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The Metropolitan Police released the following statement: "Police were called at 13.20 on January 3 to reports of a sudden death of a woman at a residential address in St John's Wood. The woman, aged in her 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene. He has been bailed to return to a central London police station on a date in February."<ref name="Sky">{{cite news
The Metropolitan Police released the following statement: "Police were called at 13.20 on January 3 to reports of a sudden death of a woman at a residential address in St John's Wood. The woman, aged in her 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene. He has been bailed to return to a central London police station on a date in February."<ref name="Sky">

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Revision as of 17:49, 4 January 2008

Mark Speight
Born1965
OccupationTV presenter
WebsiteSMart Website

Mark Warwick Fordham Speight,[1] born in Wolverhampton, England[2] on 6th August 1965, is a British TV presenter. He is best known for presenting the BBC children's art programme SMart.

Biography

Speight is fully qualified in the field of commercial and graphic design, having gained a degree in the subject at university. He is also left-handed.

Television presenting

Speight has worked on numerous shows for the BBC, CITV and The Discovery Channel. The programmes he has presented have ranged from children's TV to adult factual programmes. Speight has hosted the series Beat the Cyborgs and SMarteenies, and has made appearances on Blue Peter, The Saturday Show, The Heaven and Earth Show, and also the Saturday morning show Scratchy and Co. He is probably best known for presenting SMart, which he has hosted with various co-presenters since it began in 1994.

Other work

His first television appearance came in the guise of the Milky Bar Kid (1974 -6), an advertisement promoting the Nestlé milk chocolate bar. In 1997 Speight appeared for the celebrities on the "Celebrities vs Jockeys Special" of the ITV show Gladiators,[3] and was also a contestant in Celebrity Wrestling, which aired in April 2005.

Arrest

On Thursday January 3, 2008, Speight was arrested in connection with the death of his fiancée and co-worker, television presenter Natasha Collins, whom he found dead in the bathroom of their London flat. He was released on bail the next day, until the first week of February.[2]

The Metropolitan Police released the following statement: "Police were called at 13.20 on January 3 to reports of a sudden death of a woman at a residential address in St John's Wood. The woman, aged in her 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene. He has been bailed to return to a central London police station on a date in February."[4]

References

  1. ^ "21 October 2007". SMart. 2007-10-21. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b "CBBC star 'distraught' over death". BBC News. BBC. 2008-01-04. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
  3. ^ http://forum.gladiatorszone.com/YaBB.pl?num=1092670834/11#11
  4. ^

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    "BBC Presenter Quizzed Over Body In Bath". Sky News. BSkyB. 2008-01-04. Retrieved 2008-01-04.