{{Short description|British television presenter (born 1974)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Sean Fletcher | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|4|20|df=y}} | birth_place = [[New York, New York]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = [[Felsted School]] | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | [[King’s College London]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) | [[Cardiff University]] ([[PgDip]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/bore-da-sean-meet-first-7038571|title = Bore da Sean! The first black, Welsh-speaking presenter makes breakfast TV debut|website=Wales Online|first=Abbie |last=Wightwick|date = 27 April 2014}}</ref> }} | occupation = [[Journalist]], [[News presenter|presenter]], [[News presenter|newsreader]] | alias = | title = | family = | spouse = {{marriage|Luned Tonderai|1999}} | domesticpartner = | children = 2 | relatives = | television = | employer = [[BBC]] (2005–present) <br /> [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] (2014–2022) <br /> [[S4C]] (2021) | credits = ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'' (2014–2022) <br /> ''[[Countryfile]] '' (2015–present) }}

'''Sean Fletcher''' (born 20 April 1974)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://presscentre.itvstatic.com/presscentre/sites/presscentre/files/Good%20Morning%20Britain%202014.pdf|title=Good Morning Britain|access-date = 9 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723172542/http://presscentre.itvstatic.com/presscentre/sites/presscentre/files/Good%20Morning%20Britain%202014.pdf|archive-date=23 July 2015}}</ref> is an American-English<ref>{{Cite web |last=Colderick |first=Stephanie |date=2022-02-01 |title=Sean Fletcher's marriage to TV boss and why he became fluent in Welsh in his 20s |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/itv-wonders-border-sean-fletchers-22949144 |access-date=2022-12-21 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}}</ref> journalist, and television presenter best known as a presenter on ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'' and on ''[[Countryfile]]''.

Fletcher has also presented the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] daytime game show ''[[Rebound (game show)|Rebound]]'' (2015–2016) and the [[BBC One|BBC]] Sunday morning talk show ''[[Sunday Morning Live (British TV programme)|Sunday Morning Live]]'' (2017–present).

==Early life and education== Born in [[New York City]] to a [[Zimbabwe]]an-born mother and [[English people|English]] father, he was brought up in [[Essex]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/profile.php?page=seanfletcher|title=Sean Fletcher Profile] TV Newsroom|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011110210/http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/profile.php?page=seanfletcher|archive-date=11 October 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Fletcher was educated at [[Felsted School]], an [[independent school]] in the village of [[Felsted]] (near [[Great Dunmow]]) in Essex,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Old Felstedian Alumni Gallery: Charity & Creative Industries |url=https://www.felsted.org/ofs/alumni-gallery |access-date=2022-04-04 |website=www.felsted.org |language=en-US}}</ref> followed by [[King's College London]], where he obtained a degree in [[Geography]].

==Career== After training as a music producer, Fletcher began his journalism career in [[Cardiff]], producing packages for [[BBC Radio Wales]]. He then moved to [[London]] to work behind the scenes at [[BBC Radio 5 Live]]. Several years later he began working on [[BBC 2W]], the digital TV channel for Wales. He also presented and reported on sport for [[BBC Wales Today]].

From 2005 until 2011, Fletcher presented sports bulletins on the rolling news channel [[BBC News (British TV channel)|BBC News]], and has also presented sport on the ''[[BBC Weekend News]]'' and ''[[BBC Breakfast]]'' on [[BBC One]] as well as [[BBC World News]]. In March 2010, Fletcher began reporting on news stories for ''BBC Breakfast''.

In October 2011, Fletcher left the [[BBC]] to join [[Sky Sports News]], where he worked until his departure in early 2014.

On 3 March 2014, it was announced Fletcher would become a sports newsreader on the new [[ITV Breakfast]] programme ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]''.<ref name=bbc_20140303>{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26351796 | title = Susanna Reid quits BBC for ITV | date = 3 March 2014 | publisher = [[BBC News Online]]}}</ref> He first appeared on the programme on its opening day, 28 April 2014. He is now a regular news presenter on the programme.

In 2015, Fletcher presented ''[[Rebound (game show)|Rebound]]'', a ten-part daytime game show for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], airing in the 5&nbsp;pm slot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talkbackthames.tv/news/story/read_summer-commissions-for-itv-daytime_item_100285.htm |title=Summer commissions for ITV Daytime – Fremantle Media UK – Story |access-date=2015-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723215800/http://www.talkbackthames.tv/news/story/read_summer-commissions-for-itv-daytime_item_100285.htm |archive-date=23 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> A second series of the show was produced and aired in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-orders-second-series-rebound-hosted-sean-fletcher|title=ITV orders a second series of Rebound, hosted by Sean Fletcher|publisher=}}</ref> In September 2015, he appeared in an episode of ''[[All Star Mr & Mrs]]'' alongside his wife Luned.

Since October 2015, Fletcher has been an occasional reporter for ''[[Countryfile]]'' on [[BBC One]].

Fletcher co-presented the [[BBC Two]] series ''Food Detectives'' alongside [[Tom Kerridge]] and [[Alice Roberts]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digiguide.tv/programme-details/BBC+2/15+April+2016/18:30/The+Food+Detectives/Documentary/|title=The Food Detectives on BBC 2 at 7:30pm April 15th, 2016|first=GipsyMedia|last=Limited|website=digiguide.tv}}</ref> Since 2017, he has presented the Sunday morning [[BBC One]] programme ''[[Sunday Morning Live (British TV programme)|Sunday Morning Live]]'' initially alongside [[Emma Barnett]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/25/sunday-morning-live|title=BBC – Sunday Morning Live – Media Centre|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> He has also been an occasional co-presenter of the [[BBC One]] Sunday programme ''[[Songs of Praise]]''.

