Julia George
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Julia George (née Botfield; born 1972), also known as Jules Botfield, is a reporter for the BBC Breakfast television news programme. She married in August 2006, and lives in south London.[1]
[edit] Education
Julia read English at the University of Cambridge, then did a diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Falmouth College of Arts.
[edit] BBC career
She joined the regional BBC London news programme on 1 October 2001 (when it began), then the BBC Breakfast programme in May 2002. She also reports for BBC News 24. Earlier, she worked on the Morning Show and Newsroom South East - the geographically-larger predecessor of BBC London. She occasionally stands in for Vanessa Feltz on her BBC London 94.9 morning show.
As well as being a reporter on BBC Breakfast, she has stood is as news-reader before a change in format, in May 2006; and occasionally as one of the main programme presenters. In 2004, she reported from Grenada after hurricane Ivan struck the island. [2] She also provided live reports from the Oscars in 2005 for Breakfast television. [3]
