Jeff Stelling

Robert Jeffrey "Jeff" Stelling (born 6 December 1955, Darlington) is an English sports journalist and sport television presenter, of Gillette Soccer Saturday for Sky Sports and other programming for the satellite broadcaster. In January 2009 he took over as host of the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown. Stelling was brought up in the north-east of England in Darlington. He attended West Hartlepool Grammar School for Boys (which became Hartlepool Sixt... more

Robert Jeffrey "Jeff" Stelling (born 6 December 1955, Darlington) is an English sports journalist and sport television presenter, of Gillette Soccer Saturday for Sky Sports and other programming for the satellite broadcaster. In January 2009 he took over as host of the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown. Stelling was brought up in the north-east of England in Darlington. He attended West Hartlepool Grammar School for Boys (which became Hartlepool Sixth Form College in the 1980s) on Blakelock Road in Brinkburn. After an apprenticeship on the local newspaper his first broadcasting position was as a reporter on Middlesbrough F.C. on Radio Tees. He was a sports presenter on London's LBC Radio Sportswatch programme in the early 1980s before moving to BBC Radio 2's weekend sports programme Sport On 2, covering the Los Angeles and Seoul Olympic games. He later spent time as a sports newsreader at TV-am, Channel 4, Eurosport and British Satellite Broadcasting before moving to Sky in 1992 to... less