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THEAs of Tuesday, Alex Beresford had about 68,000 people following him on Instagram. On Wednesday morning it was almost double. As the man who helped bring down Piers Morgan on breakfast television, interest is likely to grow.
He may not be a household name, he is one of those people on television that you recognize without knowing why.
Beresford, 40, was born in Bristol. Her mother is white and from Great Britain, and her father is black and from Guyana.
He began his television career in 2004 working for ITV’s regional news programs in the West Country, initially as an operator for Autocue. In 2005 he retrained as a weather presenter and joined the national rotation in 2007.
Beginning in 2012, she began hosting the weather on ITV Daybreak’s breakfast show, replacing Laura Tobin. When replaced by Good Morning Britain, Beresford kept popping up and has become a familiar part of the team.
In 2019, he powerfully intervened in a debate on knife crime, screaming through the studio as a guest began with a line of “build more prisons.” “It doesn’t work… listen, I have grown up in some of these communities that you are talking about; prison is not an impediment. “
Ten days later the news came that Beresford’s cousin had been stabbed to death. He later presented an ITV documentary titled Knife Crime and Me, in which he traveled around the UK to better understand the issues.
Beresford has always had a funny side, and in 2018 he was one of the famous ice skaters on ITV’s Dancing on Ice. Ahead of disco week, he featured GMB weather in a white suit inspired by John Travolta’s Saturday night fever, with flares and oversized lapels.
He was good in Dancing on Ice, but not good enough and was eliminated, with double irony, in a fairy tale week after acting in Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over.
One thing was clear to viewers: Beresford was a fit man, something he celebrates and takes seriously. A month ago he posted a photo of himself doing push-ups, shirtless and muscular. He accompanied him with a message on how to emerge stronger in body and mind after 10 days of self-isolation.
Certainly that mental strength was on the horizon when he took on Morgan on Monday, but it’s not the first time he’s shown he’s not easy to convince. In 2017 he stood in front of Morgan because it was the moment of his forecast. “Go back to your weather box, now,” Morgan said. “I’m not going to do that now that you’ve said it,” Beresford replied, between tight laughs.
In 2019, Beresford walked off the set after Morgan jokingly objected to him joining a debate about the game, saying, “You know what, dude, you’re making the weather … your job is the weather.” .
When Beresford came out, Morgan said, “Look at him, little drama queen … go ahead, go ahead.”
The shoe was on the other foot this week when Beresford criticized Morgan for continuing to “trash” the Duchess of Sussex. After Morgan left, Beresford called his behavior “pathetic” and “devilish” and later tweeted: “I wish I had the privilege of sitting on the fence. In order to do that, I would have to strip myself of my identity and that is not something I can do. It is not one of our places to separate claims of racism to make ourselves feel more comfortable. “
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