REALITY TV star Scarlett Moffatt has landed a role as a BBC correspondent for the royal wedding.
The 27-year-old, who lives in Toft Hill, will be reporting live from the grounds of Windsor Castle as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle exchange their vows at St George’s Chapel on Saturday, May 19.
Ms Moffatt has been given the role by BBC Radio 1 and will provide hourly updates for the radio station’s daytime shows. Revealing her role in the big day on social media, she wrote: “So excited to announce I’ll be an accredited correspondent for the royal wedding. To say I was excited would be an understatement.”
She will join the likes of Chris Evans, Alan Carr, Mel Sykes and Zoe Ball who will all be providing BBC radio coverage of the big day. Ms Moffatt rose to fame when she appeared on MTV’s Beauty School Cop Out and then later on Channel 4’s Gogglebox with her family.
She was crowned the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here queen of the jungle in 2016.
Earlier this year she co-hosted Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. She has also released her own fitness DVD and two books.
![A COUNTY councillor is backing a campaign to get a pedestrian crossing in Staindrop. Frustrated parish councillors in the village summoned their county council representative Cllr George Richardson to their latest meeting to discuss several issues, including the call for a safe way to cross the A688. Earlier this year their request for a crossing was turned down by the county council’s highways officers. Parish council chairman Jonothan Raper described the reasons for the refusal as “spurious” and called on Cllr Richardson to support their campaign. He added: “One of the arguments they made was there is no clear line of desire when they studied the village – well this isn’t a clear line of desire because there isn’t a crossing, people cross whenever they can. “When the lollipop person was there, one of the things I noticed was people would walk all the way down to the lollipop person to cross the road to go to the shop or to go to the school.” He added a problem of parking at the primary school is exacerbated because people are too afraid to walk their children across the road. Cllr Richardson said he had supported previous attempts for a crossing point with the first being made about 15 years ago. He added: “We went fairly well down the road with that and they looked into it. The only recommended place was where the bus stop is and to get the visibility splays, people on the other side of the road would lose their parking. “That didn’t go down well so it just died a death.” Cllr Raper said he suspected the real reason for the officers’ refusal was the cost of installing a crossing. He added that much of the cost could be recovered from savings made on not having to employ a lollipop patrol. Cllr Raper said: “A lollipop person only provides a benefit of crossing for three hours of the day. You are getting 21 extra hours of crossing time [with a pedestrian crossing].” Cllr Richardson said he would raise the issue with the county council’s cabinet member for highways, Cllr John Shuttleworth.](https://teesdalemercury.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/georgeR-120x86.jpg)
