1. Tim Willcox is probably most recognisable for presenting the BBC's live coverage from Chile during events surrounding the Copiapo mining accident and anchoring the BBC's live daytime coverage during the early days of the Cairo January 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Tim Willcox grew up in Norton Fitzwarren, in south-west Somerset.
Tim Willcox was educated at Taunton School, an independent school in Somerset, and St Chad's College, Durham University where he studied Spanish.
Tim Willcox presented the ITN Morning News in the 1990s, and was the first ITN journalist to break the news of the Paris car crash in 1997 that led to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Since joining the BBC, Tim Willcox has been an anchor on the BBC's news channels and used to present bulletins at weekends on BBC One.
Tim Willcox served as regular Friday presenter on World News Today on BBC Four, BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.
In September 2010, Tim Willcox travelled to Chile to report for BBC News on the attempts to rescue the miners trapped underground after the Copiapo mining accident.
Tim Willcox is to play himself in a film about the Copiapo mining accident and began filming in February 2014.
In March 2011, Tim Willcox played a significant role in reporting the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, reporting live for the BBC from the disaster zone and then just a few weeks later reporting from Libya on the 2011 Libyan civil war.
Tim Willcox presented regular programmes on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel including the Papers as well as news bulletins.
Tim Willcox has written, produced and presented a number of documentaries for Channel 4 and Channel 5.
Tim Willcox has twice been accused of antisemitism for his on-air comments.
On 8 November 2014, Tim Willcox stated that the Labour Party would lose funding from Jewish sources because "a lot of these prominent Jewish faces will be very much against the mansion tax".
Tim Willcox apologised the next day on Twitter, saying his question had been "poorly phrased".
Tim Willcox was married to Sarah, and the couple had four children together.
In November 2012, it was widely reported that Tim Willcox was having an affair with BBC colleague Sophie Long.
Tim Willcox has lived in the village of Wootton, West Oxfordshire, known as Wootton by Woodstock, near the River Glyme.
In September 2019, Tim Willcox was among three BBC employees who lost a tax avoidance case involving several hundred thousand pounds of taxes the payment of which the British government claimed had been wrongfully evaded.