Richard Madeley Education: Where Did Richard Madeley Go To School?
Richard Holt Madeley is an English journalist, television presenter, and writer. Alongside his wife Judy Finnigan, he presented This Morning and the chat show Richard & Judy. Madeley also hosted ITV’s weekly rugby league show RL Action until 1984, which increased his celebrity in the North of England. Here he met his future wife Judy…
Richard Holt Madeley is an English journalist, television presenter, and writer. Alongside his wife Judy Finnigan, he presented This Morning and the chat show Richard & Judy. Madeley also hosted ITV’s weekly rugby league show RL Action until 1984, which increased his celebrity in the North of England. Here he met his future wife Judy Finnigan, who was assigned to assist him on his first day.
Richard Madeley Education: Where Did Richard Madeley Go To School?
Madeley was born in Romford, Essex on 13 May 1956, He attended the Coopers’ Company School in Bow, now relocated to Upminster, Greater London. When he was about 14, he transferred to Shenfield High School in Brentwood. In 2020, during a debate on Good Morning Britain, Madeley revealed that for two years his father was physically abusive.
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. Madeley soon moved to nearby Border Television as a reporter on the Lookaround local news slot, before fronting its equivalent Calendar with Richard Whiteley on Yorkshire TV, and then on to Granada Reports in the early 1980s.
