Yvette Fielding
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Yvette Fielding is a British broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter
, Most Haunted
and Ghosthunting With...
.
in Bramhall
, Stockport
, in Greater Manchester
. She also attended Hillcrest Grammar School
, Davenport
and Dane Bank College
in Crewe (studying drama). Fielding's first major role came in 1983 when she was cast in the children's BBC
series Seaview
. The comedy-drama show centred around a teenage girl called Sandy Shelton (played by Fielding), growing up living at her parents' guest house in Blackpool
. The show ran for two series and secured Fielding's popularity with younger audiences. After this, Fielding made a guest appearance in an episode of Juliet Bravo
.
children's show, Blue Peter
. To date Fielding still holds the record of being the youngest presenter on Blue Peter, starting on 29 June 1987 three months before her 19th birthday. While on the series Fielding also had an acting role in Last of the Summer Wine
(making an appearance in the series while making a Blue Peter report on the show). During her time on the show, Fielding won the SOS Award for the Most Popular Woman on Television, competing with Cilla Black
, Victoria Wood
and Kylie Minogue
. Years after Fielding left the show, her trip on a rollercoaster with fellow presenter Mark Curry
was voted the Favourite Blue Peter moment of all time by viewers. After five years of Blue Peter, Fielding co-hosted What's Up Doc?
, a Saturday morning children's show on ITV
. The series ran for three years and established Fielding with slightly older audiences.
From 1995 Fielding made a successful transition from children's to television for an older audience. After leaving What's Up Doc? Fielding presented The Heaven and Earth Show
, The General
and City Hospital
for the BBC. She was a regular host of Karaoke Challenge and contributed weekend continuity for Challenge TV. Fielding briefly returned to children's television in 1997, appearing in two episodes of the CBBC drama series Byker Grove
, playing the role of Samantha Fuller. From 1998 - 2000, Fielding appeared as a regular alongside Fred Dineage and Toyah Willcox
on a property-pricing based game-show called Under Offer
made for Meridian Television. In 2003, Fielding appeared as a guest on the Channel 4
chat show
Richard & Judy
. In 2004, Fielding was named 'Multichannel personality of the year' at the Variety Club
Showbusines awards. In 2005, Fielding appeared as Annie Lennox
in a celebrity special of ITV's Stars in Their Eyes
, and also appeared as a guest panelist on Channel 5 show The Wright Stuff
(Fielding made further guest appearances on the show in 2008 and 2009). Later in the same year she also made a guest appearance on the BBC music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks
. In 2007 Fielding appeared as a guest on the ITV chat show Loose Women
, and appeared as a contestant in the ITV2
reality television programme Deadline, finishing second. Later on in the year she appeared as a guest on That Antony Cotton Show
. In January 2008, Fielding appeared as a contestant on the BBC quiz show Celebrity Mastermind
, with her specialist subject being Henry VIII
.
Fielding and her husband were the celebrity subjects of a one hour documentary for Living called Living With Yvette & Karl which aired on the 1 November 2008. A sequel documentary entitled In Bed with Yvette & Karl which aired on Living on January 17, 2009, charted Fielding's hysterectomy
operation and recovery. A full-length series of In Bed with Yvette & Karl, was then commissioned, and aired on Living during June and July 2009. In October 2009, a further documentary entitled Yvette & Karl: Life begins at 40 was broadcast. From February to March 2009, Fielding appeared in the ITV1
variety TV show Saturday Night Takeaway
. Fielding featured in the Ant v Dec segment of the programme, as a member of Ant's team (she was eliminated from the contest in the 5th round). On 21 May 2009, Yvette appeared for a fourth time on The Paul O'Grady Show
, and a day later, she appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
. In May 2009, Fielding appeared as a guest on the ITV talent show
spin off
Britain's Got More Talent. In July 2009, Fielding was a celebrity panelist in an episode of the Channel 4 comedy show 8 out of 10 Cats
. In November 2009, Fielding appeared as a celebrity contestant in an episode of Come Dine With Me
, finishing third. In May 2010, Fielding appeared as a guest on the Channel 5 chat show Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
.
established their own television production company, Antix Productions
. Their first production was Most Haunted
for the British TV channel Living. In the show, viewers can see Fielding and paranormal
experts investigating various supposedly haunted locations around Britain, in the hopes that paranormal activity may be documented by the crew. Most Haunted proved popular with audiences and remains to this day one of Living's highest-rated original shows. Leading on from this, in 2006 Fielding presented and produced Ghosthunting with...
