| Helen Fospero | |
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| Born | Helen Jane Morton 28 November 1966 Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Newsreader |
| Spouse(s) | Carl Fospero |
| Notable credit(s) | Look North BBC London News Five News Sky News GMTV |
Helen Fospero (born 28 November 1966 in Cleethorpes) is an English television newsreader and journalist.
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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 newspaper. A short time later she joined a national news agency, writing for tabloids and broadsheets in Fleet Street.
Morton's 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 Sunrise and 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 and Sky News. Helen then gave birth to her second child in mid 2009. From September 2009 she spent a year with GMTV as a news presenter.
Since 18 June 2011 she has guest presented ITV Breakfast programmes Daybreak and Lorraine.[4]
Helen can now be heard on BBC Radio 5 Live as a newsreader. She has also been stand-in presenter on the station's Weekend Breakfast programme.
Fospero married an American TV producer Carl Fospero in May 2003 in Oxfordshire. The couple live in London and have a daughter called Francesca, born February 2004, and a son Jack born in early 2009.
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