Life and Career
Madeley was born in Romford, Essex on 13 May 1956. His mother is Canadian. His sister, Liz Lawrence, is a teacher at The Anglo European School. He attended the Coopers' Company School in Bow, London, now relocated to Upminster, Essex.
Madeley began his media career in local newspapers, before moving to BBC Radio Carlisle at the age of 19 as a news producer and presenter. He soon moved to nearby Border Television as a reporter on the Lookaround local news slot,where he was known for his lovely hair, before fronting its equivalent Calendar with Richard Whiteley on bigger Yorkshire TV, and then on to Granada Reports in the early 1980s. Here he met Judy Finnigan who was assigned to assist him on his first day.
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