, a paranormal show for ITV2
which shows Fielding leading various celebrities around haunted locations. These two shows established Yvette Fielding as British televisions 'first lady' of the paranormal, and somewhat of a cult figure. Fielding has made many appearances and interviews in the British media in connection with her paranormal investigations and programmes, including guest appearances on The Sunday Night Project
(Channel 4
), The Chris Moyles Show
(BBC Radio 1
) and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
(BBC One
). Furthering her paranormal franchise, in 2008 Fielding made her first move into radio
broadcasting, hosting Yvette Fielding's Fright Nights on Kerrang! Radio. Fielding left the radio station a few months later however, due to other work commitments.
In 2008 Fielding and Beattie formed a new company called Monster Pictures to operate the Paranormal Channel
. The channel (launched 9 June 2008) claimed to be the first TV channel in the world dedicated to the paranormal, and aimed to be ground breaking in its investigation of the subject. Fielding acted as anchor to the channel and presented original programming on the station. The channel was subsequently renamed the Unexplained Channel in 2009. However, in April 2010 the Unexplained Channel ceased broadcasting, with its EPG slot on Sky Digital being purchased by Information TV
.
In 2009, Fielding presented a two-part documentary with Paul O'Grady
entitled Death in Venice for Living which aired in October. The documentary saw the pair investigating claims of ghost and vampire sitings in Poveglia
, Italy
. On the 25th June 2010, Yvette Fielding announced via the Antix Productions website that she was to step down as presenter of Most Haunted. In subsequent interviews, Fielding has also indicated that she would finish presenting Ghosthunting with.. and all other paranormal-based broadcasts in 2010. However, seemingly contradicting this, in September 2011 Fielding presented another episode of Ghosthunting with... featuring the cast of The Only Way Is Essex
.
series for the bio channel, with the entire UK series of Celebrity Ghost Stories being produced by Fielding's Antix Productions
company. In September 2011, Fielding presented an episode of Ghosthunting with...
featuring the cast of The Only Way is Essex
for ITV2
.
On Monday 31st October (Halloween) Yvette appeared on BBC Radio 2 and Alan Titchmarsch show (ITV1) talking about ghosts and Most Haunted.
In these interviews she has stated that she will return to Most Haunted for 2012.
and daughter Mary (born 1999) and son William Sweeny (Drummer for Harry Styles's ex band White Eskimo) live on a farm in Cheshire
. She is very fond of cars and owns 3 Aston Martin
s, a Land Rover
, a Range Rover
and a London Taxi
(which she uses in Ghosthunting with...), Porsche 911
and a Porsche Chesil Speedster (which Karl her Husband gave Yvette as a 40th Birthday Present in America). Fielding has stated that she has Vitiligo
, a disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of her skin.
Yvette supports Stockport County
Blue Peter
Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...
, Most Haunted
Most Haunted
Most Haunted is a British paranormal documentary reality television series. The series was first shown on 25 May 2002 and ended on 21 July 2010. It was broadcast on Living and presented by Yvette Fielding. The programme was based on investigating purported paranormal activity...
and Ghosthunting With...
Ghosthunting With...
Ghosthunting With... is based on investigating purported paranormal activity. Yvette Fielding hosts the programme, broadcast on digital channel ITV2, where she takes celebrities to haunted buildings to investigate....
.
Early life and career
Yvette Fielding was educated at Pownall Green Primary School and Bramhall High SchoolBramhall High School
Bramhall High School is a comprehensive high school in Bramhall, Stockport, England.-Admissions:The school is a Science College and a Reed College of Enterprise. It is also a teacher training school in connection with Manchester Metropolitan University...
in Bramhall
Bramhall
Bramhall is a suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of about 25,500.Research by the University of Sheffield has placed Bramhall as the "least lonely" place in Britain. Bramhall is also regarded as an affluent area where most residents...
