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| Mark Speight | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wolverhampton |
| Occupation | TV presenter |
| Website | SMart Website |
Mark Warwick Speight, born in Wolverhampton, England is a British TV presenter. He is best known for presenting the BBC children's art programme SMart.
Biography
Television
After an unremarkable school career, Speight achieved a degree in commercial and graphic art. He made his entry into television presenting after hearing about auditions for SMart while working on a set for a television production. He would go on to present SMart with various co-presenters from its start in 1994 to the present day. He achieved further fame while starring in BAFTA-nominated ITV Saturday morning show Scratchy and Co in the mid 1990s.
Speight has worked on numerous other shows, ranging from children's television to adult factual programmes. He hosted the series Beat the Cyborgs, SMarteenies and, for Discovery Kids, History Busters, which won a Royal Television Society Award, and has made appearances on Blue Peter, The Saturday Show, This Morning and The Heaven and Earth Show, and was also a contestant in ITV's Celebrity Wrestling.
Other work
Speight has regularly toured with Speight of the Art, art workshops he runs for children, and is involved in charity work, notably as President of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. During the Christmas period, he usually becomes involved in pantomime, and performed in Cinderella at the Watersmeet, Rickmansworth in December 2007.
Arrest
On Thursday January 3, 2008, Speight was arrested in connection with the death of his fiancée and former co-worker, Natasha Collins, whom he found dead in the bathroom of their London flat. He was released on bail the next day, until the first week of February.
The Metropolitan Police released the following statement: "Police were called at 13.20 on January 3 to reports of a sudden death of a woman at a residential address in St John's Wood. The woman, aged in her 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene. He has been bailed to return to a central London police station on a date in February."
The BBC have cancelled the Saturday showing of the new series of SMart, though a decision has not been taken about next further broadcasts.
External links
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- Mark Speight at TV.com
References
- "21 October 2007". SMart. 2007-10-21.
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- "RTS Awards - the winners". Manchester Evening News. M.E.N. media. 2003-11-17. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- Bishop, Tom (2005-04-14). "ITV wrestles for Saturday ratings". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- "Mark Speight". Billy Marsh Associates. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- "BBC Presenter Quizzed Over Body In Bath". Sky News. BSkyB. 2008-01-04. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- Sherwin, Adam (2008-01-05). "Children's TV presenter arrested on suspicion of his fiancee's murder". Times Online. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
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