Bill Turnbull Obituaries Breakfast Tv

That background gave Turnbull, who has died aged 66 after prostate cancer, the authority to come out of the studio on big news and anchor the program from hot spots in Britain and abroad – from King’s Cross railway station in London after the 7/7 Bombings of 2005 in New Orleans and Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that same year. He was also in Washington for the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections and traveled to the UK during the 2010 general election. In 2008, after seven years of hosting weekend editions of Breakfast, he became the main weekday presenter, initially with Sian Williams as his main co-host. “I sit on the couch with a variety of delightful partners and we try to guide our audience through the day in as friendly and informative a way as possible,” he once said. His tenure coincided with the program moving from the BBC’s London studios to Salford in 2012. He presented the show for the last time four years later. Bill Turnbull and co-presenter Susanna Reid on the BBC Breakfast sofa in 2012, the year the show moved to Salford. Photo: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Born in Guildford, Surrey, to William, a barrister of Scottish descent working in the City of London, and Honor (nee Wicks), a teacher, Turnbull was educated at Eton and, for a time while studying politics at Edinburgh University, shared a flat with future Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He abandoned his degree but was determined to pursue journalism after publishing the student newspaper. So he trained at Cardiff University’s Center for Journalism, where he “discovered the joys of radio” and graduated in 1978. That year Turnbull joined Radio Clyde, Glasgow, as a trainee reporter and in 1980 moved to commercial London stations LBC and Capital Radio before moving to the US as a freelancer. This led him to produce a documentary in 1985 about problems facing the New York Underground for BBC Radio 4’s Actuality series. A year later, Turnbull became a reporter on the network’s Today programme. Bill Turnbull at the 2011 Conservative party conference in Manchester. His years of reporting experience gave him the authority to step out of the BBC Breakfast studio and broadcast live. Photo: Mark Makela/Corbis/Getty Images In 1988 he moved to BBC television on Breakfast Time (later renamed Breakfast News, then Breakfast) and two years later began contributing to its main national news programmes. During this time he reported on the Lockerbie disaster in 1988 and the Romanian revolution the following year. As a Washington correspondent for four years (1994-98), he covered the OJ Simpson murder trial, the Oklahoma City bombing and the Monica Lewinsky scandal — but he said a rain-soaked live report on a hurricane in Florida stuck with him more in the mind. He returned to Britain in 1998, becoming a presenter on the BBC’s newly formed News 24 channel and additionally, from 1999 to 2001, on Radio 5 Live’s weekend breakfast show. While he then presented the Friday to Sunday editions of Morning on television, he was a newsreader on BBC One’s 6pm slot. between 2003 and 2005. Breakfast made Turnbull a personality, which led to guest appearances on Children in Need, as a contestant on Through the Keyhole in 2008, and working with professional ballroom dancer Karen Hardy on Strictly Come Dancing in 2005-06. In 2011, he and Williams were seen interviewing Charles Dickens (played by Simon Callow) in the Doctor Who story The Wedding of River Song. He presented Songs of Praise (2012-14) and the quiz show Think Tank (2016) and narrated the children’s comedy show Class Dismissed (2016). In 2016, two months after leaving Breakfast, he began hosting his own weekend radio show on Classic FM. In 2017, shortly after taping an appearance on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, Turnbull was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bones in his legs, hips, pelvis and ribs. He said he had had aches and pains for about a year, but had put them down to “old age.” He then campaigned for men to seek early diagnosis of prostate cancer. He reunited with former Breakfast co-presenter Susanna Reid to present Good Morning Britain on ITV for three days in 2021 and presented his final Classic FM show later in the year. In 2016, two months after leaving BBC Breakfast, Bill Turnbull began hosting his own weekend radio show on Classic FM. Photo: Classic FM/PA Away from the TV studios, Turnbull was a fan of Wycombe Wanderers football club, commentating games online for many years and a keen beekeeper who sometimes auctioned honey for charity. “Beekeeping brings me so much pleasure,” he said. “There is a Zen-like calmness when you go to a colony, open a hive and the sun is shining. It puts you in a good mood and takes you out of yourself.” He dressed up in full beekeeper gear to run the London Marathon in 2005, appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in 2008 with a beekeeping special, wrote a book, The Bad Beekeepers Club (2010) and presented a Horizon documentary in 2013 called What’s Killing Our Bees? Turnbull is survived by his wife, Ceci (Sarah) McCobie, a BBC radio producer and presenter, whom he married in 1988, and their three children, Henry, Will and Flora. William Robert Jolyon Turnbull, journalist and television presenter, born 25 January 1956. died 31 August 2022