, Stockport
Stockport
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground southeast of Manchester city centre, at the point where the rivers Goyt and Tame join and create the River Mersey. Stockport is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name...
, in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
. She also attended Hillcrest Grammar School
Hillcrest Grammar School
Hillcrest Grammar School in Cale Green, Stockport, Greater Manchester is an independent day school with around 350 pupils aged 2½ to 16. The school was founded as a boys' preparatory school in 1940 in Bramhall...
, Davenport
Davenport, Greater Manchester
Davenport is a district of Stockport, Greater Manchester in the North West region of England.- History :Davenport's name arose from the building of Davenport railway station at the behest of the Davenport family who since the later 14th century had owned nearby Bramall Hall in the neighbouring...
and Dane Bank College
South Cheshire College
South Cheshire College is a further education college, located in Crewe, England. The College is a single campus situated in a residential area about one mile from Crewe town center. The College is the sole provider of post-16 education in Crewe. It also attracts students from Nantwich, Alsager,...
in Crewe (studying drama). Fielding's first major role came in 1983 when she was cast in the children's BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
series Seaview
Seaview (TV series)
Seaview is a British children's television series produced by the BBC in 1983.Written by Chris Barlas, the series was a light-hearted comedy drama centred around a teenage girl, Sandy Shelton , and her younger brother George growing up living at her parents' guest house in Blackpool...
. The comedy-drama show centred around a teenage girl called Sandy Shelton (played by Fielding), growing up living at her parents' guest house in Blackpool
Blackpool
Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...
. The show ran for two series and secured Fielding's popularity with younger audiences. After this, Fielding made a guest appearance in an episode of Juliet Bravo
Juliet Bravo
Juliet Bravo is a British television series, which ran on BBC1 between 1980 and 1985. The theme of the series concerned a female police inspector who took over control of a police station in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire.-Programme name:...
.
Blue Peter and beyond
In 1987 Yvette Fielding became a presenter on the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
children's show, Blue Peter
Blue Peter
Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...
. To date Fielding still holds the record of being the youngest presenter on Blue Peter, starting on 29 June 1987 three months before her 19th birthday. While on the series Fielding also had an acting role in Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and...
(making an appearance in the series while making a Blue Peter report on the show). During her time on the show, Fielding won the SOS Award for the Most Popular Woman on Television, competing with Cilla Black
Cilla Black
Cilla Black OBE is an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality, who has been consistently popular as a light entertainment figure since 1963. She is most famous for her singles Anyone Who Had A Heart, You're My World, and Alfie...
, Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood CBE is a British comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano...
and Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
. Years after Fielding left the show, her trip on a rollercoaster with fellow presenter Mark Curry
Mark Curry (television presenter)
Mark Curry is an English television presenter most often in children's programmes.- Early career :He started his television career aged seven appearing on ITV's Junior Showtime and played the producer in the film Bugsy Malone .In 1981, Curry co-hosted the series Get Set For Summer on BBC1 with...
was voted the Favourite Blue Peter moment of all time by viewers. After five years of Blue Peter, Fielding co-hosted What's Up Doc?
What's Up Doc? (TV series)
What's Up Doc? was a Saturday Morning children's variety series produced Scottish Television and aired on ITV from 1992 to 1995 and hosted by Andy Crane, Yvette Fielding and Pat Sharp...
, a Saturday morning children's show on ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
. The series ran for three years and established Fielding with slightly older audiences.
From 1995 Fielding made a successful transition from children's to television for an older audience. After leaving What's Up Doc? Fielding presented The Heaven and Earth Show
The Heaven and Earth Show
The Heaven and Earth Show was a BBC television programme that aired on Sunday mornings from 10am to 11am on BBC One. The show ran for nine years between 1998 and 2007, looking at spiritual and moral issues...
, The General
The General (TV series)
The General was a BBC fly-on-the-wall Television series hosted by Yvette Fielding, Chris Serle and Heather Mills. Based at Southampton General Hospital, the programme tracked the progress of selected patients, including outpatients, at the hospital. The series was broadcast live every weekday on...
and City Hospital
City Hospital
City Hospital was a medical drama series that aired on the CBS television network Tuesday nights from 1951 through 1953. The show starred Anne Burr as Dr. Kate Morrow and Mel Ruick as Dr. Barton Crane....
for the BBC. She was a regular host of Karaoke Challenge and contributed weekend continuity for Challenge TV. Fielding briefly returned to children's television in 1997, appearing in two episodes of the CBBC drama series Byker Grove
Byker Grove
Byker Grove was a British television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 and was created by Adele Rose. The show was broadcast at 5.10pm after Newsround on CBBC on BBC One...
