Martyn Andrews

Andrews has created, authored, co-produced and hosted a range of award winning television shows on several major networks. He is currently host of RT’s “The Lowdown” mini-series debunking myths about the Coronavirus. He has also appeared on CNN's Connect The World, on ITV's daily chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show and worked on programmes in series 1 and 3 in "How The Other Half Lives" for Channel 5/Spun Gold TV in London/Moscow alongside Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. He reported live for six weeks from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for RT International news and CTVam broadcast in Canada.

OK! Magazine has stated that Martyn was "One To Watch" and Beige Magazine in London published an article with headline "The Rising Tsar". In January 2015 he was awarded a gratuitous diploma by Vladimir Putin for his television work at the Sochi Olympics.

From 2012 he became the arts and culture reporter for RT's evening magazine show Prime Time. In 2013 he became one of the faces of RT's new breakfast show Privet Russia and also started social and human interest reports for RT International. Martyn reported live on the Soyuz rocket launch in Kazakhstan and Martyn's stories on Russia's developing LGBT community and the Winter Olympics in Sochi raised his profile internationally appearing in press and media all over the world famously coming out live in Moscow on a TV show. In the summer of 2014 Martyn moved back to London full-time for the launch of RT UK (a daily opt out for RT's British viewers) where he was Social Affairs correspondent for RT UK news filming different consumer, social and human interest stories from all over the UK.

His other TV shows broadcast on RT include the award winning weekly culture show Moscow Out which Andrews authored and presented from 2009 - 2011, he reported live from the Eurovision Song contest in Moscow 2009., Venice of the North: A Season in St Petersburg - a travel series on Russia's stunning former capital, Russian Around a historical travel series in 2011 on Russian culture filming in London, Paris, Florence and Rome, A Prime Recipe a food strand, The Golden Ring - A Tour in Time. In 2010 Martyn was also Channel M's live studio travel expert in Manchester, England.

Andrews became known by audiences around the world in 2007 after he became the host of RT's most popular travel series Wayfarer. An adventure TV show that saw him report from minus 40 to plus 40, through 11 time zones in over 75 cities in Russia and the former Soviet Republics. Over three series he lived with Eskimos in the Polar Circle, trained with Russian Cosmonauts and the Russian army, scuba dived in dangerous karst lakes, explored secret tunnels and bunkers of the Kremlin, base jumped from the Caucasus Mountains, was set on fire at Mosfilm studios, played with tigers in Siberia, played on Tchaikovsky's piano, paraglided over warzones and danced with locals in Outer Mongolia.

Returning to the UK in 2005 the veteran traveler began writing travel articles and went on to co-host the live UK based chat show Lounge Living TV alongside Charlotte Jackson, the "Live Big Brother Event" for Endemol/T4 and became the face of Italy's main language DVD series before being offered the opportunity to move to Russia. Andrews again took a one way ticket and moved continents for the launch of Russia Today TV (later renamed RT). Co-presenting in the channel's first ever hour on air (10 December 2005), Andrews co-ordinated and set up the award winning live studio programme "Entertainment Today" which he hosted for three years, as well as presenting one of the networks first programmes in 2006, the food and travel show "Culinary Quest".

In 2003 Andrews was invited by the network RTVI in Tel Aviv to work on the English speaking documentary series Undiscovered Egypt. From sleeping alone in the Giza pyramids to discovering Egyptian secrets, Andrews' story was also featured in the book "The Pyramid Quest" written by Dr. Robert M. Schoch. Martyn then moved to New York City in 2004 to head up the award winning TV documentary series "My Abyss", a dangerous diving show for Overseas Media Ltd in Manhattan - training and filming in dozens of exotic locations around the globe including Hawaii, Thailand, Bermuda and Australia.

Born Andrew Martin in Liverpool, England, at 18 years old he became a member of the "National Youth Music Theatre" of Great Britain. In 2000 he gained a BA (hons) Degree in Performance from Mountview Theatre School and in 2005 studied the NCTJ Journalism course at the No Sweat College London.