Phil Lavelle
Phil Lavelle is an English TV news presenter and correspondent. He is currently with CGTN America where he works as their Los Angeles Correspondent.Career
Lavelle was a trainee journalist with Granada Television, before joining ITV Tyne Tees. He worked as a Programme Editor for two years, as part of the launch-team for the Al Jazeera English news service bureau in London.
He is a former Entertainment Correspondent for Sky News and a news correspondent and weekend presenter for Five News. He also had a spell as news correspondent and presenter for BBC London News. In 2010, Lavelle was hired by the BBC national network as a news correspondent for BBC Breakfast.
At Al Jazeera English, he became an established correspondent in Europe and the Near East. He reported from: the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Cyprus, and Israel & Palestine. In the autumn of 2014, he was featured in the strand 'Al Jazeera Correspondent', with his self-produced documentary, 'My Digital Addiction'.Personal life
He is married, with two children, and is a keen fitness fan and gym goer. Lavelle currently resides in Bel Air, Los Angeles.
