Sean Fletcher
{{Short description|British television presenter (born 1974)}}
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Sean Fletcher (born 20 April 1974){{cite web|url=http://presscentre.itvstatic.com/presscentre/sites/presscentre/files/Good%20Morning%20Britain%202014.pdf|title=Good Morning Britain|access-date = 9 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723172542/http://presscentre.itvstatic.com/presscentre/sites/presscentre/files/Good%20Morning%20Britain%202014.pdf|archive-date=23 July 2015}} is an American-English{{Cite web |last=Colderick |first=Stephanie |date=2022-02-01 |title=Sean Fletcher's marriage to TV boss and why he became fluent in Welsh in his 20s |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/itv-wonders-border-sean-fletchers-22949144 |access-date=2022-12-21 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}} journalist, and television presenter best known as a presenter on Good Morning Britain and on Countryfile.
Fletcher has also presented the ITV daytime game show Rebound (2015–2016) and the BBC Sunday morning talk show Sunday Morning Live (2017–present).
Early life and education
Born in New York City to a Zimbabwean-born mother and English father, he was brought up in Essex.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/profile.php?page=seanfletcher|title=Sean Fletcher Profile] TV Newsroom|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011110210/http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/profile.php?page=seanfletcher|archive-date=11 October 2007|df=dmy-all}}
Fletcher was educated at Felsted School, an independent school in the village of Felsted (near Great Dunmow) in Essex,{{Cite web |title=Old Felstedian Alumni Gallery: Charity & Creative Industries |url=https://www.felsted.org/ofs/alumni-gallery |access-date=2022-04-04 |website=www.felsted.org |language=en-US}} followed by King's College London, where he obtained a degree in Geography.
Career
After training as a music producer, Fletcher began his journalism career in Cardiff, producing packages for BBC Radio Wales. He then moved to London to work behind the scenes at Radio 5 Live. Several years later he began working on BBC 2W, the digital TV channel for Wales. He also presented and reported on sport for BBC Wales Today.
From 2005 until 2011, Fletcher presented sports bulletins on the rolling news channel BBC News, and has also presented sport on the BBC Weekend News and BBC Breakfast on BBC One as well as BBC World News. In March 2010, Fletcher began reporting on news stories for BBC Breakfast.
In October 2011, Fletcher left the BBC to join Sky Sports News, where he worked until his departure in early 2014.
On 3 March 2014, it was announced Fletcher would become a sports newsreader on the new ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain.{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26351796 | title = Susanna Reid quits BBC for ITV | date = 3 March 2014 | publisher = BBC News Online}} He first appeared on the programme on its opening day, 28 April 2014. He is now a regular news presenter on the programme.
In 2015, Fletcher presented Rebound, a ten-part daytime game show for ITV, airing in the 5 pm slot.{{cite web |url=http://www.talkbackthames.tv/news/story/read_summer-commissions-for-itv-daytime_item_100285.htm |title=Summer commissions for ITV Daytime – Fremantle Media UK – Story |access-date=2015-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723215800/http://www.talkbackthames.tv/news/story/read_summer-commissions-for-itv-daytime_item_100285.htm |archive-date=23 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }} A second series of the show was produced and aired in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-orders-second-series-rebound-hosted-sean-fletcher|title=ITV orders a second series of Rebound, hosted by Sean Fletcher|publisher=}} In September 2015, he appeared in an episode of All Star Mr & Mrs alongside his wife Luned.
Since October 2015, Fletcher has been an occasional reporter for Countryfile on BBC One.
Fletcher co-presented the BBC Two series Food Detectives alongside Tom Kerridge and Alice Roberts in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://digiguide.tv/programme-details/BBC+2/15+April+2016/18:30/The+Food+Detectives/Documentary/|title=The Food Detectives on BBC 2 at 7:30pm April 15th, 2016|first=GipsyMedia|last=Limited|website=digiguide.tv}} Since 2017, he has presented the Sunday morning BBC One programme Sunday Morning Live initially alongside Emma Barnett.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/25/sunday-morning-live|title=BBC – Sunday Morning Live – Media Centre|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} He has also been an occasional co-presenter of the BBC One Sunday programme Songs of Praise.
