Gordon Burns has anchored NORTH WEST TONIGHT for the last 12 years. He recently won the BBC's prestigious Ruby award for Best UK Regional Presenter and has also picked up the Royal Television Society’s north west award for Best Regional Broadcaster on five occasions.

Gordon made his name nationally when he wrote and presented the popular ITV quiz The Krypton Factor which ran for 18 years in a peak time slot and won audiences of up to 18 million people. He was also a consultant on the show helping to devise many of its mind stretching and physical challenges.

Gordon began his career as a reporter in Belfast where he was born. He then went to BBC radio in London working on programmes like SPORTS REPORT AND SPORTS PARADE. He also had a spell on the TODAY programme before returning to Belfast where he was appointed sports editor of Ulster Television.

When the troubles began in Northern Ireland, Gordon fronted the nightly news programme UTV REPORTS covering, over a four year period, events like bloody Sunday and the fall of the Stormont parliament. He describes that time as the most testing of his life. He was later given his own late night chat show, The GORDON BURNS HOUR.

Returning to England, Gordon first presented GRANADA REPORTS and then produced and presented Granada's political programmes in the North West. For ten years he provided the live commentaries on the ITV network for the political party conferences in Blackpool and made several WORLD IN ACTION programmes on the Northern Ireland troubles. Later he continued his fascination with Irish politics by anchoring Channel Four's "IRISH ANGLE" for several years.

A sports lover, Gordon loves nothing more than watching premiership football and sitting through days of test matches at Old Trafford! He is married with two grown up children, both now working in television. He has lived in Manchester for the last 30 years.

His proudest boast is that he has interviewed at length six British and four Irish prime ministers.

Gordon is very much in demand in the Corporate Market, hosting conferences and award ceremonies and training events.