Faulds Wood, Lynn
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| born on | 25 March 1948 at 18:10 (= 6:10 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Glasgow, Scotland, 55n53, 4w15 | ||||
| Timezone | GDT h1e (is daylight saving time) | ||||
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Biography
Scottish television presenter, journalist, and health campaigner who hosted British television programme Watchdog from 1985 to 1993 with co-presenter, and husband, John Stapleton. In 2014, Faulds Wood returned to Watchdog, with a new daytime BBC One series, Watchdog Test House, which she co-presented with Sophie Raworth.
In the 1990s, Faulds Wood moved to ITV's World In Action where she achieved their highest audience with a programme investigating GP training in cancer symptoms, Doctor Knows Best, which had 10.2 million viewers. Her investigation into bowel cancer, Bobby Moore & Me, had 6.5 million viewers and 28,000 letters. She also helped to create the world's first evidence-based guide to symptoms of her cancer, officially adopted by the Department of Health in 2000.
Faulds Wood married British journalist and television presenter John Stapleton in 1977; they had a son, Nick, born in 1987. The couple lived in St Margarets, London. She survived both advanced bowel and skin cancer. In late December 2016, Faulds Wood declined the offer of an MBE in the New Year Honours. On 24 April 2020 she died after a stroke at age 72.
Events
- Relationship : Marriage 1977 (John Stapleton)
- Family : Change in family responsibilities 1987 (Birth of son Nick)
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1991 (Bowel cancer)
- Health : Begin remission 1991 (Remission from bowel cancer)
Source Notes
Pulsar No.9 Summer/1992 quotes B.C.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Bowel and skin, remission)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Stroke
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (43 years with John Stapleton)
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted (John Stapleton)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One son)
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Stroke)
- Vocation : Entertainment : News journalist/ Anchor
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality ("Watchdog")
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (Health campaigner)
- 1948 births
- Birthday 25 March
- Birthplace Glasgow, SCOT (UK)
- Sun 4 Aries
- Moon 12 Libra
- Asc 20 Virgo
- 2020 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Stroke
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Entertainment : News journalist/ Anchor
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social
