Full Name Daniel Wootton Name Dan Wootton | Role Journalist | |
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Born 2 March 1983 (age 41) ( 1983-03-02 ) Lower Hutt, New Zealand Occupation Journalist, broadcaster Profiles | ||
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Dan Wootton (born 2 March 1983) is a New Zealand journalist and broadcaster, best known for being a show business journalist for the News of the World and The Sun newspapers, twice 'Showbiz Reporter of the Year', and Entertainment presenter on the ITV Breakfast shows Lorraine and Daybreak.
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Since 2015, he's been a regular contributor and panellist on Big Brother's Bit on the Side.
Biography
Wootton grew up in Lower Hutt, a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand and attended Naenae College and Victoria University, where he obtained a media studies and political science degree. He started his career as a journalist in his native New Zealand, writing an entertainment column for the Wellington-based broadsheet newspaper The Dominion Post and was also a reporter for the daily television show Good Morning. He came to the United Kingdom when he was 21, and after a spell working for trade magazines, he found a job with Broadcast magazine.
Wootton joined the News of the World TV team in February 2007, becoming TV editor in November 2007, and show-business editor in November 2008 until its closure in July 2011, when he then became a columnist and feature writer for the Daily Mail and editor-at-large for Now magazine. In 2013, Wootton joined The Sun newspaper launching a new column on Sundays. He was made editor of the newspaper's Bizarre column in 2014, and promoted to associate editor (showbiz and TV) in 2016. He was named 'Showbiz reporter of the year' at the 2010 and 2013 British Press Awards.
Wootton also makes appearances as a show business presenter on ITV's morning show Lorraine and has been a guest on BBC Radio 5 Live.