TV presenter and journalist Invoice Turnbull has died on the age of 66, his household has stated.
hey stated the BBC Breakfast presenter died “peacefully” at house in Suffolk on Wednesday after a “difficult and dedicated combat in opposition to prostate most cancers” which had been identified in November 2017.
His Breakfast co-presenter Susannah Reid wrote on Twitter: “Invoice was the kindest, funniest, most beneficiant man within the enterprise. I really feel fortunate to have labored with him and he taught me every thing. However above all, he was dedicated to his household and I’m heartbroken for them. RIP Invoice. We’ll miss you a lot.”
Turnbull, who appeared on the BBC1 present from 2001 till 2016, revealed the analysis in March 2018 and detailed his therapy in a Channel 4 documentary referred to as Staying Alive.
In October final 12 months he introduced he was taking a go away of absence from his present on Traditional FM for well being causes.
His household praised the therapy he had acquired on the Royal Marsden and Ipswich hospitals, St Elizabeth Hospice and his GP.
They added: “He was resolutely optimistic and was massively buoyed by the help he acquired from associates, colleagues, and messages from folks wishing him luck. It was an ideal consolation to Invoice that so many extra males at the moment are testing earlier for this illness.
“Invoice shall be remembered by many as a outstanding broadcaster who introduced heat and humour into folks’s properties on BBC Breakfast and Traditional FM.
“He was additionally a faithful Wycombe Wanderers fan and an ever-aspiring beekeeper.
“Invoice was a beautiful husband and father to his three youngsters; his household and associates will miss how he all the time made them snicker, and the generosity and love he shared with these round him.”
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He began his broadcast profession at Scotland’s Radio Clyde in 1978, becoming a member of the BBC as a reporter for the At the moment programme in 1986 earlier than turning into a reporter for BBC’s Breakfast Time two years later.
In 1990, Turnbull grew to become a correspondent for BBC Information and reported from greater than 30 nations, with notable tales he coated together with the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the OJ Simpson trial.
After transferring again to the UK, he grew to become one of many most important presenters on BBC Information 24, because it was referred to as again then.
Turnbull additionally labored for BBC Radio 5 Dwell, together with presenting Weekend Breakfast.
He joined BBC Breakfast in 2001 as a presenter alongside Sian Williams they usually labored collectively till 2012 when she departed after the programme moved from London to Salford.
The presenter co-anchored alongside Susanna Reid, with the pair presenting collectively till 2014, when Reid left the present to hitch ITV, and Turnbull’s different co-hosts included Louise Minchin and extra.
Recalling his most memorable moments from his breakfast profession as he signed off from the crimson couch in February 2016, he recalled “practically getting right into a combat with a ventriloquist’s dummy referred to as Bob” and carrying a jumper manufactured from canine hair.
“It was all proper, it was simply very heat and I could not get the stuff off me for weeks,” he stated.
He made quite a few tv appearances exterior of BBC Breakfast, together with because the presenter on BBC One’s Songs Of Reward.
In 2005, he competed as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing partnered with Karen Hardy, and was the seventh movie star voted off the present.
Different TV appearances embrace ITV’s Who Needs To Be A Millionaire? and By The Keyhole; the BBC’s Celeb Mastermind, Would I Lie To You?, Pointless Celebrities and Room 101, and he appeared within the dictionary nook for Channel 4’s Countdown.
In 2011 he appeared within the Physician Who episode The Marriage ceremony Of River Music wherein he performed himself.
His ardour for beekeeping led to the 2011 publication of his e-book The Unhealthy Beekeepers Membership, a humorous account of the ups and downs of an apiarist.
