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One of Television’s best known faces to host 2008 awards
John Sergeant, the former BBC Chief Political Correspondent, will host the 2008 Sign Industry Awards at a Gala Evening to be held at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Wednesday, 3rd September.
John, who joined the BBC in 1970 as a radio reporter and covered stories in more than 25 countries, also worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Cyprus, Israel and Rhodesia.
One of his most notable journalistic achievements was his encounter with Margaret Thatcher at the Paris Embassy, just days before she resigned as Prime Minister, when he was pushed aside by her press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham.
However, while journalism has been his principal career, there is another side to John – light entertainment and comedy. In the late 1960s he appeared in the award winning BBC comedy series ‘On the Margin’ with Alan Bennett and 30 years later revived is career in comedy when he appeared on “Have I Got News for You” on BBC2 and was described by Ian Hislop as one of the funniest guests in the programme’s history.
He also had a memorable meeting with Paul Merton in ‘Room 101’, when he listed one of his pet hates as the BBC TV programme ‘Casualty’. John will host the awards at a Gala Event at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on September 3.
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