James Whitaker
Actor · 1940 – 2012 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
James Whitaker was an English journalist, specialising in the British royal family. He was educated at Cheltenham College. Initially working as an articled clerk in an accountancy firm, in 1963, he became a reporter at the Hounslow, Brentford and Chiswick Post. In 1967, he moved to the Daily Mail, and joined the William Hickey column team at the Daily Express in 1971. In 1975, he joined The Sun, where he struck up a lifelong friendship with Royal photographer Arthur Edwards. As a result, in 1979, he joined the team on the launch of the Daily Star as its Royal reporter. He then moved to the Daily Mirror. Whitaker wrote the book Diana v. Charles which chronicled the deterioration of the relationship between Diana and Prince Charles. Whitaker was Royal Correspondent for the ITV television programme This Morning. In 2004, he took part in the reality television programme Celebrity Fit Club and was made team captain for the final three weeks and "Mr Fit Club 2004". He was one of three judges on Australia's Australian Princess television programme.
Series5
TV5.6Talk ShowChat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Wogan
1982 · 8 votes
TV6.0RealityThe clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.
Countdown
1982 · 20 votes
TV5.2Talk ShowNewsThis Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
This Morning
1988 · 23 votes
- TV7.0RealityDocumentary
Celebrity Fit Club is a reality television series that follows eight overweight celebrities as they try to lose weight for charity. Split into two competing teams of four, each week teams are given different physical challenges, and weighed to see if they reached their target weights. They are monitored and supervised by a team that includes a nutritionist, a psychologist, and a physical trainer, the latter of which is former U.S. Marine Harvey Walden IV.
Celebrity Fit Club UK
2002 · 1 votes
- TV
In three fifty minute films,this series reveals the deals and the betrayals,the polite letters from palace press secretaries and the bollockings from tabloid editors,the telephone calls to the BBC Governors and the intercepted mobile phone calls from royal paramours which form the recent history of the relationship between the Royal Family,politicians and the media.