Ashley Blake Biography
Ashley Blake is a British television presenter and newsreader. He is a well-known personality in the English Midlands, having largely worked for the BBC, where his credits include reporting and presenting on Midlands Today, the region’s edition of Inside Out, and a brief appearance on the TV series Watchdog.
How old is Ashley Blake? – Age
He is 55 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1969 in Lozells, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Ashley Blake Family
Blake grew raised in Birmingham’s Lozells neighborhood with a single parent. He is mixed-race and the youngest of six children. After his mother died from cancer in 2000, he contributed funds for a cancer support organization.
Ashley Blake Partner – Son
Blake has one kid, Calam, with his former partner Sharon Blatchford.
Ashley Blake Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £760m.
Ashley Blake Convictions
In 2009, BBC News moderator David Blake was accused of having a hostile weapon, injuring with aim, and affray following an episode at his previous café. He showed up under the watchful eye of Sutton Coldfield Justices’ Court with a subsequent man, Steven Sproule, accused of attack and affray. The two men denied the charges and were conceded genuine bail forthcoming preliminary.
Blake’s co-litigant, Sproule, conceded to attack occasioning genuine substantial damage, yet Blake denied the charges and argued not blameworthy to endeavoring to distort the course of equity by tossing a 3-foot (1 m) long deck umbrella shaft into a close by garden focus. Blake hit the teen in the face with the post.
The jury resigned on 31 July 2009 preceding giving their decision on 3 August 2009. Blake was viewed as at legitimate fault for unlawful injuring and debasing the course of equity, however was gotten free from injuring with plan to hurt. He was remanded on bail and condemned to two years in jail. His allure against the sentence was dismissed by the Court of Allure. Blake was delivered under home time limitation in June 2010 in the wake of carrying out nine months of his punishment.
Blake was excused by the BBC on 14 August following an inside audit. His past lawbreaker record uncovered that he had been sentenced for robbery on six events and dealing with taken products in 1988. In a meeting with ITV’s Focal This evening, Blake uncovered that the BBC knew nothing about his past convictions as they were completely spent convictions when he joined the enterprise.
Blake avoided the media spotlight after his release from prison. In March 2011, he pleaded guilty to alcohol driving at Sutton Coldfield Magistrates’ Court. When caught on his BMW motorcycle on January 10th, the morning after a night out, he was discovered to be over the limit and was prohibited from driving for a year, as well as sentenced to pay £220 in fines and court expenses.
Ashley Blake Career
Blake has had a vocation “from driving and leasing vehicles and trucks to working with youthful wrongdoers under the watchful eye of social administrations in Birmingham.” In the wake of expenditure very nearly three years as an airline steward for Britannia Aviation routes, trailed by a postgraduate certificate in news-casting, Blake began working in Liverpool for L!VE television, prior to moving to its sister station in Birmingham (UK).
In 2001, he moved to London where he functioned as a journalist on Guard dog as well as both BBC London News and ITV’s London This evening. Blake created different occasion reports and afterward chipped away at London Weekend TV’s Fantasy Ticket program. He had a brief time of administration as a moderator on Public television for BBC Breakfast, before he got back to his home city to turn into a moderator and correspondent on the BBC’s Midlands Today. During his time at Midlands Today, Blake functioned as an ordinary journalist, while likewise introducing the Friday Night Late News Notice and the week after week version of Back to front for the locale.
Blake likewise consistently filled in for Scratch Owen as moderator of the fundamental version of Midlands Today, and had sometimes introduced the BBC Breakfast releases as well as introducing the Midlands territorial sections of the BBC’s yearly Youngsters in Need fundraiser with Shefali Oza and Sarah Falkland. Blake introduced his last release of Midlands Today on 23 January 2009, preceding being suspended following an occurrence at the New Oscott eatery, The Spot 2 B, which he co-claimed with his accomplice, Jessica Hayes, from 2003 until February 2009. This occurrence in the long run brought about him being sacked by the BBC.
In 2007, he was granted a privileged doctorate by Staffordshire College for his commitments to TV reporting. On 20 September 2016 Ashley got back to the television screen as a moderator on the (Midlands) local version of ‘Back to front’, with a report on Croome Park and Capacity Earthy colored’s nursery plan.
On 26 September 2016 Blake highlighted in a nearby paper report, in which he proclaimed his conviction was ‘spent’ and the BBC made sense of he had been utilized ‘As a consultant, he is qualified for try out thoughts and deal his administrations as a moderator or columnist, and we felt this section inside Back to front was ideal for him on this event.’
Blake has additionally showed up in different Network programs and movies including Nativity! (2009) and The Growling (2018).