Phil Gayle (born 6 April 1964 in Birmingham, England) is a newsreader, currently working as a freelance journalist. Former credits include The Big Breakfast and the ITV News Channel.
Phil Gayle's other TV credits include First Edition, Crimewatch Daily, Seven Days and That's Esther; as well as several LWT current affairs programmes including The Week and The London Programme.
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Before getting into TV, Phil Gayle was a DJ on various local radio stations. Between 1986 and 1988, Phil worked at BRMB Radio, Birmingham. Music DJ presenting various overnight, late night and early morning shows.
In 1988, he moved on to Signal Radio, Stoke. Phil presented a live weekday three-hour night time phone-in five nights per week. He also co-presented the Saturday afternoon sports programme which also included live interviews and music.
1995 saw Phil move to Rock FM, as a Preston Music DJ. He presented the Sunday evening, post Network Chart show alongside two weekend overnight shows.
Between 1995 and 1996 he presented a live current affairs and lifestyle phone-in on BBC Radio Newcastle. Here Phil broke several stories that were subsequently picked up by national press. The shows would typically feature one-on-one interviews, panel discussions, on-the-road reports and live audience debates.
Since then, Phil has done a variety of radio work in a one-off form or providing relief for existing presenters. Between 2000 and 2001 Phil was a relief presenter for various live two and three hour shows on LBC. In 2002 he would return as a relief presenter for Steve Allan on his live mid morning daily show as well as the LBC breakfast show.
In 1997, Phil joined Channel 4. Here he was employed as a newsreader on their light-entertainment morning show The Big Breakfast, a long-running early morning light entertainment show that enjoyed huge success for most of its run, suffering only when its most popular presenters left in 2001. This remains the role Gayle is arguably most famous for today. Gayle took over the role from Peter Smith and would fill this role until 2000 when he was succeeded by Jasmine Lowson, but would return to the show for its final broadcast in 2002. He would also go on to present other programmes for Channel 4 such as First Edition (1997–2002), a 30 minute current affairs programme aimed at school age children and the Channel 4 News, where he would act as the second presenter on the live, daily hour long news programme.
In 1998 he co-presented original broadcast pilot of the live, prime-time show Find A Fortune on ITV, surprising people with inheritances they did not know about, providing situation updates throughout the show and presenting recorded reports in the field.
2000 saw Phil begin work for the BBC where he would present several programmes. Between 2000 and 2001, Phil co-presented Crimewatch Daily on BBC1 - a daily live morning show on crime which included live studio and telephone interviews. In the same year, he also presented a segment on walking holidays in the Lake District on the BBC1 programme Holiday On A Shoestring.
In 2001, Gayle moved to rival broadcaster ITV and had a major role in the show That's Esther. Here he would be the on-the-road reporter for the half-hour consumer affairs and human-interest series. He would also act as the main reporter on anti-scalding campaign and interviews with ‘characters’ overcoming the odds during the show's run between 2001 and 2002.
Gayle also appeared in numerous LWT news-based programmes. He was the newsreader and reporter on the regional London news programmes London Today and London Tonight from 2002-2005, and hosted the monthly current affairs documentary series The London Programme. He also fronted another LWT current affairs programme, The Week.
In the same period, Phil also worked as a newsreader on the now defunct digital news station ITV News Channel.
Phil could previously be seen presenting on ITN programmes the ITV Morning News and London Today/Tonight.
Between 2005-2006, Gayle worked and travelled in Australia.
Phil is the brother of lad lit writer Mike Gayle and took part in the 2007 series of ITV's Dancing on Ice where he finished 10th, losing to Ulrika Jonsson in the week two 'skate off'.
Phil can now be found presenting the breakfast show from 7am on BBC Radio Oxford - and deputises for Moira Stuart as newsreader on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.
Phil is also the voice of easyJet Airline, pre-recorded in-flight announcements.
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