About Matt Baker
Matthew James Baker (born 23 December 1977) is a British television presenter. He co-presented the children's television show Blue Peter from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's Countryfile since 2009 and The One Show from 2011 to 2020, with Alex Jones. Baker was born on 23 December 1977 at Easington in County Durham where his father ran a newsagent's shop, and his parents had a smallholding in the village. Matt attended Easington Village School until age ten when his parents bought a farm west of Durham, which they moved into and renovated. From the age of five, Baker was a keen dancer and began competing as a gymnast whilst at school. In the late 1990s, as a drama student at Queen Margaret University College, Baker worked as an entertainer, and with a 1970s comedy disco-dancing revival.
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