FORMER BBC Watchdog presenter Lynn Faulds Wood sadly passed away on April 24, 2020, at the age of 72 after a stroke.
She and her husband John Stapleton became a dream team TV couple as they presented Watchdog together between 1985 and 1993.
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Who is John Stapleton and how old is he?
John Stapleton is an English journalist and broadcaster best known for his work presenting and reporting on ITV breakfast television including TV-am, GMTV and Daybreak.
He is also famous for presenting Watchdog for the BBC alongside his late wife Lynn Faulds Wood.
John was born in Oldham, Lancashire on 24 February 1946, this makes him 74.
He went to Diggle Primary School and Hulme Grammar School, Oldham and St John’s College of Further Education, Manchester where he studied his “A” levels.
Stapleton started working as a trainee reporter at the age of seventeen rather than going to university, on the Eccles and Patricroft Journal. He later worked at the Oldham Evening Chronicle for three years before moving to the Daily Sketch in Manchester and then in London.
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What TV shows has John Stapleton appeared on?
John’s first job in TV was as a researcher and script writer on This is Your Life.
He then worked as a reporter on the Thames TV regional news show Today from 1971 until 1975.
John joined BBC Nationwide in 1975 as a reporter, and then became one of the main hosts from 1977 until 1980.
From 1980 until 1983, he was reporting from trouble spots such as the Middle East and El Salvador as a correspondent on the BBC’s Panorama and Newsnight programmes.
From 1983 to 1985, he worked at TV-am as presenter of Good Morning Britain.
In 1986, John rejoined the BBC, where he presented the popular consumer programme Watchdog until 1993, alongside his late wife Lynn Faulds Wood.
In 1993, Stapleton returned to ITV to host live morning talk show The Time, The Place, and for four years he presented My Favourite Hymns.
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In 1998, he then joined ITV breakfast programme GMTV as a presenter of Newshour.
More recently in 2010, John joined Daybreak as their Special Correspondent and then onto Good Morning Britain where he remained until July 2015.
He still works in broadcasting, standing in for other radio presenters on LBC, appears on TV as a pundit for the BBC News Channel, and writes for newspapers.
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