This is Y December 2020 Digital Edition

INTERVIEW
to Yorkshire’s Pride of Yorkshire award winner in 2019)
and the flypast. It takes you through our first meeting in
Endcliffe Park, Sheffield and how it all came about in the
space of just a few short weeks. I still get asked about the
flypast all the time, wherever I go, and I think it’s still lovely
that so many people came to watch it live in Sheffield and
millions saw it on TV.
A typical day for me is getting up at 3.11am to go to
work at BBC Breakfast. I do some filming on different
programmes, go to the gym or for a run and walk Winnie,
our cockapoo. I occasionally hit a few golf balls. Take the
kids to an after-school club. Read, watch the news and
prepare for BBC Breakfast. Eat cake and go to bed.
The BBC Breakfast team are so fantastic to work with and
to be a part of. They work incredibly hard to make the
programme as good as it can be every day - seven days a
week. It’s been great to cover some of the uplifting stories
in amongst all the gloom this year. The not so best bits
remain the time on the alarm clock when it goes off in the
morning. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to that.
My favourite things to do are playing football with my
kids. The two youngest have just got into it this year
and really enjoy having a kick about. I am a bit of a
golf obsessive and would like to get down to a scratch
handicap. I love being on the golf course without my
phone. It’s a great place to relax.
Playing golf in the (Welcome to Yorkshire in
partnership with SGH Sporting Events) Ian Woosnam
Senior Golf Classic at Ilkley Golf Club was brilliant. It
was the first time I had played at Ilkley and it really is a
wonderful course. The welcome was so warm and I was
only a couple over before I walloped one into the River
Wharfe. I would love to go back and play it again.
When life is back to normal I’m looking forward to
hearing the roar of the crowd at a football match.
We can’t wait to have people around again and are
looking forward to going on holiday, plus enjoying time
out for birthday meals with friends. Professionally, I’m
looking forward to not talking about coronavirus every
morning and I’m thinking about writing another book.
Remarkable People by Dan Walker is published by
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