Paul Hudson

:"See Paul Hudson (Australian rules footballer) for the Hawthorn and Footscray footballer."

Paul David Hudson (born 27 February, 1971, in Keighley, West Yorkshire) is a weather presenter for BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England.

Education

He went to the Brontë Middle School and Oakbank School on "Oakworth Road" in Keighley. He has a first-class degree in Geophysics and Planetary Physics from the University of Newcastle.

Career

He can be seen on both editions of the regional news programme Look North, from Leeds (serving North, West and South Yorkshire and the North Midlands) and Hull (serving East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and north Norfolk) where he has enjoyed regular sparring with presenter Peter Levy since the programme began in 2002. He returned to the BBC Yorkshire weather centre from the Met Office's old home of Bracknell in 1997 when Darren Bett left to present national forecasts.

He can also be heard on BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Lincolnshire and has appeared on BBC One's Morning Show.

In May 2006, Paul was elected honorary Mayor of Wetwang. This post was previously occupied by Richard Whiteley.
He enjoys sea fishing, playing golf (he used to play at Riddlesden Golf Club), cricket (he played for Ingrow St Johns in the Craven League). He supports Bradford City and was trapped in the stand that caught fire in the Bradford City disaster of 1985 [http://www.leedstoday.net/features?articleid=2711524] .

Paul got married in Huddersfield in July 2003 to Nicola ("née Shaw"), who also works on "Look North" as a reporter in Hull. He has two daughters, Eloise, born in April 2005, and Megan, born in November 2007.

Paul has written several books, published by [http://www.greatnorthernbooks.co.uk Great Northern]

You can now even cutout and keep your very own Pocket Paul Hudson via the [BBC Radio Lincolnshire] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2008/04/28/paul_hudson_drivetime_feature.shtml] website!

Love-hate relationship with Christa Ackroyd

A favourite trick is to refer to an item in the news with any unglamourous attributes being fervently compared to the newsreader in situ.
* After a story about an 11 foot python on the run in Sheffield on 27 June 2003, he said Christa was "big fat and slimy". This was featured in "The Sun".
* In December 2006, after Christa had come back from holiday with a perma-tan, he made sure she knew how orange she looked, comparing her to racing car air-spray paint.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthyorkslincs/content/articles/2006/09/27/paul_hudson_feature.shtml Look North biography]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/forecasters/paulhudson.shtml BBC Weather]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/images/2005/08/23/ln_cartoons_150_150x180.jpgCartoon of Paul and Peter by Mablethorpe's Darwin Lacey]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/sevenwonders/yorkshire/webchat.shtml Webchat with Paul about Yorkshire & Humber's Seven Wonders]
* [http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/search/display.var.812144.0.paul_is_now_mayor_of_wetwang.php Becoming Mayor of Wetwang]
* [http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/profile.php?page=paulhudson TV News Room]
* [http://thetvroom.com/video-5/04-BBC-LOOK-NORTH-HULL-02.rm Banter with Peter Levy about Paul's translucent shirt]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/weather/index.shtml The predicted weather.]
* [http://www.bntproductions.co.uk/html/Extreme-Weather-with-Paul-Hudson.htm Extreme Weather with Paul Hudson]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull/content/articles/2007/04/10/nicola_hudson_presenter.shtml Nicola Hudson]

Video clips

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42sVSmkw29g Christa tries to say he's cheap as chips (YouTube)]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/regions/west_yorkshire/video/95000/bb/95555_16x9_bb.ram Paul visits Broom in Rotherham to see the viewer who won him for a day in May 2007]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/england/realmedia/looknorthyorkslincs/weather?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1 Paul's latest weather forecast]