Maddie Moate


Maddie Moate is a British television presenter and YouTube filmmaker most known for presenting the CBeebies series Maddie's Do You Know?. She was awarded the Best Presenter BAFTA at the Children's BAFTAs 2017. Moate is a science communicator but studied theatre, film and television at Bristol University. On 15 February 2018, she became engaged to operation ouch presenter Greg Foot.

YouTube and online content

Moate developed and presented The App Show, an online comedy series on LadyGeek, with Nicola Hume from 2011 to 2012. The series, which attracted over 850,000 views, discussed everyday tech issues from a female perspective and was sponsored by Nokia.
In 2012, she presented Newsburst on O2 Guru TV. The series attracted more than four million views. The same year, Moate presented Home of the Future for Channel 4. Between 2012 and 2013, Moate made three films for Samsung. The Samsung SSD Angels videos attracted 1.5 million views. Moate presented a series of films for Intel and Argos, for use in their Superhuman Academy and Smarten Up campaigns. Moate presented the online videos for Sony Xperia Z5 in September 2015, whilst in Berlin.
Since 2014, Moate has been the lead presenter of BBC Earth Unplugged, a BBC produced channel on YouTube with over 480,000 subscribers. The series garnered the notice of BBC America, who compiled the highlights to make a one off television programme, It's a Mad Mad Maddie World!.
In March 2015, she released a video The Real Me talking about her personal struggles with perioral dermatitis in the hope that "talking openly about it could actually be a big support to lots of other people". In September 2015, she released a follow up video titled: Maddie Moate – Hydromol Ointment 3 in 1 Regime, explaining that she had been misdiagnosed and that she actually has under treated eczema.

Television and radio

Moate has been the resident technology expert on BBC 5 Live Saturday Edition since 2014. She frequently features on BBC 5 Live's Big Share, Good Morning Britain and BBC Breakfast. Since 2016, Moate presents a factual series for CBeebies, entitled Maddie's Do You Know?, which has an average audience of 328,000. A second series was commissioned by CBeebies, produced by Sarah Trigg, and shown in 2018.
She won the BAFTA Children's Awards in 2017, in the category of presenter. A third and fourth series have since been released in 2019 and 2020 respectively. In 2018, she joined the BBC team on Springwatch, hosting the "Springwatch Wild Academy" aimed at schools and children.