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That background gave Turnbull, who has died aged 66 after prostate cancer, the authority to come out of the studio on big news and anchor the program from hot spots in Britain and abroad – from King’s Cross railway station in London after the 7/7 Bombings of 2005 in New Orleans and Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that same year. He was also in Washington for the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections and traveled to the UK during the 2010 general election. In 2008, after seven years of hosting weekend editions of Breakfast, he became the main weekday presenter, initially with Sian Williams as his main co-host. “I sit on the couch with a variety of delightful partners and we try to guide our audience through the day in as friendly and informative a way as possible,” he once said. His tenure coincided with the program moving from the BBC’s London studios to Salford in 2012. He presented the show for the last time four years later. Bill Turnbull and co-presenter Susanna Reid on the BBC Breakfast sofa in 2012, the year the show moved to Salford. Photo: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Born in Guildford, Surrey, to William, a barrister of Scottish descent working in the City of London, and Honor (nee Wicks), a teacher, Turnbull was educated at Eton and, for a time while studying politics at Edinburgh University, shared a flat with future Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He abandoned his degree but was determined to pursue journalism after publishing the student newspaper. So he trained at Cardiff University’s Center for Journalism, where he “discovered the joys of radio” and graduated in 1978. That year Turnbull joined Radio Clyde, Glasgow, as a trainee reporter and in 1980 moved to commercial London stations LBC and Capital Radio before moving to the US as a freelancer. This led him to produce a documentary in 1985 about problems facing the New York Underground for BBC Radio 4’s Actuality series. A year later, Turnbull became a reporter on the network’s Today programme. Bill Turnbull at the 2011 Conservative party conference in Manchester. His years of reporting experience gave him the authority to step out of the BBC Breakfast studio and broadcast live. Photo: Mark Makela/Corbis/Getty Images In 1988 he moved to BBC television on Breakfast Time (later renamed Breakfast News, then Breakfast) and two years later began contributing to its main national news programmes. During this time he reported on the Lockerbie disaster in 1988 and the Romanian revolution the following year. As a Washington correspondent for four years (1994-98), he covered the OJ Simpson murder trial, the Oklahoma City bombing and the Monica Lewinsky scandal — but he said a rain-soaked live report on a hurricane in Florida stuck with him more in the mind. He returned to Britain in 1998, becoming a presenter on the BBC’s newly formed News 24 channel and additionally, from 1999 to 2001, on Radio 5 Live’s weekend breakfast show. While he then presented the Friday to Sunday editions of Morning on television, he was a newsreader on BBC One’s 6pm slot. between 2003 and 2005. Breakfast made Turnbull a personality, which led to guest appearances on Children in Need, as a contestant on Through the Keyhole in 2008, and working with professional ballroom dancer Karen Hardy on Strictly Come Dancing in 2005-06. In 2011, he and Williams were seen interviewing Charles Dickens (played by Simon Callow) in the Doctor Who story The Wedding of River Song. He presented Songs of Praise (2012-14) and the quiz show Think Tank (2016) and narrated the children’s comedy show Class Dismissed (2016). In 2016, two months after leaving Breakfast, he began hosting his own weekend radio show on Classic FM. In 2017, shortly after taping an appearance on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, Turnbull was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bones in his legs, hips, pelvis and ribs. He said he had had aches and pains for about a year, but had put them down to “old age.” He then campaigned for men to seek early diagnosis of prostate cancer. He reunited with former Breakfast co-presenter Susanna Reid to present Good Morning Britain on ITV for three days in 2021 and presented his final Classic FM show later in the year. In 2016, two months after leaving BBC Breakfast, Bill Turnbull began hosting his own weekend radio show on Classic FM. Photo: Classic FM/PA Away from the TV studios, Turnbull was a fan of Wycombe Wanderers football club, commentating games online for many years and a keen beekeeper who sometimes auctioned honey for charity. “Beekeeping brings me so much pleasure,” he said. “There is a Zen-like calmness when you go to a colony, open a hive and the sun is shining. It puts you in a good mood and takes you out of yourself.” He dressed up in full beekeeper gear to run the London Marathon in 2005, appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in 2008 with a beekeeping special, wrote a book, The Bad Beekeepers Club (2010) and presented a Horizon documentary in 2013 called What’s Killing Our Bees? Turnbull is survived by his wife, Ceci (Sarah) McCobie, a BBC radio producer and presenter, whom he married in 1988, and their three children, Henry, Will and Flora. William Robert Jolyon Turnbull, journalist and television presenter, born 25 January 1956. died 31 August 2022