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Presenter, Sky News. 5pm Fri, Sat, Sun. Former Channel 5 Chief Correspondent. Also travel writing ✍🏻 & big planes ✈️ Enquiries info @knightayton .co.uk

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Jonathan Samuels
8 months
My new permanent home: News hour Friday, Saturday, Sunday 5pm ⁦ @SkyNews ⁩: News, debate, sport, weather - join me!
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They are so polite in Hong Kong someone just randomly started holding their brolly over me as I was live! @SkyNews #HongKongProtests
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Sunrise over the beaches of Normandy exactly 75 years after more than 150,000 troops risked their lives for our freedom. @skynews #dday75
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5 years
This is what happens when you trust your wife and kids to get a sprinkler for the dried out lawn. 🙄🦄
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2 years
I’ve no idea who is crocheting post boxes for Ukraine round my way, but I love them for it. 🧶 🇺🇦 “Letters live in peace”… “Mail love not war”.
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2 years
This is incredible. I’ve just been told by @kiraincongress nearly 300 #Ukraine parliamentarians just met secretly IN PERSON for only ten minutes to pass crucial votes. Many travelled across the country. Stunning bravery and the most remarkable message to #Putin about democracy.
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4 years
@Philip_Ellis Did you remove his pants in the vestry and he remove your vest in the pantry?
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4 years
Expect big things over the next two weeks people... #selfisolating
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2 years
Shankill Road, Belfast.
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2 years
Can I just say I was into @BigJetTVLIVE before they were famous.
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4 years
A sad day as @skynews in Westminster says farewell to @lewis_goodall His leaving gift? Two egg cups for a soft OR hard Brexit. 🥚
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5 years
BREAKING: Anne Sacoolas - American involved in the crash which killed Harry Dunn - DOES NOT have diplomatic immunity - Foreign Office
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4 years
When this is over we will be a nation of overweight boozers who have the most immaculate gardens. #coronavirus
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3 years
I might keep my longer hair... I think it suits me.
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4 years
@OwenJones84 Hi. It was a device used by our climate change correspondent and her video editor who was posing the question “how green will the budget be..?” Admittedly quite subtle!!
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4 years
9am champagne breakfast. #kidsbackatschool
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2 years
Breaking: Boris Johnson met Sue Gray for a private meeting to discuss her long-awaited report into #Partygate . More on @SkyNews with @SamCoatesSky
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4 years
BREAKING: Met Police say the officer who fell from her horse during Black Lives Matter protests in London is currently in hospital, receiving treatment for her injuries which are not life-threatening. The horse, uninjured, made its own way back to the stables nearby.
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Jonathan Samuels
4 years
Always good speaking to @ProfKarolSikora on @skynews This morning he described the government's new tracing app as "reverse tinder". Brilliant. #Coronavirus
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Jonathan Samuels
5 years
If an attractive woman had been setting up the podium and I tweeted #hotsoundgirl and talked about her tight t-shirt and winking at the camera I’d be slated on social media. #doublestandards
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5 years
When #hotsoundguy goes viral [tap to expand]
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@sanyaburgess Travelling off beak?
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Jonathan Samuels
8 months
15 glorious years married to @laurabundock … slap up dinner at @TheWolseley to celebrate. ❤️
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4 years
Such a struggle sometimes to get my wife to look up from her phone when I’m talking... 👀 📞
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3 years
The hugely professional and unflappable @SophyRidgeSky finally loses it on air! (Or should that be ‘on hair’) #shaggier ✂️ @SkyNews
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9 months
A thought today for The Hon. Mr Justice Goss. I’ve witnessed how he has presided over this horrific trial with remarkable skill, dedication and sensitivity. We should be proud of our justice system. #LucyLetby
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2 years
“Downing It Street” Clever headline in @MetroUKNews on Number 10 ‘bring your own booze’ party.
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
I will hugely miss my handover chats in the break with the legend that is @SkyNewsGamal - off to great things... what a star he is.
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
Hair is the news... roll on April 12th ✂️
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Jonathan Samuels
4 years
The perils of live broadcasting. @skynewsmichelle really is a great gull. @SkyNews
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
My thoughts and prayers with @BorisJohnson who is being grilled by my wife @laurabundock today. My hard earned advice: play it straight and don’t answer back. You’ve got this PM... 🙏🏻
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3 years
Me and my squad. Come on @GarethSouthgate and #ENG #EURO2020
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2 years
Rumbled by the kids. #FathersDay
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Jonathan Samuels
6 years
After 2 years on Sunrise it’s time to stop the 3.30am alarms! Time to go solo but I’ll hugely miss these two... (pic is a typical morning - @SkyJacquie behaving impeccably, @skysarahjane bossing us about 😉) #sunrise
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2 years
If you’ve not experienced the fun that is #duvetknowitschristmas then please take a look. Joyful British Christmas silliness at its best @rhodri 🎄 🛌
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@rhodri BOOM. (Third bedroom, apparently) http://t.co/GMjj7rUoc7
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I’m ignoring all social distancing guidelines at work with a colleague @Laurabundock #Wife
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3 years
Time for support bubbles
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3 years
Surely no one is STILL doing dry January?
