Nationality British Parents Alan Clarke, Jane Harris Role Journalist | Name Gabriel Clarke | |
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Full Name Gabriel Sean Clarke Occupation Television journalistDocumentary film maker Movies The Man & Le Mans, Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, The Fight Of Their Lives Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary | ||
Ronaldo's Final Reckoning (EURO 2016)
Gabriel Clarke is an award-winning TV journalist and documentary filmmaker.
Contents
- Ronaldos Final Reckoning EURO 2016
- Breaking News Exclusive Interview Gabriel Clarke Terry Butcher and Torquil Jones talk Bobby Rob
- Personal life
- References
Clarke earned an English Literature degree from the University of London and began his journalistic career with local newspapers in Somerset and Bristol. He started his sports broadcasting career with Radio Trent in the East Midlands before moving into TV.
Clarke joined ITV Sport in 1991, as a reporter for the Saint and Greavsie television programme.
He has worked across ITV Sport's output covering European Championships, World Cups, Rugby World Cups, the Boat Race and World Championship boxing, and also presenting ITV's Football League highlights show Football League Extra.
He was a roving reporter with the England national football team at the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup, and UEFA Euro 2012.
Clarke has been named the Royal Television Society Sports News Reporter of the Year three times: 2001, 2002 and 2005. He is also the winner of the Royal Television Society awards for Sports Feature (2002, 2005) and Sports Creative Sequence (2002).
Clarke also reported from contestant Eoghan Quigg's temporary hometown of Derry during the final of series 5 of The X Factor.
Breaking News | Exclusive Interview: Gabriel Clarke, Terry Butcher and Torquil Jones talk Bobby Rob
Personal life
He is the son of Jane Harris and film director Alan Clarke (1935–90), whose work includes Scum, Made in Britain and The Firm. Clarke Snr., an Everton F.C. supporter named his son after Scotland and Everton forward Jimmy Gabriel.