Tom Bradby

Tom Bradby: ‘The Princes are my least favourite subject in the world’

News at Ten anchor Tom Bradby is happier breaking stories than making headlines – despite that interview with Meghan Markle

Tom Bradby on his own struggle with mental health: “I was jogging along in life and I fell off a cliff.”

Saturday May 8 2021, 12.01am, The Times

Tom Bradby does not want to talk about his friend Prince Harry. And he doesn’t want to talk about the fallout from his 2019 documentary in Africa in which he famously asked Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, whether she was OK. Or the rumoured subsequent rift with Prince William, whom he’s known for 20 years, for – according to the Daily Mail – “taking sides” with Harry “in the bitter transatlantic war”. He doesn’t want to talk about any of this, even though he would “love to, of course, and it would be easy for me to say something”, because Tom Bradby, who always turns things into an alphabetised list, a) knows that the papers will comb over his words and look for a morsel to explode into a headline; b) doesn’t want to fry his brain walking back into the raging inferno of news about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex; c) doesn’t want anything to distract from his full-time job as the anchor of ITV’s News at Ten, which he has done extremely well since he took it on in 2015, revving up the viewing figures by 15 per cent to 2 million …read the full article on the The Saturday Times Magazine