Personal Life
Sergeant married Mary Smithies on 4 January 1969; the couple have two children: Will Sergeant (a TV producer/director/writer) and Mike Sergeant (a BBC news reporter). He lives in Ealing, West London..
He was president of the Johnson Society in 2003. Interviewed by Sophie Lam in The Independent in June 2008 about his holiday memories, he stated: "I'm programmed not to be disappointed by holidays."
Read more about this topic: John Sergeant (journalist)
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“The historian must have ... some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?—In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?—Or is the use its life?”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)