, playing the role of Samantha Fuller. From 1998 - 2000, Fielding appeared as a regular alongside Fred Dineage and Toyah Willcox
Toyah Willcox
Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...
on a property-pricing based game-show called Under Offer
Under Offer
Under Offer is an ITV game show that aired from 14 April 1998 to 17 June 2001 and ran for 4 series. It is hosted by Yvette Fielding and team captained by Fred Dineage and Toyah Wilcox.-Transmissions:...
made for Meridian Television. In 2003, Fielding appeared as a guest on the Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
chat show
Talk show
A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host....
Richard & Judy
Richard & Judy
Richard & Judy was a British magazine/chat show which was presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. It originally aired on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2008 but later moved to digital channel Watch in October 2008. It featured the world's most famous stars, along with their Book Club...
. In 2004, Fielding was named 'Multichannel personality of the year' at the Variety Club
Variety, the Children's Charity
Variety, the Children's Charity is an organisation founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1927, when a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the "Variety Club". On Christmas Eve 1928, a small baby was left on the steps the Sheridan Square...
Showbusines awards. In 2005, Fielding appeared as Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
in a celebrity special of ITV's Stars in Their Eyes
Stars In Their Eyes
Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show that ran on Saturdays nights from 21 July 1990 until 23 December 2006 in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars...
, and also appeared as a guest panelist on Channel 5 show The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....
(Fielding made further guest appearances on the show in 2008 and 2009). Later in the same year she also made a guest appearance on the BBC music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game television show with a pop music theme, currently without a permanent presenter. It stars Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding as team captains. The show is produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC, and is usually aired on BBC Two...
. In 2007 Fielding appeared as a guest on the ITV chat show Loose Women
Loose Women
Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip...
, and appeared as a contestant in the ITV2
ITV2
ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...
reality television programme Deadline, finishing second. Later on in the year she appeared as a guest on That Antony Cotton Show
That Antony Cotton Show
That Antony Cotton Show is a British comedy chat show that was broadcast on ITV for one series in 2007. It was presented by Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton, and aired on weekdays at 5pm. The show was not broadcast in Northern Ireland, due to UTV's news programme beginning at 5.30pm...
. In January 2008, Fielding appeared as a contestant on the BBC quiz show Celebrity Mastermind
Celebrity Mastermind
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master...
, with her specialist subject being Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
.
Fielding and her husband were the celebrity subjects of a one hour documentary for Living called Living With Yvette & Karl which aired on the 1 November 2008. A sequel documentary entitled In Bed with Yvette & Karl which aired on Living on January 17, 2009, charted Fielding's hysterectomy
Hysterectomy
A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, usually performed by a gynecologist. Hysterectomy may be total or partial...
operation and recovery. A full-length series of In Bed with Yvette & Karl, was then commissioned, and aired on Living during June and July 2009. In October 2009, a further documentary entitled Yvette & Karl: Life begins at 40 was broadcast. From February to March 2009, Fielding appeared in the ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
variety TV show Saturday Night Takeaway
Saturday Night Takeaway
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, is a variety show created by LWT and shown in the UK on Saturday evenings on ITV, presented and executively produced by Ant & Dec. It is broadcast live from The London Studios on the South Bank...
. Fielding featured in the Ant v Dec segment of the programme, as a member of Ant's team (she was eliminated from the contest in the 5th round). On 21 May 2009, Yvette appeared for a fourth time on The Paul O'Grady Show
The Paul O'Grady Show
The Paul O'Grady Show was a BAFTA award-winning British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV before moving to Channel 4...
, and a day later, she appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was a British comedy chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 November 2001. The programme featured Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band...
