Imagine having to write a goodbye letter to your family in case you didn't come home from work, like broadcaster Clive Myrie was once forced to do. Clive Myrie is a regular on our TV screens and as well as hosting the upcoming election night coverage alongside Laura Kuenssberg, viewers can currently see him travelling around the Caribbean in the BBC 's Clive Myrie's Caribbean Adventure. In the 15 part series, one of the countries 59 year old Clive visits is Jamaica, which is where his parents hail from.
His mum Lynne and dad Norris are Windrush generation and came to England in the early 1960s before settling in Bolton, where Clive was born. Lynne worked as a seamstress with high-profile fashion designer Mary Quant, while his father was a factory worker who made car batteries for British Leyland. Clive went to Hayward Grammar School and then studied Law at the University of Sussex, but chose to join the BBC in 1987 as a trainee local radio reporter on the graduate journalism programme.
Although his parents were initially dubious about his career choice, saying: "We didn't fly 6,000 miles to this freezing cold country for you to do that," they are now incredibly proud of his achievements. After working for BBC Local Radio as a reporter he became a BBC foreign correspondent in 1996 and has since reported from 80 different countries. During his illustrious career, Clive has been the BBC correspondent for Tokyo, LA, Asia, Paris, and Europe before being appointed as a BBC News pre.