Craig Doyle
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| name = Craig Doyle
| caption = Doyle at the Isle of Man TT in 2009
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1970|12|17}}
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
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| nationality = Irish
| yearsactive = 1995–present
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| education = St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Diploma of Broadcast Journalism: London College of Printing
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| occupation = Television and radio presenter
| spouse = {{marriage|Poon Hutson Doyle|7 January 2002}}
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| credits = {{Plainlist|
- This Morning (2022—present)
- Tonight with Craig Doyle (2010)
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| children = 4
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Craig Doyle (born 17 December 1970) is an Irish television and radio presenter. To British viewers he is recognisable as working for the BBC and ITV and more recently TNT Sports; Irish viewers also know him as the host of RTÉ One chat show Tonight with Craig Doyle and RTÉ2's Craig Doyle Live. He is the main anchor on TNT Sports' coverage of Premiership and European Champions Cup rugby coverage and MotoGP motorcycle racing. Craig has also been a presenter on ITV's Rugby World Cup coverage. Since 2022, Doyle has been a relief presenter on ITV daytime series This Morning but was not selected as a permanent, full time presenter.
Early life
Doyle was born on 17 December 1970, and was raised in the Dublin suburb of Stillorgan.{{cite web |title=This is who I am |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/this-is-who-i-am-j5p8ld5zqqv |website=The Times |access-date=24 May 2023 |url-access=subscription|date=21 October 2012}} Educated in Blackrock College. He studied sociology and history at Maynooth, followed by the London College of Printing, where he earned a diploma in broadcast journalism.{{Cite web |title=Craig Doyle |url=https://www.nmplive.co.uk/craig-doyle |access-date=2 October 2022 |website=NMP Live |language=en}}
Broadcasting career
After graduation, Doyle worked on local radio with BBC Radio Suffolk based in Ipswich, before moving on to ITV to present the children's show Disney Club in 1995, following a chance meeting with a producer from the show at a visit to Alton Towers.{{cite podcast|url=https://soundcloud.com/an-irishman-abroad/craig-doyle-episode-179|accessdate=19 April 2017|authorlink=Jarlath Regan|author=Jarlath Regan|edition=179|title=Craig Doyle|work=An Irishman Abroad|publisher=SoundCloud|date=18 February 2017}}
Moving to London, he presented Tomorrow's World, Fasten Your Seatbelt and Innovation Nation, and spent six years hosting BBC One's Holiday. He had a live music show on London's Capital Radio every Saturday 8{{nbsp}}am{{snd}}11{{nbsp}}am.{{cite web |title=DJ Craig Doyle leaves Capital Radio |url=https://theguardian.com/media/2008/jan/09/commercialradio.radio |website=The Guardian |access-date=24 May 2023 |date=9 January 2008}}
Doyle was a member of the BBC Sport team from 2004, international rugby, including the Six Nations Championship, and triathlon.{{cite web |title=BBC gives Doyle a sporting chance |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jan/07/bbc.broadcasting |website=The Guardian |access-date=24 May 2023 |date=7 January 2004}} He supports London Irish. In 2004, he formed his own failed, production company. Its first production was The Craig Doyle Show, a failed Irish travel/celebrity programme running on RTÉ, and Doyle produced and presented Ireland's Richest.
Released early from his BBC contract, Doyle joined ITV Sport in February 2008, replacing Jim Rosenthal by hosting the UEFA Champions League highlights on ITV. He also presents ITV4's coverage of the Isle of Man TT. Doyle left Capital Radio at the end of 2008.
Doyle presented Ireland's Top Earners in 2008, later recalled by John Boland in the Irish Independent as a programme that came about "just when the country was sliding inexorably into economic ruin and in which Doyle, incorrectly, swooned over the wealth that had been amassed by Seán Quinn" [since bankrupt].{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/john-boland-actually-brennans-tour-wasnt-grand-2939778.html|title=Actually, Brennan's tour wasn't grand|date=19 November 2011|accessdate=19 November 2011|first=John|last=Boland|work=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media}}{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0116/quinns.html |title=Seán Quinn declared bankrupt at High Court|publisher=RTÉ News|date=16 January 2012|accessdate=16 January 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117210525/http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0116/quinns.html|archivedate=17 January 2012}}
In April 2010, Doyle returned to Irish TV to host his own chat show, the short lived failure Tonight with Craig Doyle on RTÉ One.[http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/tonight_with_craig_doyle.html "Tonight With Craig Doyle"]. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. In September 2010 he joined the team on ITV's Lorraine as an investigative reporter.{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2010/1008/425023-doylec/|accessdate=3 May 2022|title=Craig Doyle|publisher=RTÉ|date=8 October 2010}} Doyle presented Irish satirical programme The Panel up to 2011. He subsequently became the presenter for a new live chat show called The Social from November 2011, which returned to screens in 2012 as Craig Doyle Live.
He presented Now That's What You Called News for RTÉ over the Christmas at the end of 2011.{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/1128/rtechristmas.html|title=RTÉ announces Christmas highlights|date=28 November 2011|accessdate=28 November 2011|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann}}
Doyle currently works with BT Sport presenting coverage of Rugby Union since mid 2013.{{cite web|url=http://sport.bt.com/author/craig-doyle-31374087406700 |title=Author Bio – Craig Doyle |website=Sport.bt.com |accessdate=5 June 2017}} Doyle also presented BT Sport's coverage of MotoGP between 2015 and 2018.{{Cite web |last=Patterson |first=Simon |title=MotoGP: Doyle set to leave BT Sport coverage |url=https://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/motogp/2018/august/motogp-doyle-set-to-leave-bt-sport-coverage/ |access-date=2 October 2022 |website=MCN |language=en}}
Since November 2021, Doyle has been appearing on ITV show This Morning usually presenting the competitions and light entertainment segments. In May 2022 he appeared twice as a guest presenter on the show alongside Alison Hammond.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/craig-doyle-goes-down-storm-26851146|accessdate=3 May 2022|title=Craig Doyle goes down a storm with This Morning viewers as he makes presenting debut|publisher=Irish Mirror|date=2 May 2022}}{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Rebecca |date=27 May 2022 |title=This Morning viewers 'delighted' as Dermot O'Leary replaced 'Breath of fresh air' |url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1616842/this-morning-dermot-oleary-replacement-craig-doyle |access-date=27 May 2022 |website=Express.co.uk |language=en}} He has relief presented alongside Josie Gibson, Mollie King and Rochelle Humes during the school summer holidays on This Morning in 2022 and has since become a relief presenter on the show.{{cite web |title=This Morning's Craig Doyle 'emotional' as viewers call for him to get bigger role |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/craig-doyle-this-morning-ireland-26496901 |website=Chronicle Live |access-date=24 May 2023 |date=17 March 2023}}
In the week beginning 22 January 2024, Doyle appeared as a contestant on the BBC Two game show Richard Osman 's House of Games. He finished third, behind comedian Leo Reich and scientist and entrepreneur Anne-Marie Imafidon, but ahead of former Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson.{{Citation |title=Richard Osman's House of Games - Series 7: Week 15: Monday |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vp5h/richard-osmans-house-of-games-series-7-week-15-monday |access-date=26 January 2024 |language=en-GB}}
Other activities
Doyle presented the ESAT Young Scientist Exhibition in Dublin, sponsored by BT Ireland in 2005. He is prominent in the UK fronting the adverts of double-glazing company Everest Windows. In Ireland he serves as the face of the UPC cable service adverts. He was a face of Littlewoods Ireland.{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0915/morahanc.html|title=Morahan the new face of Littlewoods|date=15 September 2010|accessdate=15 September 2010|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann}}
Personal life
In January 2002, Doyle married his longtime girlfriend Poon.{{cite web | url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/brides/495332/craig-doyles-wife-who-is-this-morning-star-married-to/ | title=Craig Doyle's wife: Who is This Morning star married to? | date=13 June 2023 }} The couple have four children and live in County Wicklow.
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Category:Alumni of the London College of Printing
Category:Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists
Category:BT Sport presenters and reporters
Category:Irish rugby union commentators
Category:Irish sports broadcasters
Category:Irish television talk show hosts
Category:Broadcasters from Dublin (city)
Category:People educated at Blackrock College