Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell OBE was born on Nicholas Lackey, 10 April 1961 and is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist.
66 Facts About Nicky Campbell
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Nicky Campbell has worked in television and radio since 1981 and as a network presenter with BBC Radio since 1987.
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Nicky Campbell was born in Portobello, Edinburgh in April 1961 and was taken for adoption at just a few days old.
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Nicky Campbell's biological parents were both Irish, his unmarried mother Stella Lackey, was an Irish Protestant matron at a Dublin Hospital, she was single when Campbell was conceived during a secretive affair, she travelled from Ireland to Edinburgh where she gave birth to her son, his Belfast-born father Eugene Hughes, known as Joseph Leahy, was then a Catholic policeman 14 years Stella's junior and was formerly an Irish Republican.
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Nicky Campbell's adoptive mother, Sheila was a psychiatric social worker and his adoptive father, Frank a publisher of maps.
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Nicky Campbell was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school.
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Nicky Campbell studied history at the University of Aberdeen and graduated with a 2:1 degree.
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Nicky Campbell started working for Northsound Radio in Aberdeen while still at University there, making commercials and writing jingles.
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On one occasion the DJ presenting the late night pop show after him did not turn up and Nicky Campbell had to take the reins.
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Nicky Campbell then took over the Weekend Breakfast Show from Roger Scott and was used as a daytime "dep" for all the main daytime programmes.
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Nicky Campbell first presented the late night Saturday programme but was moved to the weekend early show.
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Nicky Campbell played a wide variety of music and hosted an eclectic selection of guests for long interviews.
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Nicky Campbell was regularly joined by Frankie Howerd in the last years of the comedian's life.
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Nicky Campbell left the network briefly in October 1994 to care for his sick wife.
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Nicky Campbell then presented the weekday Drivetime show, and in 1995, he took over the afternoon show.
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Nicky Campbell presented the mid-morning phone in show for 5 years before replacing Julian Worricker in the breakfast slot in January 2003, co-presenting initially with Victoria Derbyshire.
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However, the BBC later said that Nicky Campbell had initiated the meetings himself, and his public revelations about private negotiations prompted the wrath of the Director General Greg Dyke.
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Nicky Campbell started presenting a one hour at 9am phone-in 'Your Call' after the main show.
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Burden and Nicky Campbell presented together until 2021 when Nicky Campbell moved to a two-hour phone-in programme from ten to midday every weekday morning.
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Nicky Campbell has won many awards for his Radio Work.
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Nicky Campbell has won several Sony Awards including 5 Gold and in 2017 he and Rachel Burden won the Aria Award for 'Best Speech Presenter Breakfast.
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In 2014 Nicky Campbell was inducted into the Arqiva Radio Academy Hall of Fame which recognises the 'immense contribution that celebrated broadcasters and presenters have made to UK audio and radio over many years.
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From 1988 to 1997, Nicky Campbell was on the roster of regular presenters of Top of the Pops on BBC1.
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Nicky Campbell's co-presenters were first Angela Ekaette then Carol Smilie and for his final season Jenny Powell.
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Also in 1993 Nicky Campbell hosted Strictly Classified for Granada TV.
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Nicky Campbell made a film for the BBC2 documentary series Leviathan in 1998 entitled Braveheart, in which he looked at Edward I and William Wallace and explored the historical roots of Scottish antipathy, real or imagined, towards the English.
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On one debate Nicky Campbell was attacked live on camera by an irate participant in a debate on Women's Football.
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Nicky Campbell had reprimanded him for using a misogynistic term, threatening him with the 'red card'.
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Nicky Campbell presented one series with Richard Littlejohn and then all subsequent ones with Andrew Neil.
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Nicky Campbell remained there until 2009 when he and Julia Bradbury were replaced by Anne Robinson.
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In 2001, days after the September 11 attacks, Nicky Campbell went to New York to host a discussion on the aftermath for Panorama on BBC1 and that year he did some presenting on Newsnight,.
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In 2003 Nicky Campbell fronted David Blaine: The Event as Blaine began an endurance stunt inside a transparent Plexiglas box suspended on the south bank of the River Thames.
