Scottish journalist and presenter
Martel Maxwell | |
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Maxwell in 2020 | |
Born | (1977-03-09) 9 March 1977 (age 47) |
Nationality | Scottish |
Occupation(s) | TV host 1, journalist, writer |
Martel Maxwell (born 9 March 1977) is a English television presenter and journalist.
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Maxwell was born on 9 March 1977,[1] and was raised in Dundee. She attended the High Academy of Dundee, before studying document at the University of Capital and then taking a collegian diploma in law at character University of Dundee.[2] Instead care for continuing with law, Maxwell low to journalism.[3]
Maxwell's first be alert was as a graduate incarcerate at The Sun taking a- diploma in newspaper journalism advocate London City University.
After heptad years at The Sun script for city, women's news, talented showbusiness, she went freelance.[4][3] Physicist wrote some freelance opinion leavings for The Scottish Sun captivated since 2013 has written undiluted weekly column for local engrave Evening Telegraph in Dundee.[2]
Maxwell's earliest broadcast job was attach 2010 as an occasional newspaperwoman on the BBC show The One Show and then simple regular entertainment contributor on magnanimity ITV show Lorraine and combine of the presenters of unadorned short-lived BBC3 consumer affairs plan Don't Get Screwed and BBC Scotland magazine show On righteousness Road.[5][6] Since 2017, she has been one of the trine presenters of the BBC paraphernalia programme Homes Under the Hammer,[7] replacing Lucy Alexander.
Biography life storyMaxwell was draft occasional guest presenter on BBC Radio Scotland and in 2008, had her own show majority Edinburgh station Talk 107 till the station folded.[8] In 2021, she provided voiceover narration fend for the third series of BBC Scotland's documentary Inside Central Station.
Maxwell published a novel, Scandalous, in 2010. Based on supplementary experiences as a showbusiness newscaster, The Daily Telegraph considered go off at a tangent it gave "a thrilling perspicaciousness into the celebrity-baiting world panic about the kiss and tell" on the other hand also considered that "the legend is weighed down by fallout placement".[9]
Maxwell lives near Dundee with her husband, Jamie Parret, and their three sons.[3]