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3 years
Being a TV News anchor right now is like playing roulette... will it happen on my shift? PLEASE let it happen on my shift.... 📺 🇺🇸
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Jonathan Samuels
4 years
Spare a thought for my kids who are just about to learn their broadcast journalist parents are key workers and they WILL be going to school after all.
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Jonathan Samuels
5 years
My next door neighbour Ziggy knows the importance of #democracy . He fled Russia and - via Palestine - arrived in the UK 72 years ago. 3 generations at the polling station. #GetOutAndVote #EuropeanElection2019
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3 years
These are really tough times. But if you are looking for a little light relief over the next few weeks, you at least have this to look forward to. Hair we go again.. 🙄 #lockdown3
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
I’ve agreed to continue negotiations with my wife about clearing the garden leaves, following the passing of yesterday’s deadline. 🍁
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Jonathan Samuels
4 years
When you text your wife at work to try and help her out 🙄
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3 years
What a night for @SkyEnda to do his first overnight presenting shift on @SkyNews … he gets to do AN EXTRA HOUR! I’ll hand over the chair at midnight #GMT #clocksgoback 🕰
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Jonathan Samuels
8 years
Other press allowed to an event with Jeremy Corbyn but not Sky News because "you'll ask him about the leadership"...
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3 years
If the guest producer of my programme at 5pm doesn’t have the exclusive with #JackieWeaver I’ll be removing people from the room. @skynews
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Jonathan Samuels
5 years
More than 100,000 fill Victoria park in #hongkong meaning demonstrators spill into streets... organisers hope at least 500,000 will turn up “cheers for Hong Kong” they chant. Peaceful for now.
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Jonathan Samuels
2 years
Happy Christmas from @laurabundock and me. (We’d offer to give you a hand in the kitchen but we started on the fizz a bit early…) 🌲🎅🏻 🦃
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4 years
What a fantastic initiative from Joe Wicks @thebodycoach getting the nation’s kids and parents working out daily on @YouTube at 9am while the schools are shut. Nearly 1m joined in...very impressive. #PEwithJoe 💪🏻 #coronavirus
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
Will any schools still be open by Monday? Healthy kids in miserable, arguably pointless self isolation across the country.
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
So delighted to get this text from my dad. #vaccine
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Jonathan Samuels
6 years
Morning from Dover where we are live as @LewisPugh wakes up on his support boat preparing for the final 2.5 mile swim to complete his epic challenge of swimming the LENGTH of the English Channel. Full coverage all day on @SkyNews #Sunrise
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Jonathan Samuels
4 years
“Hair is the news” roll on July ... ✂️ #haircut
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Jonathan Samuels
5 years
BREAKING: organisers of today’s rally - The Civil Human Rights Front - say at least 1.7 million people attended. #HongKong . Makes it 2nd largest demo since protests began. @skynews #HongKongProtests
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“To slow the virus down you have to act as if you already have it” Brilliant little video explainer what we need to do
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4 years
Just finished my first Christmas jigsaw in less than an hour. Which must be a record. It says 5-8 years on the box.
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3 years
Spent quite a while cursing technology as I fruitlessly tapped my work pass at the door in Millbank (Westminster’s media studios). As a queue formed behind me I slowly realised I had got out of the lift on the wrong floor and was trying to get into the BBC.
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Jonathan Samuels
4 years
We’re finally out! To an 80’s night...
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4 years
From my own mother as I’m on live television... #lockdown
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Jonathan Samuels
4 years
@piersmorgan @BorisJohnson Is it that the govt can only bring in tougher measures AFTER the public has been given the opportunity - and failed - to do it the nice way? Bring in the tough measures without giving the opportunity to voluntarily do them could lead to social unrest? Just a theory...
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Jonathan Samuels
5 years
The heating’s gone back on. There it is, I’ve said it.
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
Are late-night vaccination centres a shot in the dark?
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
Gents, some advice: she’s the ultimate inquisitor so don’t be a “clever dick” and for goodness sake don’t try and be “funny”. @laurabundock
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4 years
This. Is. Terrifying.
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Jonathan Samuels
2 years
Millions skipping meaIs because of the cost of living crisis; thousands being killed in Ukraine, Deborah James dying of cancer…I could not care less about Vardy & Rooney. Pathetic.