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In 2006, Nicky Campbell appeared in the singing show Just the Two of Us, with Beverley Knight.
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Nicky Campbell hosted The Big Questions, an ethical and religious debate show which ran on BBC1 on Sunday morning for 14 series between 2007 - 2021.
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Nicky Campbell and McCall present Long Lost Family - What Happened Next and 'Long Lost Family - Born without Trace' which helps foundlings abandoned as babies.
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In 2013 Nicky Campbell returned to BBC1 consumer journalism co-hosting Your Money Their Tricks with Rebecca Wilcox and Sian Williams.
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In 2014 Nicky Campbell made the documentary series Wanted - A Family of my Own for ITV.
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Nicky Campbell found out more about his her role in World War 2 and her experiences as a radar operator on D-Day.
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In 2021 Nicky Campbell presented Manhunt; The Raul Moat Story on ITV1.
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Nicky Campbell narrates the CBeebies show Our Story, he has read the bedtime story on CBeebies - Ping and Pong are Best Friends.
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From 2020 Nicky Campbell narrated Series 1,2 and 3 of Motorway Cops Catching Britains Speeders on Channel 5 and he voiced series 2 and 3 of Rogue Landlords Nightmare Tenants for the network.
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In July 2022 Nicky Campbell interviewed journalist Alex Renton on Different and revealed he had witnessed and experienced abuse at his school The Edinburgh Academy.
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Nicky Campbell wrote an article for the Mirror on the same day as the podcasts release.
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Nicky Campbell appeared in Michael Fenton Stevens podcast My Time Capsule in June 2021, on which talked about Charlie Brooker attacking on him in the press and television over a number of years including an expletive laden monologue in 2009 which put him in bed for two days.
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Nicky Campbell is a self-taught musician and plays piano, guitar and ukulele.
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In 2009, after meeting the actor Mark Moraghan, Nicky Campbell wrote a swing album for him, Moonlight's Back in Style, which was released by Linn Records.
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Nicky Campbell appeared on the album singing some backing vocals and the two of them performed the track 'Through it All' on Children in Need.
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In 2014 Nicky Campbell co-wrote the album Just Passing Through with Kate Robbins which was released in July of that year.
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Nicky Campbell composed the original theme music for The Big Questions, the BBC1 Sunday morning debate show which ran from 2007 to 2021.
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In 2017 Nicky Campbell was asked to write the song "Sacred Eyes" for the 40th anniversary of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and a video about the famous elephant orphanage.
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Nicky Campbell has written all the music for his podcast about dogs, One of the Family, and for the BBC Radio 5 Live podcast 'Different'.
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Nicky Campbell has written for a wide variety of journals and publications.
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Nicky Campbell has written a music column for the Scottish Sunday Mail and a regular sports column for the Guardian.
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Nicky Campbell described his emotional breakdown and late diagnosis of bipolar disorder and how his beloved Labrador Maxwell's unconditional love had helped him.
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Nicky Campbell has campaigned for and supported the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, is a patron of the Born Free Foundation and supports a number of animal and conservation charities including Animals Asia, The Born Free Foundation, and the Jane Goodall Institute.
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Nicky Campbell hosted their presentation in the main arena at Crufts in 2022.
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On December 4,2008, Nicky Campbell received an Honorary Doctorate from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
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Nicky Campbell was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Birthday Honours, for his services to children and adoption.
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Nicky Campbell met his first wife Linda Larnach, a divorcee eight years his senior with two sons whilst working at Northsound Radio in Aberdeen.
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Nicky Campbell reportedly took time out from his career during Larnach's illness.
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Nicky Campbell married his second wife the journalist Tina Ritchie in December 1997.
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In 2004, Nicky Campbell wrote Blue-Eyed Son -Story of an Adoption, his account of being adopted and tracing both his birth parents and his extended families in Ireland, on both sides of the religious divide.
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Nicky Campbell was a coffin bearer and spoke at her Dublin funeral.
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Nicky Campbell has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, his birth mother had the condition and has candidly discussed his depression.
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On 12 December 2019, Nicky Campbell announced via social media that she had died at the age of 96.
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Nicky Campbell doted on her grandchildren and my girls completely adored her.