Maddie Moate

{{short description|British television presenter and YouTube filmmaker}}

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| name = Maddie Moate

| image = Maddie Moate 2019 (2).png

| caption = Maddie Moate circa January 2019

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|07|26}}

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| nationality = British

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Television presenter
YouTuber
filmmaker
Singer

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| years_active = 2011–present

| known_for = Something Special (TV series)

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| alma_mater = Bristol University

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Madeleine Moate (born 26 July 1988){{cite web|last=Moate|first=Maddie|date=25 July 2014|title=Guys its my birthday tomorrow...#justsaying|url=https://twitter.com/maddiemoate/status/492717266518441984?lang=en}}{{Cite news|newspaper=Witney Gazette|date=24 July 2008|first=David|last=Horne|title=Girls head for top fringe festival|url=https://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/2408908.girls-head-for-top-fringe-festival/}}{{Cite web|title=Madeleine MOATE - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/snCDJhKKA3gxuEkYbSFTUJowEkI/appointments|access-date=2020-09-23|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|language=en}} is a British television presenter, podcaster, YouTuber and children's author{{cite news |title=CBeebies star Maddie Moate: 'Elephant poo is so magical!' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/27/maddie-moate-cbeebies-elephant-poo-lockdown |access-date=24 January 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=27 October 2021 |language=en}} best known for presenting the CBeebies series Something Special (TV series){{Cite web|last=Kent|first=Sara-Aisha|date=2020-02-05|title=CBeebies star Maddie Moate left in stitches after being sent rude drawing|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/cbeebies-star-maddie-moate-left-21434164|access-date=2020-09-23|website=mirror}} for which she was awarded the Best Presenter BAFTA at the Children's BAFTAs 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2017/childrens|title=Children's in 2017|website=awards.bafta.org|publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts|access-date=10 October 2018}} Moate is a science communicator; she studied theatre, film and television at Bristol University.{{cite web|url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/education/science-youtuber-maddie-moate-on-the-importance-of-being-curious-1-4737802|title=Science YouTuber Maddie Moate on the importance of being curious|first=Martin|last=George|date=17 October 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/56097-youtube-science-maddie-moate.html|title=YouTube's Maddie Moate Tells Kids: 'Get Curious!'|website=Live Science |date=15 September 2016 }}

Early life

Moate grew up in Witney, Oxfordshire, attending Henry Box School where she became Head Girl, and the Jill Stew School of Dance and Dramascope. She went on to study drama at the University of Bristol.{{Cite web|title=Girls head for top fringe festival|url=https://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/2408908.girls-head-for-top-fringe-festival/|access-date=2020-09-23|website=Witney Gazette|date=24 July 2008 |language=en}}

YouTube and online content

Moate developed and presented The App Show, an online comedy series on LadyGeek, with Nicola Hume from 2011 to 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9fyIWOzH0|title=Lady Geek TV – The App Show – Episode #1|last=ladygeektv|date=28 June 2010|via=YouTube}} The series, which attracted over 850,000 views, discussed everyday tech issues from a female perspective and was sponsored by Nokia.{{cite web|url=http://www.maddiemoate.com/online/lady-geek-tv/|title=Lady Geek TV – YouTube – Maddie Moate|date=7 April 2016|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-date=21 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121100455/http://www.maddiemoate.com/online/lady-geek-tv/|url-status=dead}}

In 2012, she presented Newsburst on O2 Guru TV. The series attracted more than four million views.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8F0043A9E92D7667|title=Technology – O2 Guru TV – YouTube|via=YouTube}} The same year, Moate presented Home of the Future for Channel 4.{{cite web|url=http://www.maddiemoate.com/online/home-of-the-future-with-e-on/|title=Home of the Future – Channel 4 – Maddie Moate|date=7 April 2016|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-date=21 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121100337/http://www.maddiemoate.com/online/home-of-the-future-with-e-on/|url-status=dead}} Between 2012 and 2013, Moate made three films for Samsung. The Samsung SSD Angels videos attracted 1.5 million views.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72794871C79ACDF0|title=Technology – Samsung SSD Angels – YouTube|via=YouTube}} Moate presented a series of films for Intel and Argos, for use in their Superhuman Academy and Smarten Up campaigns.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTOVK9CUawM|title=Choosing the right technology for study|last=Intel Superhuman Academy|date=7 September 2015|via=YouTube}} Moate presented the online videos for Sony Xperia Z5 in September 2015, whilst in Berlin.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-0HuXqgFU|title=The Xperia™ Z5, the world's best camera in a smartphone is put to the test by Maddie Moate in Berlin|last=Sony Xperia GB|date=19 September 2015|via=YouTube}}

