Philippa Tomson

Pip Tomson
Pip Tomson presenting The Best Secretary on Tyneside Award September 2009
Born (1977-08-30) 30 August 1977
York, England
Occupation Journalist and presenter

Philippa (Pip) Tomson (born 30 August 1977) is an English journalist and presenter. She is a news correspondent for Good Morning Britain on ITV Breakfast.

Career

At the age of 18 she trained as a journalist and later became the chief reporter for the Express & Star in Wolverhampton.[1][2]

In March 2002 she joined ITV News Central on ITV Central – newsreading bulletins, co-presenting alongside Bob Warman and reporting in the West Midlands region.[1][3][4] In addition, she worked as a freelancer with Central Extra on ITV Central, ITV News London on ITV London, the ITV News Channel and Westcountry Live on ITV Westcountry.[3]

On 25 September 2006, she became a co-presenter of ITV News Tyne Tees on ITV Tyne Tees.[3] On 2 February 2009 she was redeployed as the weather presenter and a fill-in presenter of ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround for ITV Tyne Tees & Border.[5][6][7]

From August 2008 until July 2011, she was an occasional co-presenter of Tony Horne in the Morning on Metro Radio.[8] In April 2009, she guest co-presented on Real Radio North East alongside former ITV Tyne Tees colleague Jonathan Morrell.

From February 2009 until August 2011, she was a columnist for the Sunday Sun.[9][10] She has worked as a features writer for the Daily Mail.[11]

In November and December 2009, Tomson appeared as a weather presenter for GMTV,[12][13] and on 29 December 2010 for Daybreak on ITV Breakfast.

On 1 May 2012 she joined Sky News as a freelance news presenter and reporter.[14]

In 2013, she returned to Daybreak (now Good Morning Britain) where she is a news correspondent. For a time she was also a reporter for ITV News London.

Awards

Charity interests

Tomson is a member of the Cash for Kids charity.[15] She was also the 2008 vice-president for the Tsunami Fund Raising charity,[16] when she helped to raise money for students at the Ban Kamala School, devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

She is a patron of Someone Cares and in 2009 took part in the Great North Run to raise funds and awareness for the charity.[17] In 2010 she ran the event for Brysons Animal Refuge and Ark on the Edge animal sanctuary,[18] while in 2012 she ran again in aid of Ark on the Edge and also the Children's Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne.[19]

References

  1. 1 2 Philippa Tomson Zoom Info, 26 September 2012
  2. 1 2 Philippa Tomson Profile Card Mission Sports Management
  3. 1 2 3 Philippa Tomson Official Website
  4. ↑ Philippa Tomson The Birmingham Post, 1 August 2006
  5. ↑ Tyne Tees news presenters axed in cost cuts ChronicleLive, 3 December 2008
  6. ↑ Everyone is interested in the weather Liz Lamb, The Free Library, 16 January 2009
  7. ↑ Full Border TV Lookaround line-up revealed Archived 19 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine. News & Star, 17 January 2009
  8. ↑ Stalker hell of TV's Philippa Tomson Pauline Holt, Sunday Sun, 24 August 2008
  9. ↑ Sunday Sun – Columnists – Philippa Tomson Sunday Sun, 2 February 2009
  10. ↑ Farewell Friends Sunday Sun, 28 August 2011
  11. ↑ Philippa Tomson Daily Mail
  12. ↑ Weathergirl Philippa Tomson set to go national Sunday Sun, 1 November 2009
  13. ↑ Travel's forecast Sunday Sun, 1 November 2009
  14. ↑ News – My News Philippa Tomson, 28 April 2012
  15. ↑ Metro Radio – Cash for Kids charity, Metro Radio
  16. ↑ Our History Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir
  17. ↑ Our Patron – Philippa Tomson Someone Cares
  18. ↑ Relieved to finish Great North Run Sunday Sun, 26 September 2010
  19. ↑ Car Torque with ...Sky News presenter Philippa Tomson The Northern Echo, 17 November 2012
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