Clive Myrie Biography
Clive Myrie is a BBC journalist, newsreader, and broadcaster from the United Kingdom. He was previously a BBC London World Affairs Correspondent.
How old is Clive Myrie? – Age
Clive is 56 years old as of 24 August 2020. He was born in 1964 in the County Borough of Bolton.
Clive Myrie Family
Myrie to my parents, who are Jamaican immigrants. His mother was a seamstress who subsequently worked for Mary Quant, while his father worked at a factory making car batteries. His parents are divorced, and his father moved back to Jamaica after retiring.
Clive Myrie Wife
Myrie is married to Catherine Myrie, an upholsterer and furniture restorer. Myrie claims that his wife gave him the strength and space to pursue his aspirations.
Clive Myrie Surgery – Illness
Myrie had neck surgery on our TV screens to prevent vaccination mayhem.
Clive Myrie Career
Myrie began her career at the BBC in 1987 as a trainee local radio reporter on the corporation’s graduate journalism program. In 1988, he worked as a correspondent for Radio Bristol before returning to the BBC following a year with Independent Radio News. He then worked for Points West, and subsequently for BBC Television and Radio News.
He joined the BBC as a foreign reporter in 1996 and has since reported from over 80 countries. He began as the BBC’s Tokyo reporter before moving on to become the Los Angeles correspondent from 1997 to 1999. In 2002, he was hired as a BBC Asia Correspondent, and from 2006 to 2007, he was based in Paris.
His career has included big topics like the impeachment of US President Bill Clinton, as well as wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. During the coalition forces’ March 2003 invasion of Iraq, Myrie was an embedded correspondent with 40 Commando Royal Marines, first on HMS Ocean and then during operations on the Al-Faw Peninsula.
He was hired a presenter on the BBC News Channel in April 2009, replacing the departed Chris Lowe, after previously served as Europe correspondent based in Brussels. Myrie has delivered the BBC Weekend News, as well as weekend versions of BBC News at Ten and BBC Breakfast on BBC One, since joining the BBC News team.He began providing daily bulletins on BBC One in June 2014. After meeting an ETA agent in Paris who handed her a tape of the organization’s leaders making the announcement, Myrie broke the story that ETA had announced a unilateral ceasefire in September 2010. Monday through Thursday, from 18:30 to midnight, he hosted the BBC News Channel. During the 2015 general election, he hosted Election Tonight at 19:30 and 21:30. Myrie has been focusing on BBC One network bulletins since 2019, with the evening shift provided by a group of relief presenters.
Following Fiona Bruce’s resignation from Question Time, Myrie began anchoring BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten on alternate Fridays with Sophie Raworth in 2019. In the absence of Huw Edwards, he now hosts BBC News at Ten on Fridays. Following John Humphrys’ decision to quit the BBC Two gameshow Mastermind and its BBC One spin-off program, Celebrity Mastermind, on March 22, 2021, it was announced that Myrie will become the next presenter of the BBC Two gameshow Mastermind and its BBC One spin-off show, Celebrity Mastermind. On August 23, 2021, Myrie made his debut as host. Myrie is also the host of a Jazz FM documentary series called The Definitive History of Jazz in Britain, which will air over ten weeks from April 4 to June 6, 2021.
Myrie covered the earthquake that struck Kathmandu on April 25, 2015, in great detail, including the rescue of two Nepali civilians who were discovered alive under two collapsed buildings on April 30, 2015. Myrie traveled to Bangladesh in October 2017 to report on the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Myrie has appeared on BBC World News on a number of occasions, including World News Today, World News America, and the 2016 US election. On April 15, 2016, he appeared as a guest on BBC One’s Have I Got News for You. Myrie participated as a panelist on Richard Osman’s House of Games gameshow in September 2017. He has also co-hosted the current affairs show Beyond 100 Days with Katty Kay.
Clive Myrie Awards
Myrie has received multiple nominations for his work, most notably for his participation in the Bafta-nominated BBC team responsible for coverage of the Mozambique floods in 2000. For his reporting on ethnic violence on the island of Borneo, he received the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents.
Staffordshire University bestowed an honorary doctorate on him in 2016. The University of Sussex conferred on him the title “Doctor of the University” in 2019. Myrie was named “Television Journalist of the Year” and “Network Presenter of the Year” in the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2021, receiving the honors “for his diverse, measured, and compelling manner.”