Mark Speight

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Speight
Occupation	Tv Show Host
Date Of Birth	Aug 6, 1965(1965-08-06)
Age	59
Date Of Death	2008-04-07
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Mark Speight Biography

Mark Speight is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on August 6, 1965 in England, United Kingdom. hosted the children’s show SMart and was presenter on The show See It Saw It, as well as a guest in the critically acclaimed show Scratchy & Co.

He was a television show for children. show host, just as Fred Rogers. Rogers.

Speight intended to become a cartoonist, but he eventually became a TV presenter following a job painting the set of a television production. He auditioned for SMart and, following a successful interview where he met future co-presenter Jay Burridge, he went on to present SMart from its first edition in 1994. Speight became close friends with Burridge, whose art studio in West London was used to create all of the art content for SMart; Burridge noted: “We would bounce ideas and jokes off each other all day until we had developed an almost telepathically linked knowledge of what made each other laugh.” Speight and Burridge were joined by third presenter Zoe Ball, who was replaced first by Josie d’Arby, and then Kirsten O’Brien and Lizi Botham. With Burridge, O’Brien and Botham, Speight presented the spin-off shows SMart on the Road, SMarteenies, and various live events. He starred in the BAFTA- nominated ITV Saturday morning show Scratchy & Co. from 1995 until 1998.

Speight’s other work ranged from children’s television to adult factual programmes. His children’s television credits include playing the Abominable No Man in Timmy Mallett’s Timmy Towers and presenting Beat the Cyborgs, Name That Toon, On Your Marks, Insides Out, and History Busters, the last of which won a Royal Television Society Award. Speight also worked on This Morning, The Heaven and Earth Show, The Big Breakfast and was a contestant on ITV’s Gladiators and Celebrity Wrestling. Speight also played the king on children’s programme See It Saw It, where he met Natasha Collins. Collins was seriously injured after being hit by a car in 2001, and had to leave See It Saw It. Speight began dating her in 2003, and they became engaged in Barbados in 2005. They planned to get married in fancy dress and Speight joked that the wedding might feature monkeys, his favourite animal.

The wife of his Natasha Collins overdosed and was discovered to be dead by the time 2008 came around. The incident led him to take his own life, leaving the note that stated that he could not survive without her.

Mark Speight Net Worth

Mark Speight is one of the richest Tv Show Host from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Speight 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated with an education in graphic art and commercial design and was originally planning to be a cartoonist.

There are other credits to his name for History Busters, This Morning The Heaven and Earth Show, The Heaven and Earth Show as well as numerous other appearances on television.

Mark Warwick Fordham Speight (6 August 1965 – 7 April 2008) was an English television presenter and host of children’s art programme SMart. Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist. He took a degree in commercial and graphic art and, while working in television set construction, heard of auditions for a new children’s art programme. Speight was successful in his audition and became one of the first presenters of SMart, working on it for 14 years.

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Who is Mark Speight Dating?

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In April 2008, the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure in relation to Collins. The cause of death was “cocaine toxicity and immersion in hot water”, according to the consultant pathologist. The inquest found that she had taken “very significant” amounts of cocaine with sleeping pills and vodka, and that she had suffered 60% burns to her body, including her tongue. The coroner noted that at some stage in the night after both Speight and Collins had gone to bed, Collins got up to have a bath. He said that it was “more likely than not” that a heart problem had caused Collins to fall unconscious while the hot tap was running. Following Collins’s death, Speight moved in with Collins’s mother.

Facts & Trivia

Mark Ranked on the list of most popular TV Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mark Speight celebrates birthday on August 6 of every year.

Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire. He grew up in the village of Tettenhall, Wolverhampton and had two siblings, Tina-Louise Richmond (née Speight), and Jason Speight. His father, Oliver Warwick Speight, is a property developer, and his mother, Jacqueline Fordham Speight (née Parker), was an art teacher. Jacqueline died on 5 September 2008, aged 62. Speight attended the independent school Tettenhall College for a year, before moving to state comprehensive Regis School, now known as King’s C.E. School, also in Tettenhall, at the age of 12. Speight stated in an interview he was a slow learner at school, with a short attention span, and art was a way for him to communicate. He said he did “very badly” because he was a victim of bullying, and the “daily ordeal for two years” forced him to become the “class joker”. Speight left aged 16 and went on to attend Bilston Art School, where he took a degree in commercial and graphic art.

What happened to Mark Speight?

Death and inquest On 13 April 2008, Speight’s body was discovered hanging from the roof of MacMillan House, adjacent to London’s Paddington Station, hidden from public view. The discovery was made by railway workers at 10:00 am, and British Transport Police confirmed that the body was Speight’s on 14 April 2008.

What happened to Natasha Collins?

Natasha Louise Collins (7 July 1976 – 3 January 2008) was an English actress and model. Following a car accident that curtailed her career, she fatally overdosed on cocaine , which Mark Speight, her fiancé, was initially suspected of supplying, but he was not charged.

Who hung themselves in a train station?

Revealed: The spot where tragic TV star Mark Speight’s body hung undiscovered for six days. T he body of grieving TV presenter Mark Speight may have lain undiscovered at Paddington Station for up to six days, police sources said today.

Who are the current CBBC presenters?

PresenterYears
Joe Tasker| 2019–present
Alishea Campbell-Drummond| 2021–present
Lee Hinchcliffe| 2021–present
Laura Hopkinson| 2021–present

Who was the first CBBC presenter?

Philip Schofield was the first CBBC presenter: “I had great fun in the Broom Cupboard, learning the skills of live TV,” he said. “If you can introduce Newsround with a fluffy Gopher squeaking next to you, you can handle anything.” Andy Crane presented CBBC in 1990 with co-presenters Edd the Duck and Wilson the Butler.