In September 2017, Fletcher replaced Matthew Wright as presenter of BBC's current affairs programme Inside Out London. In October 2017, he co-presented Britain's Classroom Heroes with Naga Munchetty on BBC Two.
Personal life
Fletcher speaks Welsh fluently,{{cite web|url=http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Good-Morning-Britain-s-Sean-Fletcher-quiz-Rebound/story-27594347-detail/story.html|title=Western Daily Press|access-date=17 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817123530/http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Good-Morning-Britain-s-Sean-Fletcher-quiz-Rebound/story-27594347-detail/story.html|archive-date=17 August 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} and is married to Luned Tonderai, a Welsh television producer and director.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/lunedtonderai|title=Luned Tonderai (@lunedtonderai) – Twitter|website=twitter.com}} The couple a daughter and son.{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/meet-the-team/about-sean-fletcher|title=Sean Fletcher|publisher=}}{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Sean |date=2024-04-26 |title=I'd just started as a presenter on GMB when my midlife crisis hit |url=https://inews.co.uk/opinion/sean-fletcher-gmb-presenter-midlife-crisis-3018028?srsltid=AfmBOopCNuJko1ZEhP-gc9oBk_5IYF4XJ4C9vCMpu_jDe8V0EZiElEQh |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=The i Paper |language=en-US}} Fletcher lives in Acton, London.{{Cite web |last=Al-Alas |first=Ruth Bloomfield, Rhanie |date=2023-06-02 |title=The battle for west London's skyline as locals clash with developers over towers |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/acton-regeneration-residents-clash-developers-ealing-council-skyscrapers-b1084518.html |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=The Standard |language=en}} He is a Christian,{{cite web |title=BBC One – Songs of Praise – Sean Fletcher |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4RYDrZmhXnz4pMfD3jGqM06/sean-fletcher |website=BBC |access-date=30 October 2022}} and supports Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
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In September 2015, Sean became an ambassador for the Beating Bowel Cancer charity.{{cite web|url=https://www.beatingbowelcancer.org/news/sep2015/good-morning-britain-presenter-announced-ambassador|title=News Hub – Beating Bowel Cancer|website=Beating Bowel Cancer|access-date=30 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001203930/https://www.beatingbowelcancer.org/news/sep2015/good-morning-britain-presenter-announced-ambassador|archive-date=1 October 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} He ran the 2015 and 2016 London Marathon to raise money for the charity.{{cite web|url=https://www.justgiving.com/MarathonSean/|title=Read Sean's story|last=JustGiving|website=www.justgiving.com}} In 2017, Fletcher ran the London Marathon for mental health charities Heads Together and Young Minds UK. In 2018 he ran his fourth London Marathon for Young Minds UK, for whom he is an ambassador. He is a trustee of Orchard, a charity that funds research into new treatments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and he regularly hosts webinars with leading figures in OCD treatment.
In 2016, he played for the 'Rest of the World' team on ITV's celebrity football match Soccer Aid, which supports UNICEF UK.
Filmography
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |
| 2005–2011
| BBC News | Sport presenter/correspondent | |
| 2008–2010
| Sport correspondent | |
| 2011–2014
| Reporter | |
| 2014–present
| Newsreader/relief presenter | |
| 2015–2016
| Rebound | rowspan="2" | Presenter | 2 series |
| 2015–present
| |
| 2016
| Food Detectives | rowspan="2" | Co-presenter | 1 series |
| 2017–present
| |
| 2017–present
| rowspan="2" | Presenter | |
| 2017–present
| |
| 2017–present
| rowspan="2" | Co-presenter | Annually |
| 2017
| |
| 2021
| Terfysg yn y Bae | rowspan="3" | Presenter | S4C series |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
| Wonders of the Border | ITV series{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week2/wonders-border|title=Wonders of the Border|website=itv.com/presscentre|access-date=21 January 2022}} |
| Britain's Secret War Babies
| Channel 4 documentary{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-w74jyv/britains-secret-war-babies/|title=Britain's Secret War Babies|website=radiotimes.come|access-date=13 August 2022}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=2975038|name=Sean Fletcher}}
- [http://www.seanfletcher.co.uk/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101004414/http://www.seanfletcher.co.uk/ |date=1 November 2020 }}
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Category:Alumni of King's College London
Category:American emigrants to England
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Category:Black British television personalities
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