Background
Wootton grew up in Lower Hutt, a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand and attended Naenae College and Victoria University, where he obtained a media studies and political science degree.
journalist television presenter
Wootton grew up in Lower Hutt, a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand and attended Naenae College and Victoria University, where he obtained a media studies and political science degree.
He started his career as a journalist in his native New Zealand, writing an entertainment column for the Wellington-based broadsheet newspaper The Dominion Post and was also a reporter for the daily television show Good Morning. He came to the United Kingdom when he was 21, and after a spell working for trade magazines, he found a job with Broadcast magazine. Wootton joined the News of the World television team in February 2007, becoming television editor in November 2007, and show-business editor in November 2008 until its closure in July 2011, when he then became a columnist and feature writer for the Daily Mail and editor-at-large for Now magazine.
In 2013, Wootton joined The Sun newspaper launching a new column on Sundays.
He was made editor of the newspaper"s Bizarre column in 2014, and promoted to associate editor (showbiz and television) in 2016. He was named "Showbiz reporter of the year" at the 2010 and 2013 British Press Awards.
Wootton also appeared as a show business presenter on Independent Television’s morning show Lorraine and has been a guest on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live.