Biography

George Alagiah is a newsreader and journalist who joined the BBC in 1989, working as a reporter and correspondent. He first joined Six O'Clock News (1984) as a newsreader in 2003, and became a much-recognised face of BBC news, also presenting slots in BBC News at Ten O'Clock (2000) and One O'Clock News (1986), among others.

George has occasionally appeared in dramas, playing a newsreader, including Discovery: Part 2 (2017) and Bigfooting (2009). Born in Sri Lanka, he shared his love of Sri Lankan food in Sri Lanka (2018), and has appeared on television as himself in programmes including Episode dated 19 August 2019 (2019) and Out of Africa: Heroes and Icons (2005).
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His parents moved to Ghana in 1961 so George therefore had his primary education there. He went to secondary school in Portsmouth, England however. He is a graduate of Durham University.

He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to journalism.

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His family pronounced the surname Alagiah as "Uller-hiya", but George gave up correcting people and the accepted pronunciation for his name was "Aller-giya".

He was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2014 but lived a further nine years.