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Alex Beresford

Alex Beresford

English weather presenter


Alexander Beresford (born 17 October 1980) is an English weather presenter employed by ITV.[1]

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Early life

Beresford was born in Bristol, England. His mother is English and his father is Guyanese. He grew up in the Eastville area of Bristol and went to the St Thomas More RC School (now Fairfield High School) in Eastville.[2]

Career

Beresford primarily worked for The West Tonight on ITV West based in Bristol, originally as a teleprompter operator in August 2004, but later retrained as a weather presenter in 2005.[3]

He has also presented the national ITV Weather since 26 November 2007.

In February 2009 he transferred to The West Country Tonight on ITV West Country following the demise of ITV West.

He was set to join the ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak as its weather presenter on a permanent basis, this after he made a guest appearance, presenting on 16 March 2012. However, he quit for personal reasons, but still continued to present on a stand-in basis for Laura Tobin.[4] Daybreak was axed on 25 April 2014; it was replaced by a new show, Good Morning Britain where Beresford has continued to provide cover for Tobin. He appears both in the studio and on location at events elsewhere.[5]

Beginning on 30 April 2013, Beresford presented a three-part series for Channel 4 called The World's Weirdest Weather.[6] The following year, he hosted four-part Channel 4 series Britain's Most Extreme Weather which began airing on 28 April 2014.

In June 2015, January 2016, April 2019, June 2020 and October 2020 Beresford presented five episodes of ITV's Tonight programme.[7][8]

On 20 August 2020, Beresford made his debut as a guest presenter of ITV's Good Morning Britain.[9]

On 9 March 2021, the morning after the UK airing of the Oprah with Meghan and Harry interview, Piers Morgan walked off the Good Morning Britain show, following weather presenter Beresford's alternative narrative for Morgan's behaviour.[10][11]

"Piers Morgan's comments about the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain have attracted a record number of complaints to TV regulator Ofcom."[12]

From 6 September 2020, Beresford co-presents ITV's All Around Britain, a new weekly topical magazine series.[13][14]

In March 2022, Alex left his position at ITV West Country[15] to take up the newly-created role of live weather presenter on the extended ITV Evening News. Alex presents from the main studios in London, as well as occasionally reporting on the weather from other locations across the UK.

Dancing on Ice

Beresford took part in the tenth series of Dancing on Ice in 2018, partnered with Brianne Delcourt.[16] He was the eighth celebrity to be eliminated from the show following a skate off with Kem Cetinay and his partner Alex Murphy

Other projects

Beresford runs a Diversity School Tour Project where he visits inner-city schools to talk about media careers. He was also chosen for the national role model programme for young black men by Hazel Blears.[17]

Personal life

Beresford married Imogen McKay in Mallorca in 2022.[18] He has a son, born c.2010, from a previous marriage.[19]

Filmography

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References

  1. Charley, Will; Chipperfield, Daniel; Grubb, Sophie (9 March 2021). "Everything you need to know about Good Morning Britain's Alex Beresford". BristolLive. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  2. "Meet the team", ITV West Country (East), itv.com, 4 March 2012.
  3. Alex Beresford blog, Champion Talent.
  4. Will Charley and Daniel Chipperfield, "Everything you need to know about Good Morning Britain's Alex Beresford", Bristol Live, 22 July 2019.
  5. Wilkes, Neil. "Full Transcript: Piers Morgan's rant that wound up Alex". Media Mole. Retrieved 26 May 2021. © ITV
  6. Grubb, Sophie (9 March 2021). "Every word Alex Beresford said before Piers Morgan stormed off GMB set". BristolLive. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  7. "Piers Morgan's Meghan comments break Ofcom complaints record". BBC News. 17 March 2021. Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021. Piers Morgan's comments about the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain have attracted a record number of complaints to TV regulator Ofcom. Some 57,000 complaints have been made about the show's coverage of the Oprah Winfrey interview on 8 and 9 March. On 9 March, Morgan said he "didn't believe" a word Meghan had said. He left the ITV programme later that day. The total of 57,121 complaints is 12,600 more than those made over a race row on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007.
  8. "Bristol weatherman chosen as black role model", Archived 11 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Evening Post, 7 December 2008.
  9. Adejobi, Alicia (3 October 2022). "GMB's Alex Beresford marries Imogen McKay in Majorca with son, 12, as best man". Metro. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  10. Jane Lanvender and Emmeline Saunders, "Alex Beresford’s heartbreaking family tragedies before devastating split with his wife", Daily Mirror, 9 June 2020.

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