Karl Beattie started his career in television on the set of BBC’s live children’s show Parallel 9 as a camera assistant. He was quickly snapped up by an outside broadcast company, Visions, and trained there as a cameraman.

Karl has worked on some of the top television shows in Britain: Gladiators, Blind Date, TFI Friday, Robot Wars, Disney, Jim Henson, and the World Music Awards to name but a few.

His music credits speak for themselves: Madonna’s Frozen video, Motown Mania, Sting, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Whitney Houston, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Michael Jackson to name some of the people he has covered, he is no stranger to festivals Glastonbury, Reading, Phoenix and Brighton.

Karl wanted to experience all the different types of television so he even went to Bosnia.

As Karl’s background was that of outside broadcast he has amounted 1000’s of hours of live broadcast in all television genre from sport to music, current affairs to light entertainment.

It was working on a live show, BBC’s City Hospital, that Karl met Yvette Fielding. They were engaged within 6 weeks and married within 6 months.

Karl’s expertise does not only lie in television, he started martial arts training under the legendary Otsu Maeda Sensei at the age of 7 and was the world traditional full contact martial arts champion. He won the title in 1994 after knocking out the then undefeated champion Tiju Fukura, he has never been beaten and holds an impressive record of 85 offcial fights, 85 wins, 75 KO’s. He holds the 4th dan in Ryukyu Kempo and Wado Ryu Karate, a master swordsman and trained extensively in Goju Ryu, Iaido, Aikido, Jujitu, Wing Chun and Silum Kung Fu.