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Nicky Campbell

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell OBE is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist. He has worked in television and radio since 1981 and as a network presenter with BBC Radio since 1987. Early life Campbell was born in Portobello, Edinburgh, in April 1961, and was taken for adoption at just a few days old. His biological parents were both Irish. His unmarried mother, Stella Lackey, was an Irish Protestant matron at a Dublin Hospital. She was single when Campbell was conceived during a secretive affair. She travelled from Ireland to Edinburgh, where she gave birth to her son. His Belfast-born father, Eugene Hughes, also known as Joseph Leahy, was then a Catholic policeman, 14 years Stella's junior, and was also formerly an Irish Republican. 18 months before Nicky was born, Stella gave birth to his half-sister, Esther, also taken for adoption. His adoptive mother, Sheila, was a psychiatric social worker, and his adoptive father, Frank, a publisher of maps. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school. In July 2022, he disclosed that he witnessed and experienced sexual and violent physical abuse there, which had a "profound effect on [his] life".

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