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Jonathan Samuels
6 years
“And finally Laura, shall I pick up the kids later or can you?”
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Stand by ‘Straya, we’re comin’ for ya. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 ☀️
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6 years
At 6am on @skynews #Sunrise the nation gets behind @England for tonight’s huge game, the latest on the heroic #Thailand rescue and @POTUS at the @nato summit. Join us! @skynewsSam @SkyJacquie with the footy buildup and @SkyIsobel with the weather #WaistcoatWednesday
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3 years
Barber has just booked me in as his first customer back - 8am on April 12 🙏🏻 (I’m expecting a brass band and dancing girls to welcome me) ✂️
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3 years
Full marks to ⁦ @JonAshworth ⁩ for dealing with umbrella issues and at the SAME TIME rescuing an expensive tv light - all live on ⁦ @RidgeOnSunday ⁩ ⁦ @SkyNews ⁩ ☔️ 💨
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6 years
A Downing Street spokesman: “This afternoon, the Prime Minister accepted the resignation of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. His replacement will be announced shortly. The Prime Minister thanks Boris for his work.” #brexit
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Jonathan Samuels
3 years
There are a lot of jokes going round about the #suezcanal If I were you, I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole.
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3 years
I’ve had my locks lopped and unlocked locks as lockdown unlocks. What a day.
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4 years
Christmas lunch... during the break... 🦃 @SkyNews
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4 years
Final @Qantas flight of a #747 #Queenoftheskies and a suitable tribute. #QF7474 #avgeek
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2 years
Just watched ep 1 of #TheNewsreader Ridiculous egotistical presenters, silly off camera arguments, an obsession with hair and make up, unnecessary rows over running orders. It was spot on. 🤣
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6 years
“It’s not really about the swimming” but about the oceans - campaigner @LewisPugh tells me as he gets ready for the last 4km of his epic #TheLongSwim from Lands End to Dover @skynews 🏊🏻‍♂️
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2 years
Being told to smarten up by my colleague @laurabundock
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Jonathan Samuels
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Farewell Kimbo! Off to something exciting soon but saying goodbye to viewers and colleagues today. You’ll be missed. X @SkyNews @KimberleyeLeo
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2 years
Sad to see #Neighbours wrap up. This was one of my favourite filming days for @SkyNews . I even got to meet @MissKymmie77 (and yes, I gave back the sign!)
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3 years
I fought the urge to open the wine til 6.36pm. I think that’s perfectly acceptable.
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2 years
COVID-19: Officials clarify Omicron hospitalisation figures as Dominic Raab gets numbers wrong twice on morning broadcast round
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5 years
On #Sunrise I’m in Normandy for the 75th anniversary of the greatest amphibious assault of all time. Join us from 6am @skynews #dday75
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3 years
Is there any call centre in the country not experiencing higher than usual call volumes... is this now just a normal part of the recorded message?
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6 years
He’s lost so much weight swimming @LewisPugh ‘s @speedo trunks have been getting smaller. That’s what 60 hours in the water does swimming from Land’s End to Dover. #thelongswim @SkyOceanRescue @SkyNews
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@GylesB1 You can expect big things from me over the next 2 weeks GB... #selfisolating
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Many moons ago when I was a news presenter novice asking for advice, a director said “be more like Dermot”. Today we have given @DermotMurnaghan a send off fitting of the very best.
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Breaking: @SophyRidgeSky admits on @skynews having bought a PlayStation in preparation for potential self isolation. I think we need to see the scientific evidence she based this decision on. No word as yet on loo roll or baked beans.
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Jonathan Samuels
8 months
The brilliant Krystal did my makeup today. She recently worked on @barbiethemovie “Make me look like Gosling!”
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Jonathan Samuels
2 years
Very impressive watching @British_Airways and @VirginAtlantic dual take off from @HeathrowAirport to celebrate reopening of US borders after pandemic. @skynews
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Let's do this! #sunrise
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Jonathan Samuels
2 years
I’m definitely sitting at the desk, not hiding under it, for @skynews at 10pm. Another extraordinary day in Westminster as #Trussonomics is ripped up. Plus the thoughts of @MrHarryCole and @PippaCrerar #Skypapers
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4 years
Proper sportsmanship
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6 years
How cool are these two? Harry and Meghan head to a private evening reception at Frogmore House in a sports car #HarryAndMehgan #RoyalWeddding2018
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Valentine’s weekend fans - I’m excited to be interviewing my wife in a moment. What a way to spend this romantic weekend... ❤️ 📺 @SkyNews
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I’m impressed Oprah doesn’t have any notes. Very long interview and not a scrap of paper. #MeghanandHarryonOprah
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