1. Clive Augustus Myrie was born on 25 August 1964 and is a British journalist, newsreader and presenter for the BBC.
42 Facts About Clive Myrie
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Clive Myrie is one of the channel's chief news presenters and correspondents, as well as its election results presenter.
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Clive Augustus Myrie was born on 25 August 1964 in Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, England, to Jamaican immigrant parents, who came to the United Kingdom in the 1960s.
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Clive Myrie's uncle Cecil was a munitions driver in the Royal Air Force during the war.
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Clive Myrie's mother was a seamstress who worked for Mary Quant, while his father Norris was a factory worker who made car batteries and carpets.
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Clive Myrie graduated from the University of Sussex with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1985.
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Clive Myrie joined the BBC in 1987 as a trainee local radio reporter, on the Corporation's graduate journalism programme.
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Clive Myrie then reported for Points West, and latterly BBC Television and Radio News.
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Clive Myrie initially became the BBC's Tokyo correspondent, and was then the Los Angeles correspondent from 1997 to 1999.
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Clive Myrie was appointed BBC Asia Correspondent in 2002 and was Paris correspondent from 2006 to 2007.
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Clive Myrie's career has encompassed major stories such as the impeachment of US President Bill Clinton, and wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Since joining BBC News, Clive Myrie has presented the BBC Weekend News and weekend editions of BBC News at Ten and BBC Breakfast, both on BBC One.
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In September 2010, Clive Myrie broke the story that ETA had declared a unilateral ceasefire after he met an ETA operative in Paris, who handed over a tape of the organisation's leaders making the declaration.
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Clive Myrie has presented the 18:30-to-midnight slot, Monday to Thursday, on the BBC News Channel.
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Since 2019, Clive Myrie has focused on BBC One network bulletins with the evening shift presented by a set of relief presenters, until it merged with BBC World News, but can still present and report on the channel during major breaking news or on location, such as during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine or as there election presenter.
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Clive Myrie reported extensively from Kathmandu on the earthquake that struck the city on 25 April 2015, including the rescues of two Nepali citizens who were found alive under two collapsed buildings on 30 April 2015.
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In October 2017, Clive Myrie visited Bangladesh to report on the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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Clive Myrie has occasionally presented on BBC World News, including World News Today, World News America and the 2016 US election.
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Clive Myrie appeared as a guest on BBC One's Have I Got News for You on 15 April 2016.
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In September 2017, Clive Myrie appeared as a panellist on Richard Osman's House of Games quiz show.
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Clive Myrie has presented with Katty Kay the current affairs programme Beyond 100 Days.
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In 2019, Clive Myrie began presenting the BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten on alternate Fridays with Sophie Raworth following the departure of Fiona Bruce to Question Time.
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On 22 March 2021, it was announced that Clive Myrie would become the new host of the flagship BBC Two quiz show Mastermind and its BBC One spin-off show, Celebrity Mastermind, following John Humphrys' decision to leave after 18 years.
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Clive Myrie hosted a documentary series on Jazz FM entitled The Definitive History of Jazz In Britain, broadcasting over ten weeks from 4 April to 6 June 2021.
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Clive Myrie presented part of the coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II as well as the Proclamation of accession of Charles III on BBC News and BBC World News.
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Clive Myrie presented Clive Myrie's Italian Road Trip in 2023.
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On 16 June 2023, Clive Myrie hosted Have I Got News for You, for the fourth time, and poked fun at the past seven days' new stories, particularly around former prime minister Boris Johnson.
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Clive Myrie later explained that the two shows had been just "too close" together.
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In July 2023, Clive Myrie became the Pro Chancellor of the University of Bolton.
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On 28 May 2024, Clive Myrie was announced as the host of the BBC's election night coverage for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, alongside Laura Kuenssberg.
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Clive Myrie was announced as the host for BBC's election night coverage for the 2024 United States presidential election.
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Clive Myrie is Chancellor of University of the Arts London, and attended his first graduation ceremony in that role at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 16 July 2024.
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Clive Myrie was heckled by a pro-Palestine student, to whom he later referred as an "idiot" and a "lunatic" while using expletives.
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Clive Myrie is married to Catherine Clive Myrie, an upholsterer and furniture restorer.
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Clive Myrie met his wife, who then worked in publishing, at the 1992 London launch of a book about Swiss cheeses.
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Clive Myrie enjoys going to the cinema and his favourite music genre is jazz, which he discovered at university.
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Clive Myrie's nephew is actor Jorden Clive Myrie, who appeared in the second series of BBC One drama Sherwood in 2024.
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Clive Myrie said he would not be taking part in any more paid external events for "the foreseeable future".
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Clive Myrie has won several nominations for his work, most significantly for his role in the BAFTA-nominated BBC team behind coverage of the Mozambique floods in 2000.
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Clive Myrie was awarded the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents for his reporting of ethnic violence on the island of Borneo.
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In July 2023, Clive Myrie received an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Edge Hill University.
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In November 2024, Clive Myrie was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland.