BBC's Clive Myrie 'pleased' with job but admits parents thought he'd 'made a mess' (Image: BBC) Clive Myrie is one of the BBC's chief news presenters and correspondents. However, the 59-year-old has confessed he left his parents unhappy when he initially announced his chosen profession. Initially, he set out for a career in law after studying he subject at Sussex University.
But in 1988 gained a place on the BBC 's prestigious journalism trainee scheme where he has since gone on to cover stories around the Isreal-Hamas war and even the like of the Huw Edwards scandal. When he broke the news to his parents that he would no longer be keeping criminals behind bars, he said they took the news terribly. In an interview with the Radio Times , he was heard saying they thought he had made a huge "mess".
He said: "My parents were convinced that I’d made a big old mess of my career choice, they’re now very proud of me." Today he is a multi-award-winning journalist and one of the network's most experienced foreign correspondents. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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