Bill Turnbull: BBC Breakfast Presenter and Beekeeper Dies at 66

Bill Turnbull was an English broadcaster, best known as a presenter of BBC Breakfast. Born William Robert Jolyon Turnbull on January 25, 1956, in Guildford, Surrey, he was educated at Eton College and the universities of Edinburgh and Cardiff.

He joined the BBC in 1986 and became a news correspondent in 1990, including four years as Washington correspondent. He presented BBC Breakfast from 2001 until he left in 2016, and he took part in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2005. From 2016 he hosted a weekend show on Classic FM.

Turnbull was a passionate beekeeper and wrote the comic book The Bad Beekeepers Club. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017 and talked about it publicly in 2018. He married Sarah McCombie in 1988, and they had three children. He died at his home in Suffolk on August 31, 2022, at age 66.

Achievements: Presented BBC Breakfast (2001-2016), competed on Strictly Come Dancing (2005), hosted a Classic FM weekend show (2016).

Birth: January 25, 1956 - Guildford, Surrey, England.

Profession: Broadcaster and presenter.

Interesting Facts: He chose beekeeping as his specialist subject on Celebrity Mastermind. He raised awareness of prostate cancer after his own diagnosis.