Matt Baker
British TV presenter
Matthew James Baker (born 23 December 1977) is a British television presenter. He co-presented the children's television show Blue Peter from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's Countryfile since 2009 and The One Show from 2011 to 2020, with Alex Jones.
Early life
Baker was born on 23 December 1977 at Easington in County Durham where his father ran a newsagent's shop, and his parents had a smallholding in the village. He has one sister and two half-sisters.
Matt attended Easington Village School until age ten when his parents bought a farm west of Durham, which they moved into and renovated. From the age of five, Baker was a keen dancer and began competing as a gymnast whilst at school. He continued his education at Belmont Comprehensive School in Durham where he was a budding gymnast. After being diagnosed with anaemia at age 14, he was forced to give up gymnastics. He took A-levels in Drama, Biology and Sports Science at Durham Sixth Form Centre. Baker moved to Edinburgh to train as an actor at Queen Margaret University School of Drama.
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