. In May 2009, Fielding appeared as a guest on the ITV talent show
Talent show
A talent show is an event where participants perform their talent or talents of acting, singing, dancing, acrobatics, drumming, martial arts, playing an instrument, and other activities to showcase a unique form of talent, sometimes for a reward, trophy or prize...
spin off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
Britain's Got More Talent. In July 2009, Fielding was a celebrity panelist in an episode of the Channel 4 comedy show 8 out of 10 Cats
8 Out of 10 Cats
8 out of 10 Cats is a television comedy panel game made by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by...
. In November 2009, Fielding appeared as a celebrity contestant in an episode of Come Dine With Me
Come Dine With Me
Come Dine With Me is a popular Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, produced by Granada Television and first broadcast in January 2005. The show has either four or five amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants...
, finishing third. In May 2010, Fielding appeared as a guest on the Channel 5 chat show Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times is British comedy chat show hosted by comedian Justin Lee Collins.The format is a weekly chat show that consists of a mixture of celebrity guests, comic stunts and musical performances.-Episodes:...
.
Presenting the paranormal
In 2002, Yvette Fielding and her husband Karl BeattieKarl Beattie
Karl Beattie is an outspoken broadcaster, pundit and the husband of Yvette Fielding, main presenter Living TV's now defunct Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live, programmes which investigated psychic and paranormal phenomena...
established their own television production company, Antix Productions
Antix Productions
Antix Productions is a television production company founded by Yvette Fielding and Karl Beattie in 2001. The company have produced shows for broadcasters such as Living and ITV in the UK and Travel Channel in the USA...
. Their first production was Most Haunted
Most Haunted
Most Haunted is a British paranormal documentary reality television series. The series was first shown on 25 May 2002 and ended on 21 July 2010. It was broadcast on Living and presented by Yvette Fielding. The programme was based on investigating purported paranormal activity...
for the British TV channel Living. In the show, viewers can see Fielding and paranormal
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
experts investigating various supposedly haunted locations around Britain, in the hopes that paranormal activity may be documented by the crew. Most Haunted proved popular with audiences and remains to this day one of Living's highest-rated original shows. Leading on from this, in 2006 Fielding presented and produced Ghosthunting with...
Ghosthunting With...
Ghosthunting With... is based on investigating purported paranormal activity. Yvette Fielding hosts the programme, broadcast on digital channel ITV2, where she takes celebrities to haunted buildings to investigate....
, a paranormal show for ITV2
ITV2
ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...
which shows Fielding leading various celebrities around haunted locations. These two shows established Yvette Fielding as British televisions 'first lady' of the paranormal, and somewhat of a cult figure. Fielding has made many appearances and interviews in the British media in connection with her paranormal investigations and programmes, including guest appearances on The Sunday Night Project
The Sunday Night Project
The Sunday Night Project was a British comedy-variety show by Princess Productions that first aired on Channel 4 in February 2005 under the title The Friday Night Project...
(Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
), The Chris Moyles Show
The Chris Moyles Show
The Chris Moyles Show is the current BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK, and has been since Chris Moyles became the station's breakfast show presenter on 5 January 2004. From 2004 to 2007, the show was broadcast 6:55–10:00 am each weekday, but since 15 October 2007 it has started from...
(BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
) and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was a British comedy chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 November 2001. The programme featured Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band...
(BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
). Furthering her paranormal franchise, in 2008 Fielding made her first move into radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
broadcasting, hosting Yvette Fielding's Fright Nights on Kerrang! Radio. Fielding left the radio station a few months later however, due to other work commitments.
In 2008 Fielding and Beattie formed a new company called Monster Pictures to operate the Paranormal Channel
Paranormal Channel
The Unexplained Channel was an entertainment TV channel broadcast in the UK on the Sky Digital platform. The channel claimed to be the first TV channel in the world dedicated to the paranormal, and aimed to be ground breaking in its investigation of the subject....
. The channel (launched 9 June 2008) claimed to be the first TV channel in the world dedicated to the paranormal, and aimed to be ground breaking in its investigation of the subject. Fielding acted as anchor to the channel and presented original programming on the station. The channel was subsequently renamed the Unexplained Channel in 2009. However, in April 2010 the Unexplained Channel ceased broadcasting, with its EPG slot on Sky Digital being purchased by Information TV
Information TV
Information TV is a television organisation which broadcasts three free-to-air channels on Sky and Freesat in the United Kingdom.-History:Information TV came into existence in April 2003, and received its ITC licence in November 2003. It began broadcasting at 10am on Monday, 19 January 2004 on Sky...
