Career
Prior to that, he was one of the family of faces on national show, British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast, in the United Kingdom. Lavelle was a trainee journalist with Granada Television, before joining Independent Television Tyne Tees. He worked as a Programme Editor for two years, as part of the launch-team for the First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera English news service bureau in London. He is a former Entertainment Correspondent for Sky News and a news correspondent and weekend presenter for Five News.
He also had a spell as news correspondent and presenter for British Broadcasting Corporation London News.
In 2010, Lavelle was hired by the British Broadcasting Corporation national network as a news correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast. At First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera English, he has become an established correspondent in Europe and the Near East.
He has reported from: the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Cyprus, and Israel & Palestine. In 2014, he revealed on Twitter that he had been commissioned to make an hour long documentary by the channel on smartphone and device addiction, which he filmed in the United Kingdom and United States. lieutenant was broadcast in fall 2014.
He is known to be a keen fitness fan and gym goer.
