BBC newsreader Clive Myrie has revealed why he and his wife of 25 years, Catherine, chose not to have children. The Mastermind presenter, who has reported from over 80 countries and held posts in Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Washington, met his wife, an upholsterer and furniture restorer, at a book launch about Swiss cheese in 1992.
Despite tying the knot six years later, they decided against starting a family. After the release of his 2023 memoir, Everything Is Everything: A Memoir Of Love, Hate And Hope, Clive opens up about their decision.
When asked if his high-risk job influenced their choice, Clive, known for his warzone reporting, said: “It wasn’t the danger of the job, just the travelling.”
He elaborated: “We felt it would be selfish on children to drag them around the world. We’ve come from big families. I’m from a family of seven (children), Catherine’s from a family of five kids. We weren’t desperate for some kind of familial glue. You get to the point where it’s much more difficult to have a child and then you realise, do we really want that anyway? “, according to the Mirror.
The veteran broadcaster, with a TV career that spans over three decades, revealed that he and Catherine tried to have a child when they were younger but “nothing seemed to be happening”. Eventually, the couple decided that parenthood was not for them and they have no regrets about their decision, reports Nottinghamshire Live.
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“We were trying for a child, nothing seemed to be happening. Then we ended up moving and realised that it would be quite unfair because we just love travelling so much, ” Clive told The Times. “We gradually decided it wasn’t for us. We come from such big families, our get-togethers are always huge. We’ve led a fully and happy life and we dote on our nephews and nieces,” he added.
Clive’s parents Lynne and Norris are part of the Windrush generation and moved to England from Jamaica in the early 1960s before settling in Bolton. The racism that the family experienced, and that Clive continues to encounter since appearing on TV, is a significant topic he discusses in his memoir.
He has been sent racist letters, emails, and messages, had faeces mailed to him, and received a card featuring a gorilla with the message: ‘We don’t want you on our TV screens’. In 2017, he received a death threat which investigators deemed serious.
In a candid chat with the Press Association, Clive Myrie opened up about the changing landscape of journalism regarding diversity: “I think things have improved, things are easier now, you will be judged on your capabilities and your abilities now, much more fairly than when I started in journalism and when Trevor McDonald (one of his inspirations) started, going further back. But when my parents came from Jamaica to this country, it was legal for them not to be served in a pub.”
Clive shared his experiences dealing with racial abuse, confessing: “It used to get me angry and was upsetting. We all want to be liked, to be appreciated. To be attacked for something like the colour of your skin, that it results in bile, death threats and in extreme cases real murder (threats), is discombobulating because it’s so ridiculous. There’s nothing logical about racism.”
He also touched upon the persistent prejudice he encounters from those who argue that society has moved beyond race issues. “(They think) This guy’s done ok, he should be grateful that Britain gave him and his family an opportunity. No suggestion at all that I might have worked my a*** off for this. That is racism because the assumption is that it’s been given to me through some box-ticking exercise.”
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Reflecting on his journey and the attitudes he faces, Clive observed: “As I’ve got older and perhaps wiser, it’s just sad. It’s just pathetic. These people who reach for racist taunts are very sad, pathetic human beings and may be inadequate in some way themselves.”
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