Shelagh Fogarty

Shelagh Fogarty (born 1966) is a Liverpool-born radio and television presenter and journalist. She currently hosts the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show with Nicky Campbell.

Early life

She is the youngest of seven children. Her Irish parents moved to England in the late 1950s. She went to the St John Bosco Grammar School (now called the Sir John Bosco High School) on "Stonedale Crescent" in Croxteth. She studied French, Spanish and Portuguese at Durham University, graduating in 1988, and spending a year out in Barcelona. Learning her trade, she worked as a BBC trainee at Radio Humberside, Radio Guernsey, Radio Bristol, Radio Sheffield and Radio Merseyside.

Media career

She joined Radio 4 in 1994, and went freelance in 1999.

Fogarty won the Sony Silver Award [ cite web | date = | title = 2007 Breakfast Show Award Winners | url = http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?category=The_Breakfast_Show_Award&year=2007 | format = HTML | publisher = Sony | accessdate = 2008-01-28 ] , in 2007 for the 5 Live Breakfast programme as Best News and Current Affairs Programme with Nicky Campbell.

In January 2008, she had a gun pointed at her and her film crew whilst filming a report for ITV's Tonight with Trevor MacDonald, in Croxteth where she was brought up. [ cite web | date = 2008-01-28 | title = Gun aimed at BBC radio presenter | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7212556.stm| format = HTML | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2008-01-28 ] She had been asked to return to the area to see how safe she felt walking around after dark.

Controversy

Shelagh Fogarty crossed picket lines during the 2005 BBC strike [ cite web | date = 2008-02-18 | title = Shelagh Fogarty - breakfast scab | url = http://libcom.org/library/shelagh-fogarty-breakfast-scab | format = HTML | publisher = libcom.org | accessdate = 2008-02-18 ] . At 7am on the day of the strike Fogarty came on live, without Nicky Campbell, without giving herself a name-check. Sports reporter Alistair Bruce-Ball responded "Thanks, Shelagh" as she handed over to him. The presenter broke ranks with many [ cite web | date = 2005-05-24 | title = BBC Stun | url = http://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/2005/05/24/bbc-stun-89520-15550408/ | format = HTML | publisher = Mirror | accessdate = 2008-02-19 ] news department colleagues.

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/presenters/fogarty_biog.shtml BBC bio]
* [http://www.therosemanorganisation.co.uk/LivePages/Clients/shelaghfogarty.htm Biography]