18 Facts About Justin Webb

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Justin Webb is a former BBC North America Editor and the main co-presenter of BBC One's Breakfast News programme.

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Woods was married and Justin Webb's mother, then Gloria Crocombe, was a secretary at the Daily Mirror and was divorced from her first husband at the time of the affair with Woods.

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Woods provided financially for Justin Webb but saw his son only once, when he was six months old.

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Justin Webb took the surname of his stepfather when his mother remarried in 1964.

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Justin Webb's cousin is Gregory Woods, whose mother, Charmian, was the elder sister of Justin Webb's mother, Gloria.

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Justin Webb was privately educated at the independent Sidcot School, a Quaker school in Somerset, and the London School of Economics, where he wrote articles for student newspaper The Beaver.

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Justin Webb joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1984 working in Northern Ireland for BBC Radio Ulster based in Belfast.

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Justin Webb then worked as a reporter for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, before becoming a foreign affairs correspondent based in London and covering news around the world.

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Justin Webb reported on the Gulf War and the war in Bosnia, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the first democratic elections in South Africa.

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Justin Webb then became a BBC News presenter based in London, and the main presenter on BBC One's Breakfast News programme from 1992 to 1997.

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In 2001, Justin Webb moved to the United States, as the BBC's chief Washington correspondent.

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Justin Webb raised eyebrows within the BBC in 2006 when, at a seminar on impartiality, he said the corporation was anti-American and treated the US with "scorn and derision", according it "no moral weight".

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Justin Webb has presented a Radio 4 series on anti-Americanism.

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Justin Webb replaced Matt Frei who moved to present the new World News America bulletin.

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Since November 2007, Justin Webb has maintained a regularly updated blog on the BBC website.

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Justin Webb married his long-term partner Sarah Gordon in the early 2000s.

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In 2012, Justin Webb joined son Sam at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, meeting Queen Camilla as she visited the facilities.

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Justin Webb later became a Royal Patron of the children's charity, JDRF, a charity which Webb supports on a regular basis.