Mike Morris

Mike was born in Harrow, Middlesex in June 1946. Educated at St Paul's School, London, he gained a BA in American and English Literature at Manchester University before starting his career in journalism with the Surrey Comet in 1969. He then joined AAP Reuters, a Sydney-based news agency, as bulletins editor. In 1974 he moved to United Newspapers as a sports reporter, then sports editor. Mike joined Thames TV as a sub-editor and reporter in 1979, before joining TV-am in 1983 at its launch as a sports reporter/presenter and then presenter of the Saturday edition of Good Morning Britain. He became anchorman of GMB in 1987. After TV-am, Mike went on to become regular presenter of Yorkshire TV's news magazine programme "Calendar".