Richard Madeley on being bullied and always 'feeling like an outsider'
Richard Madeley opens up about his hard experiences at school and his proudest moments as an interviewer.
He helps perk up millions of viewers as Good Morning Britain’s lead presenter, but Richard Madeley has revealed he was badly bullied at school and always “felt like an outsider”.
Speaking as the show approaches its tenth anniversary the original This Morning host put GMB’s enduring success down to a happy crew who all pull in the same direction.
He joined the ITV show after Piers Morgan walked out, and explained the importance for him of “being part of a team effort”.
“I had a rotten time when I was in school and was quite badly bullied. I always felt like a bit of an outsider,” the 67-year-old said.
“But ever since I started working as part of small teams in papers, then TV, it’s been one of the real satisfactions for me and I know most of the others on the show get that too from working on Good Morning Britain.” And he said of his co-presenters: “Whether it’s Susanna Reid or Kate Garraway or Ranvir Singh or Charlotte Hawkins, I am in awe of them.
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“They are fantastic journalists, kind of old school. They get a story, and they know how to tell it.”
His proudest moment was “terminating an interview with Gavin Williamson, then Defence Secretary, because he wouldn’t answer a question”.
He revealed: “After this, two civil servants came up to me in a restaurant and said, ‘We were watching your interview with our minister on Monday. We just wanted you to know we all gave a little cheer’.”