Since 2014, Moate has been the lead presenter of BBC Earth Unplugged, a BBC produced channel on YouTube with over 480,000 subscribers.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwp5B-uDBy-fS4bDA0TEaw|title=BBC Earth Unplugged|via=YouTube}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmTANLv-GyXVsArE6zb4IEElGK-prSVm7|title=Maddie Presents 'Earth Unplugged' – YouTube|via=YouTube}} The series garnered the notice of BBC America, who compiled the highlights to make a one-off television programme, It's a Mad Mad Maddie World!.

In March 2015, she released a video The Real Me (Perioral Dermatitis) talking about her personal struggles with perioral dermatitis in the hope that "talking openly about it could actually be a big support to lots of other people".{{cite web|url=http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2015/03/vlogger-maddie-moate-shares-her-struggle-with-perioral-dermatitis.html|title=Vlogger Maddie Moate shares her struggle with Perioral Dermatitis – ShinyShiny|date=11 March 2015}} In September 2015, she released a follow-up video titled: Maddie Moate – Hydromol Ointment 3 in 1 Regime, explaining that she had been misdiagnosed and that she actually has (or had had) under-treated eczema.{{Citation|last=Hydromol|title=Maddie Moate – Hydromol Ointment 3-in-1 regime|date=2 September 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTTomc_lQ0g|accessdate=24 February 2018}}

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maddie Moate teamed up with her then-partner Greg Foot to create 'Let's go Live', a YouTube livestream with different themes each week. Each one is science based and includes suggestions for hands-on activities that could be done during the lockdown period. Themes included; Dino week, Brilliant bodies and Theme parks.

Also in 2020, Maddie became a presenter on Fully Charged, a Youtube channel exploring battery-electric vehicles and renewable energy.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A4ytljB-jo&list=PLzD0K2OhbVfE7MyhzFn58t1embqFoN_ZV|title=Beginners Guides – YouTube|website=YouTube |date=15 January 2020}}

In 2020 she also started a new podcast Maddie's Sound Explorers that won the Best Family Podcast in the British Podcast Awards 2021.{{cite web |title=2021 Winners |url=https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/2021/winners |website=British Podcast Awards |access-date=31 January 2022 |archive-date=15 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715041107/https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/2021/winners |url-status=dead }}

During 2022, Maddie hosted a YouTube Original Maddie's Urban Jungles{{Cite web |title=Maddie's Urban Jungles - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmTANLv-GyXW01kigItMO2gacK0cXEHhb |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=www.youtube.com}} as well Make Yourself At Home{{Cite web |title=Make Yourself At Home |url=https://magnolia.com/watch/show/7e0ffce8-78c6-4d83-888e-52639aa2a099/make-yourself-at-home/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=magnolia.com |language=en}} international series for Magnolia which can viewed on Discovery+, part of Warner Brothers. Discovery Inc.

