Alexis Bowater is a former British

United Kingdom

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 television journalist and presenter.

Biography

The daughter of Sir Euan, 3rd Baronet Bowater

Bowater Baronets

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 and Lady Bowater, Alexis was born and brought up in Chagford

Chagford

Chagford is a small town and civil parish on the north-east edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, close to the River Teign. It is located off the A382, about 4 miles west of Moretonhampstead. The name Chagford is derived from the word chag, meaning gorse or broom, and the ford suffix indicates its...

, Devon

Devon

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. She graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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 with a Bachelor's Degree in English and Geography. She graduated from Bristol University with an MSc in International Development.

Career

Bowater become a reporter for the Express & Echo

Express & Echo

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 newspaper in Exeter

Exeter

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. She joined Westcountry Television in 1995 as a newsroom researcher, before becoming a presenter/producer for Westcountry News opt-out bulletins during GMTV

GMTV

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, alongside reporting duties.

Bowater later became a presenter/producer for late night & weekend bulletins and a stand-in anchor for the main evening programme, Westcountry Live

Westcountry Live

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, before becoming a full-time main anchor in 2003. She has also contributed to a number of non-news regional programmes for Westcountry including output for the station's Britain on the Move and People's Millions campaigns.

Bowater left the station in February 2009 when ITV Westcountry merged with ITV West, signalling the end of Westcountry Live.

Personal life

Since leaving ITV, Bowater is now a full-time mother to her two young children.

While pregnant in 2008, she was cyber-stalked

Cyberstalking

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 by Alexander Reeve, 24, who sent her 26 messages in one five month period. Reeve, from Looe

Looe

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, Cornwall

Cornwall

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, pleaded guilty at Plymouth Crown Court to five counts of communicating false information with intent and causing fear of violence. He also admitted twice communicating false information that a bomb was in the ITV studios at Langage Science Park.

Bowater has since become the Chief Executive for the Network for Surviving Stalking.
In April 2010 the NSS in collaboration with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and Protection Against Stalking launched the world's first national stalking helpline.