1. Sophie Jane Raworth is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC.
25 Facts About Sophie Raworth
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Sophie Raworth is a senior newsreader and is one of the main presenters of BBC News.
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Sophie Raworth has been a television presenter for state occasions and has presented the BBC's Election Night coverage, alongside other presenters.
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Sophie Jane Raworth was born on 15 May 1968 in Redhill, Surrey to a florist mother and a businessman father.
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Sophie Raworth grew up in Twickenham and was privately educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, Putney High School and St Paul's Girls' School.
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Sophie Raworth joined the BBC in 1992 as a news reporter, first for Greater Manchester Radio and then, in April 1994, as BBC Regions correspondent in Brussels.
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Sophie Raworth moved to national television in 1997, to co-present the BBC's Breakfast News programme on BBC One, initially with Justin Webb, and in later years, with John Nicolson.
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Sophie Raworth then moved to the BBC Six O'Clock News in January 2003 which she presented alongside George Alagiah; she was a presenter on this bulletin until October 2005 when she went on maternity leave, and was replaced by Natasha Kaplinsky.
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Sophie Raworth took up the position in June 2006 after returning from maternity leave.
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In 2004, Sophie Raworth appeared on the BBC fashion show What Not to Wear, in which she was given a makeover by style advisors Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine.
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Sophie Raworth had a cameo role in the mid-200s as a newsreader in the last series of the BBC comedy series My Hero.
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Sophie Raworth returned on 25 August 2008, after the birth of her third child, with the presentation of the Bank Holiday editions of the BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.
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From early 2009, Sophie Raworth was the main relief presenter on the BBC News at Six and a regular relief presenter on the BBC News at Ten, often presenting when regular presenters Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce were not available.
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Sophie Raworth appeared in place of Andrew Marr on The Andrew Marr Show, and presented on the BBC News Channel.
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In 2013, Sophie Raworth had a cameo appearance at the start of the film A Good Day to Die Hard as herself.
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On 16 July 2013, Sophie Raworth was given an Award of Doctor of Arts honoris causa by City University London.
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Sophie Raworth presented Watchdog Daily in 2012 and Watchdog Test House in 2014 and 2015, before landing the role of main presenter on Watchdog in September 2015.
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In February 2016, Sophie Raworth replaced Kirsty Young as the main anchor of Crimewatch.
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In 2018, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force, Sophie Raworth presented a documentary called RAF 100: Into the Blue, where she talked about her grandfather, Captain Edwin Sophie Raworth, who was a pilot in the First World War.
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From 9 January 2022 to July 2022, Sophie Raworth was the interim presenter on BBC's Sunday Morning, temporarily replacing Andrew Marr as host.
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Sophie Raworth married estate agent Richard Winter on 13 December 2003, after he proposed to her on holiday on the Amalfi Coast on her 35th birthday.
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Sophie Raworth's younger sister, Kate Raworth is an English economist.
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Sophie Raworth discovered in the programme that she was not descended from noted piano maker Henry Isaac Robert Mott as the family had believed, but from his cousin, Samuel Mott, who was dismissed from the piano company and ended up taking his own life.
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On 17 April 2011, Sophie Raworth completed the London Marathon, despite collapsing two miles from the finish line.
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Sophie Raworth was forced to pull out of the 2024 United Kingdom general election debate.