Media

Moate has been the resident technology expert on BBC 5 Live Saturday Edition since 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.maddiemoate.com/radio/saturday-edition-on-bbc-5-live/|title=Saturday Edition – BBC 5 Live Radio – Maddie Moate|date=7 April 2016|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-date=21 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321203937/http://www.maddiemoate.com/radio/saturday-edition-on-bbc-5-live/|url-status=dead}} She frequently features on BBC 5 Live's Big Share,{{cite web|url=http://www.maddiemoate.com/radio/bbc-5-live-the-big-share/|title=The Big Share – BBC 5 Live Radio – Maddie Moate|date=7 April 2016|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-date=21 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121100305/http://www.maddiemoate.com/radio/bbc-5-live-the-big-share/|url-status=dead}} Good Morning Britain and BBC Breakfast.{{cite web|url=http://www.maddiemoate.com/tv/breakfast-television/|title=BBC Breakfast – BBC 1 – Maddie Moate|date=7 April 2016|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-date=21 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321122228/http://www.maddiemoate.com/tv/breakfast-television|url-status=dead}} Since 2016, Moate presents a factual series for CBeebies, entitled Maddie's Do You Know?, which has an average audience of 328,000.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/do-you-know|title=Do You Know? – CBeebies – BBC|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907123425/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/do-you-know|archivedate=7 September 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2017/05/cbeebies-commissions-second-series-of-do-you-know/|title=CBeebies commissions second series of Do You Know?|date=23 May 2017}} A second series was commissioned by CBeebies, produced by Sarah Trigg, and shown in 2018.

She won the BAFTA Children's Awards in 2017, in the category of presenter.{{cite web|url=http://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/winners-press-release-childrens-awards-2017|title=Winners Announced for the British Academy Children's Awards in 2017|website=bafta.org|date=26 November 2017}} A third and fourth series have since been released in 2019 and 2020 respectively.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6428102/|title = Do You Know? (TV Series 2016– )| website=IMDb }} In 2018, she joined the BBC team on Springwatch, hosting the "Springwatch Wild Academy" aimed at schools and children.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/XkwSbqnWqXvH4jQf2WpXvz/springwatch-wild-academy|title=Springwatch – Springwatch Wild Academy – BBC Two|publisher=BBC}} In June 2022 she appeared as guest presenter on an episode of The Gadget Show while Georgie Barrat was on maternity leave.

Starting in 2025, Moate was added as a presenter on CBeebies' sign-language series Something Special.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/something-special-new-presenters | title=Exciting Changes Coming to Something Special: We're All Friends }}

Writing

In September 2021 she released a book called ‘Stuff' with illustrations by Paul Boston. As with her YouTube and Television work, it is a book aimed at inspiring children, covering a range of topics all about 'stuff'.{{cite web |title=First children's book from CBeebies presenter Moate to Puffin {{!}} The Bookseller |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/moates-first-children-book-puffin-1233875 |website=www.thebookseller.com |access-date=6 October 2021}} In October 2023, Moate wrote 'A Very Curious Christmas', subtitled "Festive fun and seasonal science from around the world", the book is a collection of stories, facts, crafts and activities based on Christmas and winter traditions.{{Cite web |title=Maddie Moate on curiosity & Christmas |url=https://absolutely-education.co.uk/maddie-moate-on-curiosity-christmas/ |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=Absolutely Education UK |language=en-GB}}

Stage

From 11 December 2021 to 3 January 2022, Moate appeared in De Montfort Hall's production of Sleeping Beauty.{{Cite web |title=Sleeping Beauty - De Montfort Hall Review |url=https://www.beyondthecurtain.co.uk/2021/12/sleeping-beauty-de-montfort-hall-review.html |access-date=2024-12-28}}

From 2 December 2022 to 2 January 2023, she performed as Tinkerbell at York Theatre Royal's performance of Peter Pan.{{Cite web |last=Goodman |first=Amy |date=2022-11-23 |title=York Theatre Royal |url=https://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/latest/meet-maddie-moate/ |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=York Theatre Royal |language=en}}

From 8 to 31 December 2023, she performed as Tinkerbell at the Alban Arena in St Albans in The All New Adventures of Peter Pan – A Pantomime Sequel.{{Cite web |title=Christmas Cracker returns on Sunday 19 November {{!}} St Albans City and District Council |url=https://www.stalbans.gov.uk/news/christmas-cracker-returns-sunday-19-november |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=www.stalbans.gov.uk}}

In December 2024, Moate wrote, and starred in "A Very Curious Christmas", a Christmas-themed live science show at the Apollo Theatre{{Cite news |last=Winship |first=Lyndsey |date=2024-12-09 |title=Maddie Moate's Very Curious Christmas review – CBeebies star's scientific wonderland |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/dec/09/maddie-moates-very-curious-christmas-review-cbeebies-apollo-theatre |access-date=2024-12-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}