Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard (born 11 December 1974) is an English television presenter and journalist who is currently the co-presenter of ITV's This Morning (2024–present), alongside Cat Deeley.
Shephard was a main presenter on the now defunct breakfast programme GMTV and co-hosted the ITV breakfast show Good Morning Britain alongside Susanna Reid and Kate Garraway from 2014 until 2024. He has also hosted shows such as The Krypton Factor (2009–2010), Tipping Point (2012–present) and Ninja Warrior UK (2015–2019, 2022).
In 2012, along with Helen Skelton, he welcomed the athletes of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Trafalgar Square as part of their homecoming parade.
Read more...The December 11, 1974 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 344 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
If you were born on this day, you are 50 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 271 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in 93 days. You have lived for 18,534 days, or about 444,822 hours, or about 26,689,339 minutes, or about 1,601,360,340 seconds.
Date: 12 December 1974
Amer Com of Internatl Press Inst on Dec 11 announces 10 US newsmen will be making 3-wk study tour of Japan from March 3 to 23; visit is being arranged by Japanese Editors and Publishers Assn for Japanese IPI com (S)
Date: 12 December 1974
Lee Hills, chmn and chief exec of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, is planning ad and circulation rate increases in range of 10% in '75; notes that many of co's newspapers are planning new format and reduced page sizes to combat increase in price of newsprint; cites cases of Miami Herald and Phila Inquirer; pres Alvah H Chapman Jr comments (S)
Date: 11 December 1974
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Washington Star-News on Dec 10 announces that 560 employes, including reporters and editors, will work 4-day wk for 4 days' pay, as alternative to large-scale layoffs; becomes 1st paper in US to have 4-day wk; plan will go into effect after Christmas; Joe L Allbritton, publisher, makes announcement (M)
Date: 12 December 1974
ed on People's Republic of China's refusal to admit journalists from Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea and Israel to preview exhibit of Chinese archeological pieces at Washington Natl Gallery; holds that China's behavior goes far beyond its dispute with Taiwan, becoming attempt to use press accreditation as ideological weapon against any country upon which Chinese policymakers look with disfavor
Date: 12 December 1974
By LESLEY OELSNERSpecial to The New York Times
John D Ehrlichman, under cross-examination by Watergate prosecution, concedes that he did not tell Nixon about break-in by White House plumbers unit, which he supervised, at office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding
Date: 11 December 1974
NYC Police present 29 civilians with awards for outstanding acts of heroism; recipients include John Golding, 9, Joseph Golding, 11, Timothy McNellis, 14, who pursued and showed police hiding place of robbery suspect, Rev Albert Lorenzo Wingfield, Daily News reporter Cass Yanzi, lifeguard Michael Cordes and Police Acad candidate Salvatore D'Angelo, 20 (M)
Date: 11 December 1974
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
FCC Adm Law Judge James F Tierney grants WPIX Inc renewal of its license to operate on Channel 11 and disqualifies application of challenging group, Forum Communications Inc, which has contested license in proceedings that have lasted over 5 yrs; action is climax to hearing that has been widely regarded by communications attys as test case of FCC's standards for broadcast performance when station licenses are challenged by citizens' groups; decision reverses recommendations of FCC Broadcast Bur in Aug '73 that WPIX should be disqualified as licensee for engaging in questionable news practices and misrepresentations to FCC; Frum pres Lawrence K Grossman will appeal decision; WPIX exec vp Levitt J Pope does not confirm repts that co's legal expenses in defending license exceeded $1-million; among those who testified in support of WPIX were Mayor Beame (then Controller), NYS Atty Gen Louis J Lefkowitz and former Mayor Robert F Wagner (M)