Maddie Moate | |
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Born | Norfolk,[citation needed] England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Bristol University |
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Years active | 2011–present |
Known for | Maddie's Do You Know? |
Website | www |
Maddie Moate (born 26 July)[1] is a British television presenter and YouTube filmmaker most known for presenting the CBeebies series Maddie's Do You Know?. She was awarded the Best Presenter BAFTA at the Children's BAFTAs 2017.[2] Moate is a science communicator but studied theatre, film and television at Bristol University.[3][4] On 15 February 2018, she became engaged to science presenter Greg Foot.[5]
Moate developed and presented The App Show, an online comedy series on LadyGeek, with Nicola Hume from 2011 to 2012.[6] The series, which attracted over 850,000 views, discussed everyday tech issues from a female perspective and was sponsored by Nokia.[7]
In 2012, she presented Newsburst on O2 Guru TV. The series attracted more than four million views.[8] The same year, Moate presented Home of the Future for Channel 4.[9] Between 2012 and 2013, Moate made three films for Samsung. The Samsung SSD Angels videos attracted 1.5 million views.[10] Moate presented a series of films for Intel and Argos, for use in their Superhuman Academy and Smarten Up campaigns.[11] In 2014, Moate presented the online videos for Sony Xperia Z5.[12]
Since 2014, Moate has been the lead presenter of BBC Earth Unplugged, a BBC produced channel on YouTube with over 480,000 subscribers.[13][14] The series garnered the notice of BBC America, who compiled the highlights to make a one off television programme, It's a Mad Mad Maddie World!.
In March 2015, she released a video The Real Me (Perioral Dermatitis) talking about her personal struggles with perioral dermatitis in the hope that "talking openly about it could actually be a big support to lots of other people".[15] In September 2015, she released a follow up video titled: Maddie Moate – Hydromol Ointment 3 in 1 Regime, explaining that she had been misdiagnosed and that she actually has (or had had) under treated eczema.[16]
Moate has been the resident technology expert on BBC 5 Live Saturday Edition since 2014.[17] She frequently features on BBC 5 Live's Big Share,[18] Good Morning Britain and BBC Breakfast.[19] Since 2016, Moate presents a factual series for CBeebies entitled Maddie's Do You Know? that has an average audience of 328,000.[20][21] A second series was commissioned by CBeebies, produced by Sarah Trigg, and shown in 2018.[21]
She won the BAFTA Children's Awards in 2017, in the category of presenter.[22] A third and fourth series have since been released in 2019 and 2020 respectively [23]. In 2018, she joined the BBC team on Springwatch, hosting the "Springwatch Wild Academy" aimed at schools and children.[24]