Martin Popplewell
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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.
, from which he obtained a degree in zoology.
. 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.
. 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
.
, 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.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and newsreader
Newsreader
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who currently works freelance for Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
. He also regularly covers in the absence of other presenters.
Education
Popplewell was educated at University College LondonUniversity College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
, from which he obtained a degree in zoology.
Early life
Popplewell was born in and attended school in CambridgeCambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
. Before joining the BBC, Popplewell was a researcher for Alan Duncan
Alan Duncan
Alan James Carter Duncan is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton, and a Minister of State in the Department for International Development....
MP at the House of Commons. He also worked for U.S. Congressman Richard Gephardt in Washington DC
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
and as a volunteer on President Bill Clinton's
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
election campaign.
Journalism career
Popplewell started his career as a journalist on the BBC’s news trainee schemeBBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
. His break into TV came when he was just 15 years old he saw the film The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romance and adventure film directed by Randal Kleiser. The screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart was based on the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The film stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins...
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
The Sunday Times (UK)
The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
as one of the must watch programmes over Christmas.
Popplewell has presented the news on Five, BBC News and Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
. 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
LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station. It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial radio station when it went on air in October 1973...
.
Interests
Popplewell is an experienced scuba diver and has written travel features on the subject for "The Times".Personal life
Popplewell, who is gayGay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
, has helped a lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
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.