.
In 2009, Fielding presented a two-part documentary with Paul O'Grady
Paul O'Grady
Paul James Michael O'Grady MBE is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul O'Grady Show and, more recently, Paul O'Grady Live, as well as his drag queen comedic alter ego, Lily Savage, as...
entitled Death in Venice for Living which aired in October. The documentary saw the pair investigating claims of ghost and vampire sitings in Poveglia
Poveglia
Poveglia is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. A small canal divides the island into two parts. It is off-limits to visitors.-History:...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. On the 25th June 2010, Yvette Fielding announced via the Antix Productions website that she was to step down as presenter of Most Haunted. In subsequent interviews, Fielding has also indicated that she would finish presenting Ghosthunting with.. and all other paranormal-based broadcasts in 2010. However, seemingly contradicting this, in September 2011 Fielding presented another episode of Ghosthunting with... featuring the cast of The Only Way Is Essex
The Only Way Is Essex
The Only Way Is Essex, is a British BAFTA award-winning semi-reality show based in Essex, England. It shows "real people in modified situations, saying unscripted lines but in a structured way."...
.
Recent career
In May 2011, Yvette Fielding appeared in an episode of the UK version of the Celebrity Ghost StoriesCelebrity Ghost Stories
Celebrity Ghost Stories is a television show on BIO & A&E Network. It is a reality show that interviews various celebrities who have witnessed paranormal events at certain points in their lives.-Season 1 - ::...
series for the bio channel, with the entire UK series of Celebrity Ghost Stories being produced by Fielding's Antix Productions
Antix Productions
Antix Productions is a television production company founded by Yvette Fielding and Karl Beattie in 2001. The company have produced shows for broadcasters such as Living and ITV in the UK and Travel Channel in the USA...
company. In September 2011, Fielding presented an episode of Ghosthunting with...
Ghosthunting With...
Ghosthunting With... is based on investigating purported paranormal activity. Yvette Fielding hosts the programme, broadcast on digital channel ITV2, where she takes celebrities to haunted buildings to investigate....
featuring the cast of The Only Way is Essex
The Only Way Is Essex
The Only Way Is Essex, is a British BAFTA award-winning semi-reality show based in Essex, England. It shows "real people in modified situations, saying unscripted lines but in a structured way."...
for ITV2
ITV2
ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...
.
On Monday 31st October (Halloween) Yvette appeared on BBC Radio 2 and Alan Titchmarsch show (ITV1) talking about ghosts and Most Haunted.
In these interviews she has stated that she will return to Most Haunted for 2012.
Personal life
Yvette Fielding, her husband Karl BeattieKarl Beattie
Karl Beattie is an outspoken broadcaster, pundit and the husband of Yvette Fielding, main presenter Living TV's now defunct Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live, programmes which investigated psychic and paranormal phenomena...
and daughter Mary (born 1999) and son William Sweeny (Drummer for Harry Styles's ex band White Eskimo) live on a farm in Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
. She is very fond of cars and owns 3 Aston Martin
Aston Martin
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...
s, a Land Rover
Land Rover
Land Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles. It is owned by the Indian company Tata Motors, forming part of their Jaguar Land Rover group...
, a Range Rover
Range Rover
The Range Rover is a large luxury four-wheel drive sport utility vehicle produced by British car maker Land Rover. The model, launched in 1970, is now in its third generation...
and a London Taxi
Hackney carriage
A hackney or hackney carriage is a carriage or automobile for hire...
(which she uses in Ghosthunting with...), Porsche 911
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is a luxury 2-door sports coupe made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. The engine was also air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998...
and a Porsche Chesil Speedster (which Karl her Husband gave Yvette as a 40th Birthday Present in America). Fielding has stated that she has Vitiligo
Vitiligo
Vitiligo is a condition that causes depigmentation of sections of skin. It occurs when melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation, die or are unable to function. The cause of vitiligo is unknown, but research suggests that it may arise from autoimmune, genetic, oxidative stress,...
, a disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of her skin.
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