Chloe Madeley

Judy Finnigan

Finnigan was born in the Parish of Newton Heath Manchester, England on 16 May 1948. She attended the local school Briscoe Lane Primary School, whose alumni include Michael Atherton OBE, Michael Le Vell, Baron Morris of Manchester, Harold Evans and Paul Reed (Journalist). She then went on to attend Manchester High School for Girls, an independent school in the city, and later studied English and Drama at Bristol University. She joined Granada Television as a researcher in 1971, and in 1974 moved to Anglia TV in Norwich to become the first female reporter on the About Anglia news team. In 1980 she returned to Granada in Manchester, working on a range of programmes including Flying Start (with Anthony Wilson), Granada Reports and Scramble. She once owned a cat called Oliver.

Richard Madeley

Madeley was born in Romford, east London, England on 13 May 1956. He has a sister who works as a teacher at The Anglo European School. He attended the Coopers' Company School in Bow, London, now relocated to Upminster, but did not go to university. He began his media career in local newspapers in Essex, before moving to BBC Radio Carlisle at the age of 19 as a news producer and presenter. He soon moved to nearby Border Television as a reporter on the Lookaround local news slot, before fronting its equivalent Calendar with Richard Whiteley on the much bigger Yorkshire TV, and then on to Granada Reports for Granada from the early 1980s. Here he met Judy who, assigned to look after him on his first day, greeted him with the words "Hello, I'm your mummy". He often has stated that his hero whilst growing up was Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the industrial cotton spinning mill. In an interview, Madeley named Cuban leader Fidel Castro as the person he most despises.

Madeley hosted the popular news quiz Have I Got News For You on 14 December 2007.

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