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Aug 06, 1965 Seisdon, England, United Kingdom Died on 07 Apr 2008 (aged 42)

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About Mark Speight

  • Mark Warwick Fordham Speight (6 August 1965 – 7 April 2008) was an English television presenter and host of children's art programme SMart.
  • Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist.
  • He took a degree in commercial and graphic art and, while working in television set construction, heard of auditions for a new children's art programme.
  • Speight was successful in his audition and became one of the first presenters of SMart, working on it for 14 years. Speight was also a presenter on See It Saw It, where he met his future fiancée, actress and model Natasha Collins.
  • He took part in live events, such as Rolf on Art and his own Speight of the Art workshops for children.
  • He was involved in charity work; he became the president of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's Young Pavement Artists Competition, and was a spokesperson for ChildLine. In January 2008, Speight found Collins's body in the bath of their shared London flat.
  • He was arrested on suspicion of her murder, but not charged with any offence.
  • An inquest later determined that Collins had died of a drug overdose and severe burns from hot water.
  • In April that year, Speight was reported missing and was later discovered to have hanged himself near Paddington station.
  • Two suicide notes were discovered, describing how he could no longer live his life without Collins.

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