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Bill Turnbull

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Gender Male
Death2 years ago
Date of birth January 25,1956
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Guildford
United Kingdom
Height 173 (cm)
Spouse Sarah McCombie
BooksThe Bad Beekeepers Club: How I Stumbled Into the Curious World of Bees - and Became (perhaps) a Better Person
ChildrenFlora Turnbull
Henry Turnbull
Will Turnbull
Movies/Shows Salvation
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End
Cottage Country
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile
The Right Way
DiedSuffolk
United Kingdom
Date of died August 31,2022
Education Eton College
OccupTelevision and radio presenter; journalist
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Date of Upd.
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Bill Turnbull Life story


William Robert Jolyon Turnbull was a television and radio presenter and journalist whose broadcasting career spanned over 4 decades. He began his career working for some radio stations including Radio Clyde and BBC Radio 4's Today.

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Bill Turnbull and Susanna Reid show on the Bbc Breakfast sofa in 2012

Bill Turnbull is back together with his former Bbc Breakfast co-presenter Susanna Reid , when he fills in for Piers Morgan on ITV's Good Morning Britain.

Turnbull sitting behind the GMB Desk for Three Days later this month.

He and Reid together A sofa from the year 2001, worked for the BBC until she left in the year 2014. He left two years later, and was in the year 2018.

He said his health is "OK at the moment," and in the last few months, which he "felt healthier than I have in a long time".

' What on earth am I?'

Turnbull is the co-host of Good Morning Britain on 24, 25 and 26 February, and said he was "in two minds" about the return to the early hours of the morning.

"On The One hand, it is great to be back live TV. The Other part of me thinks, 'What on earth am I?', to do with a vow, never Breakfast Television again!"

Asked how his presentation style differ on GMB from Morgan's, Turnbull quipped: "to Answer I would be on Thin Ice over deep Water !

"But I can say I have not has such strong opinions as Piers and I don' T agree with you as much as he likes. There are quite a few differences Between Us . "

Piers Morgan normally Good Morning Britain from Monday to Wednesday of every week

with reference to the Frank nature of The Show 's presenters, Turnbull said: "It goes against my personal grain really, as I am so used to spouting off, on air.

"I work in commercial radio, to a limited degree, I have more freedom. But who knows what could happen. It could be that the beast could be unleashed in the air. "

Reid said: "When Bill came in GMB, he joked about filling in for cob, and now he is! It will be nice to work alongside him again.

"I don't expect Bill presentation of a Breakfast show will be back, like a duck under Water is if the early Wake-up call to much of a shock. "

Turnbull made a documentary for Channel 4 last year, which followed him as he came, with his prostate-cancer diagnosis.

asked how his health is at the moment, he replied: "If you have cancer, it's always there. But at the moment I feel really good, most of the time.

"the Doctors tell you to think positive, but it is hard to do sometimes. I've been lucky, most of the time, 90% of the time I stay positive.

"There are two possibilities to have cancer, either it comes up on you or you get on top of it. I know in which direction I need to. "

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