scholarship.


Career

Willcox started in newspaper journalism, working for Mirror Group Newspapers and Fleet Street News Agency). As a broadcast journalist, Willcox worked for ITN for many years as a presenter and correspondent. He was the network's Arts and Media Correspondent, and after joining the news team presented the network's live reports from New York City during the 11 September terrorist attacks. Willcox also presented the ITN Morning News in the 1990s, and was the first ITN journalist to break the news of the Paris car crash in 1997 that led to the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Since joining the BBC, Willcox has been an anchor on the BBC's news channels and used to present bulletins at weekends on
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. He served as regular Friday presenter on ''
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'' on BBC Four,
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and the
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. In September 2010, Willcox travelled to
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to report for BBC News on the attempts to rescue the miners trapped underground after the Copiapó mining accident. In October 2010 he did extensive live coverage of the operation to bring the trapped miners back to the surface, and interviewed Chilean President
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. He is to play himself in a film about the Copiapó mining accident and began filming in February 2014. In March 2011, Willcox played a significant role in reporting the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, reporting live for the
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from the disaster zone and then just a few weeks later reporting from Libya on the 2011 Libyan civil war. He now presents regular programmes on
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and the
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including The Papers (the nightly paper review) as well as news bulletins. More recently he has been found on the overnight slot on
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and the
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between 02:00 and 05:00 local UK time, as well as weekend afternoons (12:00 to 16:00).


Other work

Willcox has written, produced and presented a number of documentaries for
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and Channel 5. These include: *''Paul Burrell – The Butler's Story'' *''Di's Guys'' *''The Spencers'' *''After Diana – Remaking the Royals'' *''Diana: Her Life . BBC world news America with tim willcox'' In addition to his work as a journalist, Willcox has made cameo acting appearances in a number of television dramas and films. These include roles in ''
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'', '' State of Play'', ''
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'', '' 102 Dalmatians'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and the BAFTA winning documentary ''
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''.


Allegations of antisemitism

Willcox has twice been accused of
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for his on-air comments. On 8 November 2014, Willcox stated that the Labour Party would lose funding from Jewish sources because "a lot of these prominent Jewish faces will be very much against the mansion tax". The tax refers to a Labour proposal for an additional tax on properties worth $3.5 million or more. At a unity rally on 11 January 2015 after 17 people were killed in terrorist attacks in Paris, many of them Jews, Willcox, while interviewing a Jewish woman who was explaining that Jews live in fear in France, interrupted her saying that "Many, many, many, many critics though, of Israel’s policy would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well". This question was criticised by many including historian and BBC presenter
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, '' Jewish Chronicle'' editor Stephen Pollard and the
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as antisemitic for assigning collective responsibility of Israel's actions to all Jews. The woman was later identified as the daughter of
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survivors. Willcox apologised the next day on
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, saying his question had been "poorly phrased".


Personal life

Willcox was married to Sarah, and the couple had three children together. In November 2012, it was widely reported that Willcox was having an affair with BBC colleague Sophie Long. He has lived in the village of Wootton, West Oxfordshire, also known as Wootton by Woodstock, near the
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. In September 2019, Willcox was among three BBC employees who lost a tax avoidance case involving several hundred thousand pounds of taxes the payment of which the British government claimed had been wrongfully evaded.


References


External links

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