- Helen Fospero
Helen Fospero (born in 1966 in
Cleethorpes ) is an English television newsreader andJournalist .Biography
Born Helen Jane Morton, she grew up in
Grimsby ,North East Lincolnshire and attended [http://www.whitgift-school.co.uk Whitgift School] on "Crosland Road" in Grimsby. She left school just before her 18th birthday and started her career at the local weekly newpaper. A short time later she joined a national news agency, writing for tabloids and broadsheets inFleet Street .Her television career began when she was one of the first journalists to be recruited by Sky Television at the end of the 1980s. She was a home news editor when the channel launched in 1989, and took on many roles in her nine years there, including
reporter and presenter onSky News Sunrise and Sky News Live at Five. In 1997, she was poached by Breakfast Television stationGMTV , where she metJohn Stapleton , who acts as a mentor to her. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060109/ai_n15991223 My Mentor: Helen Fospero on John Stapleton: "He brings on people."] The Independent - January 9, 2006] Fospero was initially the Showbiz correspondent, then later became theUnited States correspondent, based inNew York .In November 2002, when the
BBC launched the new Yorkshire & Lincolnshire area, Fospero was appointed byGreg Dyke [ [http://www.dfmanagement.tv/Helen_Fospero.html Bio at DF Management] ] to front the new version of regional news magazine programme Look North along withPeter Levy .After her daughter was born, Fospero left "Look North" to find a position based in
London to be closer to her family, [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/02_february/18/fospero.shtml BBC press release about her "Look North" departure] BBC Press Dept] and after standing in onBBC London News , she joinedFive News .She is now a regular presenter for Five News and has also made a return to Sky.
Personal life
Fospero married an American
TV producer Carl in May 2003 in Oxfordshire. The couple live in London and have a daughter called Francesca, born February 2004.References
External links
* [http://www.helenfospero.tv Her website]
* [http://www.dfmanagement.tv/Helen_Fospero.html DF Management]
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