Trevor McDonald - Other Work and Media Appearances

Other Work and Media Appearances

• McDonald presented the TV series Undercover Customs which created reconstructions of major HM Customs and Excise investigations in the UK
• Since their inception in 1995 until 2008, McDonald presented the National Television Awards. He was replaced as presenter for the 2010 event by X Factor host Dermot O'Leary
• On 21 April 2006, McDonald presented an episode of Have I Got News For You with a good degree of success; he delivered the autocue jokes, some of which were extremely risqué, in his usual sober newscaster manner, the juxtaposition of which prompted team captain Paul Merton, who usually maintains a straight face on the show, to laugh heartily in disbelief on numerous occasions. It was McDonald's first appearance in any capacity on the show since 1992
• McDonald is Chancellor of London South Bank University. He also has intimate ties with King's College School in Wimbledon, a London day school, where he is now a governor
• McDonald is the author of biographies of the cricketers Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd
• McDonald has worked as an editor of poetry anthologies, and his autobiography Fortunate Circumstances was published in 1993.
• Lenny Henry's comic character Trevor McDoughnut is a spoof of McDonald. McDonald once surprised Henry during a performance of "McDoughnut" on Tiswas by walking into the studio to sit with Henry. McDonald returned to Tiswas on two further occasions. First, a number of weeks after his original surprise appearance, he cropped up during a spoof edition of This Is Your Life to "reminisce" with Lenny Henry about the earlier event. The other appearance occurred during the Tiswas Reunited show (a reunion programme transmitted in June 2007) where McDonald joined Lenny on the sofa once again to look back at the old clips and comment on Henry's impersonation.
• McDonald performed live in Hyde Park in Summer 1996 with The Who, as the newsreader in the group's staging of their Quadrophenia
• In June 2007, McDonald hosted the new ITV version of This Is Your Life, Simon Cowell being the programme's "victim"
• In June 2007, McDonald began hosting the new ITV television series News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald
• In August 2010 McDonald conducted a live on-stage interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at Fairfield Halls in Croydon at an event entitled An Audience with Desmond Tutu
• A picture of McDonald was seen at the end of the video I Know Him So Well by Peter Kay and Susan Boyle for Comic Relief 2011.
• A clip from one of McDonald's news broadcasts was shown in the 2011 film The Iron Lady.