Michael Aspel
| Michael Aspel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael Terence Aspel 12 January 1933 Battersea, London, England |
| Occupation | TV presenter |
| Years active | 1957 - present |
| Spouse(s) | Dian Sessions (1957–61) (divorced) Ann Reed (1962–67) (divorced) Elizabeth Power (1977–94) (separated) |
| Partner(s) | Irene Clarke (1994–) |
Michael Terence Aspel,OBE (born 12 January 1933), is an English television presenter on programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel & Company, This is Your Life, Strange but True? and Antiques Roadshow.
Aspel was born in Battersea in London. During the Second World War he was evacuated from the area and spent nearly five years in Chard, Somerset. He attended Emanuel School after passing his eleven-plus in 1944 and served as a conscript of the National Service, in the ranks of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, from 1951 to 1953.
Aspel worked as a drainpipe-layer and gardener, and sold advertising space for the Western Mail newspaper in Cardiff. He worked as a teaboy at William Collins publishers in London and then entered National Service. He took up a job at the David Morgan department store in Cardiff until 1955, before working as newsreader for the BBC in Cardiff in 1957. He also acted in Cardiff, in a BBC Children's Hour serial "Counterspy", produced by BBC Wales and written by and starring John Darran. Aspel played "Rocky" Mountain, a Canadian. By the early sixties, he had become one of four regular newsreaders on BBC national television, along with Richard Baker, Robert Dougall and Corbet Woodall.
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