William Robert Jolyon Turnbull was a British journalist and presenter.
Bill Turnbull and Fiona Phillips’ BBC One series Holding Back the Years, which featured advice on aging gracefully, aired 10 episodes in March 2018, right after his cancer diagnosis became public. He maintained a strong sense of optimism and was very encouraged by the encouragement got from friends, coworkers, and well-wishers whiles alive.
Bill Turnbull children: Flora Turnbull, Henry Turnbull, Will Turnbull
In the London Borough of Hackney in March 1988, Turnbull wed Sarah McCombie.
Henry and Will, the couple’s two boys, were born in October 1988 and October 1989, respectively, along with Flora, a daughter (born August 1991). After BBC Breakfast moved to Salford in 2012, Turnbull and his wife left their home in Buckinghamshire and moved to Rainow, Cheshire.
Before becoming a correspondent for BBC News in 1990, Turnbull joined the BBC in 1986 as a reporter for the Today show and in 1988 as a reporter for Breakfast Time. He reported from more than thirty locations, including a four-year term as a Washington Correspondent located in the USA, covering a wide range of local and international issues.
He covered a number of significant American stories in this capacity, including the O. J. Simpson murder trial and the Monica Lewinsky affair that toppled Bill Clinton’s administration.
