Maddie Moate

Madeleine Moate (born 26 July 1988)[1][2][3] is a British television presenter, actress, director, producer and YouTube film maker[4] best known for presenting the CBeebies series Maddie's Do You Know?[5] She was awarded the Best Presenter BAFTA at the Children's BAFTAs 2017.[6] Moate is a science communicator but studied theatre, film and television at Bristol University.[7][8] On 15 February 2018, she became engaged to operation ouch presenter Greg Foot. They currently live together near Tonbridge in Kent. [9]

Maddie Moate
Born (1988-07-26) 26 July 1988
Norfolk, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materBristol University
Occupation
  • Television presenter ,
  • YouTube, filmmaker, Singer
Years active2011–present
Known forMaddie's Do You Know?
Partner(s)Greg Foot
Websitewww.maddiemoate.com

Early life

Born in Norfolk in July 1988, Moate grew up in Witney, Oxfordshire, attending Henry Box School where she became head girl and the Jill Stew School of Dance and Dramascope. She went on to study drama at the university of Bristol.[10]

YouTube and online content

Moate developed and presented The App Show, an online comedy series on LadyGeek, with Nicola Hume from 2011 to 2012.[11] The series, which attracted over 850,000 views, discussed everyday tech issues from a female perspective and was sponsored by Nokia.[12]

In 2012, she presented Newsburst on O2 Guru TV. The series attracted more than four million views.[13] The same year, Moate presented Home of the Future for Channel 4.[14] Between 2012 and 2013, Moate made three films for Samsung. The Samsung SSD Angels videos attracted 1.5 million views.[15] Moate presented a series of films for Intel and Argos, for use in their Superhuman Academy and Smarten Up campaigns.[16] Moate presented the online videos for Sony Xperia Z5 in September 2015, whilst in Berlin.[17]

Since 2014, Moate has been the lead presenter of BBC Earth Unplugged, a BBC produced channel on YouTube with over 480,000 subscribers.[18][19] The series garnered the notice of BBC America, who compiled the highlights to make a one off television programme, It's a Mad Mad Maddie World!.

In March 2015, she released a video The Real Me (Perioral Dermatitis) talking about her personal struggles with perioral dermatitis in the hope that "talking openly about it could actually be a big support to lots of other people".[20] In September 2015, she released a follow up video titled: Maddie Moate – Hydromol Ointment 3 in 1 Regime, explaining that she had been misdiagnosed and that she actually has (or had had) under treated eczema.[21]

At the beginning of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic Maddie Moate teamed up with her partner Greg Foot to create 'Let's go Live' a YouTube livestream with different themes each week. Each one is science based and includes suggestions for hands on activities that could be done during the lockdown period. Themes included; Dino week, Brilliant bodies and Theme parks. Some special episodes are still scheduled for release over the Christmas period.

Television and radio

Moate has been the resident technology expert on BBC 5 Live Saturday Edition since 2014.[22] She frequently features on BBC 5 Live's Big Share,[23] Good Morning Britain and BBC Breakfast.[24] Since 2016, Moate presents a factual series for CBeebies, entitled Maddie's Do You Know?, which has an average audience of 328,000.[25][26] A second series was commissioned by CBeebies, produced by Sarah Trigg, and shown in 2018.[26]

She won the BAFTA Children's Awards in 2017, in the category of presenter.[27] A third and fourth series have since been released in 2019 and 2020 respectively.[28] In 2018, she joined the BBC team on Springwatch, hosting the "Springwatch Wild Academy" aimed at schools and children.[29]

References
  1. Moate, Maddie (25 July 2014). "Guys its my birthday tomorrow...#justsaying".
  2. "Girls head for top fringe festival". Witney Gazette. Identifies age in 2008 to support DoB. Retrieved 23 September 2020.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. "Madeleine MOATE - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  4. "Maddie Moate". IMDb. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  5. Kent, Sara-Aisha (5 February 2020). "CBeebies star Maddie Moate left in stitches after being sent rude drawing". mirror. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  6. "Children's in 2017". awards.bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  7. George, Martin. "Science YouTuber Maddie Moate on the importance of being curious".
  8. "YouTube's Maddie Moate Tells Kids: 'Get Curious!'".
  9. "CBeebies star Maddie Moate announces engagement!". HELLO!. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  10. "Girls head for top fringe festival". Witney Gazette. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  11. ladygeektv (28 June 2010). "Lady Geek TV – The App Show – Episode #1" – via YouTube.
  12. "Lady Geek TV – YouTube – Maddie Moate". 7 April 2016.
  13. "Technology – O2 Guru TV – YouTube" – via YouTube.
  14. "Home of the Future – Channel 4 – Maddie Moate". 7 April 2016.
  15. "Technology – Samsung SSD Angels – YouTube" – via YouTube.
  16. Intel Superhuman Academy (7 September 2015). "Choosing the right technology for study" – via YouTube.
  17. Sony Xperia GB (19 September 2015). "The Xperia™ Z5, the world's best camera in a smartphone is put to the test by Maddie Moate in Berlin" – via YouTube.
  18. "BBC Earth Unplugged" – via YouTube.
  19. "Maddie Presents 'Earth Unplugged' – YouTube" – via YouTube.
  20. "Vlogger Maddie Moate shares her struggle with Perioral Dermatitis – ShinyShiny". 11 March 2015.
  21. Hydromol (2 September 2015), Maddie Moate – Hydromol Ointment 3-in-1 regime, retrieved 24 February 2018
  22. "Saturday Edition – BBC 5 Live Radio – Maddie Moate". 7 April 2016.
  23. "The Big Share – BBC 5 Live Radio – Maddie Moate". 7 April 2016.
  24. "BBC Breakfast – BBC 1 – Maddie Moate". 7 April 2016.
  25. "Do You Know? – CBeebies – BBC". Archived from the original on 7 September 2017.
  26. "CBeebies commissions second series of Do You Know?".
  27. "Winners Announced for the British Academy Children's Awards in 2017". bafta.org.
  28. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6428102/
  29. "Springwatch – Springwatch Wild Academy – BBC Two". BBC.
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