John Leslie

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John Leslie

Profession: Former TV Presenter
Place/Date of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, 22 February 2020

The editors of the Evening Standard and Edinburgh Evening News decided to run Five’s blunder linking Leslie to the allegations in last night’s press. Today he appears splashed over the media’s front pages. ITV have given John Leslie time off the hit daytime show ’This Morning’ (that he co-hosts with Fern Britton) citing ’personnel reasons’, while he is in talks with his lawyers about how to react to the unproven claims.

There is no evidence to link him to the allegations made by Ulrika, and her lawyers have issued a statement saying that ’Miss Jonsson has never named [the man] nor has she ever had any intention of doing so. Furthermore, she has never provided details from which he could be identified"

John Leslie (37) is the former fiancé of Catherine Zeta-Jones and was the first Scottish presenter on Blue Peter in 1989. He has since made a name for himself presenting daytime television with shows like The Wheel of Fortune and more recently This Morning.

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Biography

Son of a biscuit salesman and a social worker - John Leslie Stott was born in 1965 in Edinburgh. He attended James Gillespie’s High School in the capital city - but found his height worked against him and he felt very much an ’outsider’. (He is now 6’5’’!)

He spent his early years in the choir and studied music on leaving school - culminating in a stint as a DJ in Copenhagen. But he really wanted to be on television - so used his time to send demo tapes of himself to nearly every regional net work in the hope of getting a break. He finally did on Yorkshire TV to host their all night pop show - The Music Box.

On the move to television he dropped his last name ’Stott’ as he was told that many people might have a problem pronouncing it - so became simply John Leslie. In 1989 he achieved national recognition - at least by the nations children, as he became the first Scottish presenter to join Blue Peter. Four years here saw him on the way to other shows such as Survivor and The Wheel of Fortune - and he finally landed the best daytime television job of all - co-hosting This Morning with Fern Britton on ITV.

John Leslie was the fiancé of Catherine Zeta Jones for a year and since then he has yet to meet the right woman. He has once said - "If I hadn’t got into television and was still living in Edinburgh I would probably be married by now but I don’t know if it would be to the right person"
April 2007