Martin Roberts (presenter)

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Martin Roberts
Born
Martin Leyland Roberts

(1963-07-20) 20 July 1963 (age 60)
Warrington, Cheshire, England
Years active1984–present
Television Homes Under the Hammer
SpouseKirsty Roberts
Children2

Martin Leyland Roberts (born 20 July 1963) is an English television presenter, property expert, investor, entrepreneur and author. He presents the BBC One property auction series Homes Under the Hammer with co-presenters Martel Maxwell (since 2016) and Dion Dublin, although his co-presenter for many years was Lucy Alexander. He also hosts the Talkradio show "Home Rule with Martin Roberts", where he chats about property.

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Early life and career

Born in Warrington, Cheshire, Roberts was brought up in Stockton Heath, a suburb of Warrington. [1] Roberts began his career in the late 1980s at BBC Radio Manchester. Roberts' grandfather was a well known organist at various Warrington chapels.

He attended Appleton Hall Grammar School then studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Bradford 1983–86 and was a DJ on Ramair, the university's radio station. [2] Roberts has worked as a property developer since the early 1990s and has contributed to several publications, both on the subject of property development and travel. [3]

Since then, he has presented several other programmes including Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and How to Survive the Property Crisis, both for the BBC as well as ITV's travel programme Wish You Were Here...? [4] Roberts is most famous for being BBC's UK and Overseas Property expert writing and presenting Homes Under the Hammer having done since the programme began in 2003 to the present day, as well as making regular appearances on BBC Breakfast, BBC News 24 and The One Show [5]

Roberts has also made appearances on Ready Steady Cook with Homes Under the Hammer co-presenter, Lucy Alexander. He has been a celebrity contestant on BBC gameshows Hole in the Wall and Pointless, raising money for charity. In July 2010 Roberts entered the BBC television programme Celebrity MasterChef , and was the first eliminated. In November 2016, Roberts was a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! . He was eliminated after spending 15 days in camp, coming in sixth place.

Roberts has presented radio throughout his career as the BBC's UK and Overseas Property expert contributing to many shows on BBC radios 2, 4 and 5 Live. He is a regular guest presenter on The Jeremy Vine Show which airs on BBC Radio 2 [6] and Moneybox which airs on BBC Radio 4. [7] In March 2016, Roberts began hosting a weekly property radio show for Talk Radio named “Gazumped” (Saturday 11 am –1 pm and Sunday 5 –7 pm). The show was later renamed “Home Rule” and Sunday editions are no longer live, but recorded, broadcast from 6 am to 8 am. [8]

In September 2012, Roberts publicly criticised proposed government changes to the planning laws of England that would double the size of extensions that do not need approval. [9]

As well as presenting on both radio and television Roberts has written many books such as Teach Yourself Making Money from Property, [10] and The Property Auction Guide [11]

Roberts has also contributed to travelling books including Great Festivals of the World, The Travellers' Handbook and Intrepid Africa. [12] Roberts is the author of The Villes Children's Books series. [13] One of the books in the series, Sadsville, was written in partnership with the NSPCC to encourage children to contact ChildLine if they need someone to talk to about any problems, although it is unrelated to the subject of mental health. To promote this book, Martin Roberts went to his local primary school, at which his children attended. He performed a reading of the book and brought in a red bus for the children to go on. [14] [15]

Roberts currently presents a radio show in which he investigates the living arrangements of famous footballers.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

For many years, Roberts lived in Paulton near Bath, Somerset, and is married with two children. In 2017, he opened his village's annual "Party in the Park". [16]

In February 2023 Roberts bought the Hendrewen Hotel in Blaencwm at the top of the Rhondda Fawr. He intended to spend at least half a million pounds of his own money on the project. He had already bought and converted a nearby farm into a B&B. Roberts said, "It's been a bit spiritual for me in lots of ways, I can't really explain it. I just feel it and I felt it when I started to come to Wales in recent times, I just felt this sense of being at home, at peace and happy." [17] [18]

Roberts has also become patron of the Rhondda Tunnel Society, which hopes to reopen a nearby tunnel, originally built in 1890 to haul coal to Swansea, for cyclists. [17]

On 9 March 2023, Roberts announced that his father, Norman, had died aged 90. [19]

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Television
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References

  1. ↑ "BBC Homes under the Hammer star talks about the Warrington property market". Warrington Guardian . 20 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Martin Roberts Linkedin (Requires Account Full Profile under Education)".
  3. ↑ "Interview with Homes Under The Hammer Star Martin Roberts". Bath Chronicle. 3 August 2013. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Martin Roberts profile". peoplematter.tv. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Martin Roberts, Book Property Speaker Martin Roberts". tmcentertainment.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "07/11/2008, Jeremy Vine – BBC Radio 2". BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "Money Box Transcript" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "Martin Roberts to host new property show on talkRADIO". 7 March 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  9. ↑ Roberts, Martin (7 September 2012). "Relaxing Planning Laws will Damage British Housing". HuffPost .
  10. ↑ Roberts, Martin (2008). Teach Yourself Making Money from Property. Teach Yourself. ISBN   978-0-340-96637-2.
  11. ↑ "The Property Auction Guide". martinroberts.co.uk. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  12. ↑ "Books | Martin Roberts". www.martinroberts.co.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  13. ↑ "The Villes". thevilles.co.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "Mogers Drewett help support children's book project – Mogers Drewett". Mogers Drewett. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  15. ↑ Paulton's journal
  16. ↑ Paulton's summer magazine 2017
  17. 1 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64847126
  18. ↑ https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/homes-property/martin-roberts-ploughing-half-million-26307193
  19. ↑ McLouglin, Lisa (9 March 2023). "Homes Under The Hammer host Martin Roberts in tears as he announces father's death aged 90". Evening Standard. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  20. ↑ "Strictly the Real Full Monty: Line-up revealed". itv.com/presscentre. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
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