Helen Fospero
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Helen Fospero (born in 1966 in Cleethorpes) is an English television newsreader and Journalist.
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[edit] Biography
Born Helen Jane Morton, she grew up in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire and attended Whitgift School on Crosland Road in Grimsby. She left school just before her 18th birthday and started her career at the local weekly newpaper. A short time later she joined a national news agency, writing for tabloids and broadsheets in Fleet Street.
Her television career began when she was one of the first journalists to be recruited by Sky Television at the end of the 1980s. She was a home news editor when the channel launched in 1989, and took on many roles in her nine years there, including reporter and presenter on Sky News Sunrise and Sky News Live at Five. In 1997, she was poached by Breakfast Television station GMTV, where she met John Stapleton, who acts as a mentor to her.[1] Fospero was initially the Showbiz correspondent, then later became the United States correspondent, based in New York.
In November 2002, when the BBC launched the new Yorkshire & Lincolnshire area, Fospero was appointed by Greg Dyke[2] to front the new version of regional news magazine programme Look North along with Peter Levy.
After her daughter was born, Fospero left Look North to find a position based in London to be closer to her family,[3] and after standing in on BBC London News, she joined Five News.
She is now a regular presenter for Five News and has also made a return to Sky.
[edit] Personal life
Fospero married an American TV producer Carl in May 2003 in Oxfordshire. The couple live in London and have a daughter called Francesca, born February 2004.
[edit] References
- ^ My Mentor: Helen Fospero on John Stapleton: "He brings on people." The Independent - January 9, 2006
- ^ Bio at DF Management
- ^ BBC press release about her Look North departure BBC Press Dept
