Martin Popplewell

Martin Popplewell is a British journalist and newsreader who currently works freelance for Sky News. He also regularly covers in the absence of other presenters.

Education

Popplewell was educated at University College London, from which he obtained a degree in zoology.^[1]

Early life

Popplewell was born in and attended school in Cambridge.^[2][3] Before joining the BBC, Popplewell was a researcher for Alan Duncan MP at the House of Commons. He also worked for U.S. Congressman Richard Gephardt in Washington DC and as a volunteer on President Bill Clinton's election campaign.

Journalism career

Popplewell started his career as a journalist on the BBC’s news trainee scheme. His break into TV came when he was just 15 years old he saw the film The Blue Lagoon and decided he too wanted to live as a castaway on a completely uninhabited Pacific Island with just one woman for company. He returned to his teenage desert island to make a documentary The Real Castaway. The programme was transmitted on Boxing Day 2001 and won wide critical acclaim - being described by The Sunday Times as one of the must watch programmes over Christmas.

Popplewell has presented the news on Five, BBC News and Sky News. He also fronted the lifestyle magazine show Five News at Breakfast. The programme was a mix of showbiz news, lifestyle features and movie reviews. He has reported for ITN and worked as a political reporter for the BBC's On the Record.

Martin has also been heard covering various shows on LBC 97.3.

Interests

Popplewell is an experienced scuba diver and has written travel features on the subject for "The Times".

Personal life

Popplewell, who is gay, has helped a lesbian couple, lawyer Sarah Brooke and dentist Lucy Nichols, each conceive a child by acting as a sperm donor. A son and a daughter, Dillon and Anna, were born five months apart in 2006.^[4]

References

1. ^ Martin Popplewell Official website, URL visited 14 February 2007
2. ^ "Martin Popplewell". TV Newsroom. Johnnie Larkin, James Johnson, mdta. http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/q-and-a/qa-martin-popplewell/. Retrieved 20 September 2010. 
3. ^ Shears, Richard (2001). "Return of the teenage castaway; Forget TV's Survivor. Martin Popplewell did it first. He was the schoolboy who endured the horrors of life on a desert island but 'lost' two Girl Fridays. Now, 12 years after his great adventure, he's going back..". Solo Syndication Limited, Gale, Cengage Learning. Farlex, Inc.. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Return+of+the+teenage+castaway%3B+Forget+TV%27s+Survivor.+Martin...-a075165176. Retrieved 20 September 2010. 
4. ^ Gill, Charlotte; Born, Matt; Brogan, Benedict (22 August 2006). And here is the news... I've got two lesbians pregnant. The Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-401841/And-news--Ive-got-lesbians-pregnant.html. Retrieved 30 August 2008 

External links

• www.martinpopplewell.com

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