In September 2017, Fletcher replaced [[Matthew Wright (television presenter)|Matthew Wright]] as presenter of BBC's current affairs programme ''[[Inside Out (2002 TV programme)|Inside Out London]]''. In October 2017, he co-presented ''[[Britain's Classroom Heroes]]'' with [[Naga Munchetty]] on [[BBC Two]].

==Personal life== Fletcher speaks Welsh fluently,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Good-Morning-Britain-s-Sean-Fletcher-quiz-Rebound/story-27594347-detail/story.html|title=Western Daily Press|access-date=17 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817123530/http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Good-Morning-Britain-s-Sean-Fletcher-quiz-Rebound/story-27594347-detail/story.html|archive-date=17 August 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and he married Luned Tonderai, a Welsh television producer and director, on 30 March 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/lunedtonderai|title=Luned Tonderai (@lunedtonderai) – Twitter|website=twitter.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Sean |date=2024-04-02 |title=How I made my 25 year marriage last, starting with sleeping on an argument |url=https://inews.co.uk/opinion/how-i-made-my-25-year-marriage-last-starting-with-sleeping-on-an-argument-2985128 |access-date=2025-09-29 |website=The i Paper |language=en-US}}</ref> The couple have a daughter and son.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/meet-the-team/about-sean-fletcher|title=Sean Fletcher|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Sean |date=2024-04-26 |title=I'd just started as a presenter on GMB when my midlife crisis hit |url=https://inews.co.uk/opinion/sean-fletcher-gmb-presenter-midlife-crisis-3018028?srsltid=AfmBOopCNuJko1ZEhP-gc9oBk_5IYF4XJ4C9vCMpu_jDe8V0EZiElEQh |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=The i Paper |language=en-US}}</ref> Fletcher lives in [[Acton, London]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Al-Alas |first=Ruth Bloomfield, Rhanie |date=2023-06-02 |title=The battle for west London's skyline as locals clash with developers over towers |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/acton-regeneration-residents-clash-developers-ealing-council-skyscrapers-b1084518.html |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=The Standard |language=en}}</ref> He is a [[Christian]],<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC One – Songs of Praise – Sean Fletcher |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4RYDrZmhXnz4pMfD3jGqM06/sean-fletcher |website=BBC |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref> and supports [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.]]

===Charity=== In September 2015, Sean became an ambassador for the Beating Bowel Cancer charity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.beatingbowelcancer.org/news/sep2015/good-morning-britain-presenter-announced-ambassador|title=News Hub – Beating Bowel Cancer|website=Beating Bowel Cancer|access-date=30 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001203930/https://www.beatingbowelcancer.org/news/sep2015/good-morning-britain-presenter-announced-ambassador|archive-date=1 October 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He ran the [[2015 London Marathon|2015]] and [[2016 London Marathon]] to raise money for the charity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.justgiving.com/MarathonSean/|title=Read Sean's story|last=JustGiving|website=www.justgiving.com}}</ref> In 2017, Fletcher ran the [[London Marathon]] for mental health charities Heads Together and Young Minds UK. In 2018 he ran his fourth London Marathon for Young Minds UK, for whom he is an ambassador. He is a trustee of Orchard, a charity that funds research into new treatments for [[Obsessive Compulsive Disorder]] (OCD), and he regularly hosts [[webinar]]s with leading figures in OCD treatment.

In 2016, he played for the 'Rest of the World' team on ITV's celebrity football match ''[[Soccer Aid]]'', which supports [[UNICEF UK]].

==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 2005–2011 | ''[[BBC News]]'' | Sport presenter/correspondent | |- | 2008–2010 | ''[[BBC Breakfast]]'' | Sport correspondent | |- | 2011–2014 | ''[[Sky Sports News]]'' | Reporter | |- | 2014–present | ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'' | Newsreader/relief presenter | |- | 2015–2016 | ''[[Rebound (game show)|Rebound]]'' | rowspan="2" | Presenter | 2 series |- | 2015–present | ''[[Countryfile]]'' | |- | 2016 | ''Food Detectives'' | rowspan="2" | Co-presenter | 1 series |- | 2017–present | ''[[Sunday Morning Live (British TV programme)|Sunday Morning Live]]'' | |- | 2017–present | ''[[Songs of Praise]]'' | rowspan="2" | Presenter | |- | 2017–present | ''[[Inside Out (2002 TV programme)|Inside Out London]]'' | |- | 2017–present | ''[[Britain's Classroom Heroes]]'' | rowspan="2" | Co-presenter | Annually |- | 2017 | ''[[Lord Mayor's Show]]'' | |- | 2021 | ''Terfysg yn y Bae'' | rowspan="3" | Presenter | [[S4C]] series |- | rowspan="2" | 2022 | ''Wonders of the Border'' | [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] series<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week2/wonders-border|title=Wonders of the Border|website=itv.com/presscentre|access-date=21 January 2022}}</ref> |- | ''Britain's Secret War Babies'' | [[Channel 4]] documentary<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-w74jyv/britains-secret-war-babies/|title=Britain's Secret War Babies|website=radiotimes.come|access-date=13 August 2022}}</ref> |- | 2026 | [[Sky News]] | Newsreader | One-off |}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=2975038|name=Sean Fletcher}} *[http://www.seanfletcher.co.uk/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101004414/http://www.seanfletcher.co.uk/ |date=1 November 2020 }} *{{Twitter}} *{{itv.com|id=goodmorningbritain/meet-the-team/about-sean-fletcher|title=Sean Fletcher – ''Good Morning Britain''}}

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