Frederick Wilson Talbot was born on 17 December 1949 and is a British former television presenter.
14 Facts About Fred Talbot
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Fred Talbot began working for Granada Television in 1982, with The Final Frontier, an educational science series networked on ITV as part of their children's programming strand.
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Fred Talbot continued as a regular reporter for Granada Reports and became a weatherman for the ITV's This Morning in October 1988.
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Until production of This Morning was moved from the Albert Dock, Liverpool, to London, Fred Talbot presented weather reports from a large floating map of the UK and Ireland in the dock.
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Fred Talbot was required to jump across a gap to go back and forth between Britain and the island of Ireland.
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Fred Talbot presented several regional feature series for ITV Granada, including Locks and Quays and Wainwright Country before returning to weather presenting with Granada Reports in February 2009.
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Fred Talbot did not return to his role at ITV Granada upon his return to the UK, but he was not suspended.
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Fred Talbot's trial began in January 2015, accused of abusing four former pupils at Altrincham Grammar School and a fifth schoolboy from the Newcastle area, during an annual holiday in the 1970s.
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Fred Talbot was told that he would serve at least two-and-a-half years in prison before being considered for release on licence.
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Fred Talbot appeared in a Scottish court on 11 March 2016, where he faced ten fresh charges of indecent assault dating from 1968 to 1981 and two charges of breach of the peace.
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Fred Talbot did not enter a plea during the hearing.
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In May 2017, Fred Talbot was convicted of seven charges of indecent assault against boys that took place on trips to Scotland while he was a teacher at Altrincham Grammar.
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In 1998, Fred Talbot was named Weatherman of the Year at the Annual International Weather Festival in Paris.
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In 2007, Fred Talbot was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Manchester Metropolitan University in recognition of bringing to a mass audience a better understanding of scientific and environmental issues.