Nicky Campbell Biography
Nicky Campbell is a Journalist and broadcaster from Scotland who since 1981, he has worked in radio and television. Since 1987, he has been a network presenter for BBC Radio.
How old is Nicky Campbell? – Age
He is 63 years old as of 10 April 1961 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His real name is Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell.
Nicky Campbell Family – Education
Both of his birth parents were Irish. Stella Lackey, his single mother, worked as an Irish Protestant matron in a Dublin hospital. When Campbell was born during a covert affair, she was unmarried. She gave birth to her son in Edinburgh after traveling there from Ireland. His father, Eugene Hughes, better known as Joseph Leahy, was born in Belfast, was fourteen years Stella’s junior, and had served in the Irish Republican Party. At the time, he was a Catholic police officer. Nicky’s half-sister, Esther, was born 18 months before Nicky, and was also adopted.
His adopted parents were Sheila, a mental social worker, and Frank, a map publisher. He attended the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school.He said in July 2022 that he watched and endured sexual and serious physical assault there, which had a “profound effect on [his] life”.He earned a 2:1 degree in history from the University of Aberdeen.
Nicky Campbell Wife – Children
Campbell met his first wife, Linda Larnach, a divorcee eight years his senior with two sons, while working for Northsound Radio in Aberdeen.They married on August 30, 1988, in the University of Aberdeen chapel, despite living in Finchley and taking time off in the Virgin Islands.Campbell married his second wife, journalist Tina Ritchie, on Saturday, December 13, 1997, in Chelsea.
Nicky Campbell Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1million.
Nicky Campbell BBC Radio
The Capital Radio program at the time included Roger Scott, Kenny Everett, Alan Freeman, Chris Tarrant and David ‘Youngster’ Jensen. It was while subbing for Tarrant and furthermore Jensen that the Head of Music at BBC Radio 1 Doreen Davis poached him from Capital and he enlisted in the public organization in October 1987.
In 1997, David Campbell joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a news and game moderator. He introduced the early in the day telephone in show for a very long time prior to supplanting Julian Worricker in the morning meal space in 2003. In 2001, Campbell professed to be the BBC’s decision for Jimmy Youthful and nitty gritty gatherings with Radio 2 regulator Greg Dyke. In any case, the BBC later guaranteed he started these gatherings himself. Campbell co-gave the program Shelagh Fogarty from 2004 to 2011, and was supplanted by Rachel Weight in May 2011. In 2021, Campbell moved to a two-hour telephone in program from nine to eleven each work day morning. His show has been communicated on the BBC News Channel, iPlayer, and BBC2.
His radio vocation additionally incorporates striking work for BBC Radio 2. In January 2019 Campbell introduced ‘Engelbert; 60 years of melody’, a melodic review and top to bottom meeting with Engelbert Humperdink. Following the progress of that program he talked with Francis Rossi of The norm for another Radio 2 exceptional – we Are right here and Here We Go which was communicated in May 2019. In August of that year, as a component of the Radio Two Beatles spring up station he introduced an extended meeting live from Nunnery Street studios with Giles Martin – ‘A Day in the Life – Nicky Campbell meets Giles Martin’.
In his time at BBC Radio Five Live, Campbell takes care of four Olympic Games, three Football World Cups and three European Titles and each broad political race and mandate starting around 1997. He has won many honors for his Radio Work. In 1999 he was casted a ballot Assortment Club Radio Character of the year. He has won a few Sony Grants incorporating 5 Gold and in 2017 he and Rachel Weight won the Aria Grant for ‘Best Discourse Moderator Breakfast.’
Nicky Campbell Podcasts
One of Family, a podcast by Campbell, was named the Best Animal Related Podcast by Dog Desk Radio in 2021. It has regularly peaked at number one in the British Apple Podcasts Pets and Animal ratings. Jeremy Paxman, Robbie Savage, Lorraine Kelly, Chris Packham, Sara Cox, Kevin Bridges, and Deborah Meaden have all been guests.
The BBC debuted a podcast in June 2022 called Different, in which people with unique experiences, opinions, or occupations are interviewed. Journalist Paul Salopek, broadcaster Iain Lee, and Scottish witch David MacMillan were among the guests on the show. Campbell disclosed in July 2022 that he had both witnessed and been the victim of abuse at The Edinburgh Academy. These allegations caused international headlines and heightened pressure on Scotland’s prosecution services to extradite one of the alleged South African abusers—named Edgar in the press and podcast—for extradition.
Numerous more men came forward following the podcast’s release, which prompted Operation Tree Frog, an investigation that was limited to the Edinburgh Academy. According to Renton, because of the exposure, former students at Edinburgh Academy had revealed 17 other staff members as sexual and physical abusers. In September 2022, Edgar, who currently resides in a retirement community close to Cape Town, was the subject of Campbell and Renton’s appearance on the South African Current Affairs show Carte Blanche. He is still defending himself against extradition.
During an interview with Michael Fenton Stevens for his podcast My Time Capsule in June 2021, Campbell talked about Charlie Brooker’s years-long attacks on him in the media and on television. According to Campbell, he has bipolar disorder type 2 and has experienced severe depression for as long as he can remember.
The best interview podcast title went to his show “Different” in the 2023 British Podcast Awards. His talk with Jenny Pearson, the daughter of the instructor who molested him sexually at the Edinburgh Academy, was the winning episode.
Nicky Campbell Books
Campbell has contributed to numerous magazines and journals with his writing. He used to write a regular sports piece for the Guardian and a music column for the Scottish Sunday Mail. Among many other publications, he has written for the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Spectator, New Statesman, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Observer, and Press Gazette.
He’s written two books. ‘Blue-Eyed Son – The Story of an Adoption’, his debut book, was published in 2004. He talked about finding his biological parents and meeting his father, Eugene Hughes, in 2002, as well as his birth mother, Stella Lackey, in 1989. Blue-Eyed Son was called “an intimate, extraordinary, and often tender memoir” in the Daily Mail review. “Astonishingly honest… one man’s set of raw, moving, and resonant truths,” was how the Scotsman described it. According to The Independent, it’s “an extraordinary story.”
In 2021, he published his second book, “One of the Family: Why A Dog Called Maxwell Changed My Life,” which became a Sunday Times bestseller. He talked about his complicated relationship with his biological mother in this, as well as the remorse he felt about having to find her birth parents. He talked about how his beloved Labrador Maxwell’s unwavering affection had supported him during his mental collapse and delayed bipolar disorder diagnosis. Andrew Billen called it “A remarkable autobiography” in The Times.
Eugene Hughes, a Dublin policeman from a Catholic family in South Armagh, was 21 years old when he had the brief affair with his birth mother, a nurse from a Protestant family in Dublin. In Blue-Eyed Son chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16, Campbell wrote about his birth father’s history at the time the book was published. His birth family on both sides provided assistance and contributions to the book. Tony Hughes, the biological father’s own cousin, was shot in Armagh in 1973 by the British Army.
Given his personal experience with his birth parents, Campbell delves deeply into the social and cultural taboos surrounding interfaith partnerships during the 1950s and 1960s in his book.
Nicky Campbell Movies and TV Shows
♦ 2001–2009 – Watchdog
♦ 2001 – Panorama
♦ 2001 – Newsnight
♦ 2002 – Your NHS
♦ 2003 – David Blaine; the Event
♦ 2004 – Now You’re Talking
♦ 2004 – Come and Have a Go If You Think You’re Smart Enough
♦ 2005 – The Last Word
♦ 2007 – The Rest of Your Life
♦ 2007 – Who Do You Think You Are?
♦ 2007–2021 – The Big Questions
♦ 2009 – The Battle of the Brains
♦ 2009–present – Long Lost Families
♦ 2013 – Your Money Their Tricks
♦ 2014 – Wanted: A Family of My Own
♦ 2015 – Perspectives: The Great American Love Song
♦ 2017 – Women at War
♦ 2018 – Born Without a Trace
♦ 2018 – Coronation Street’s DNA Secrets
♦ 2019-2020 – Operation Live
♦ 2021 – Manhunt: The Raul Moat Story
♦ 2023 – Secrets of the Bay City Rollers
♦ 2024 – The Masked Singer UK