‘I DON’T DESERVE TO BE HERE’
Having recently celebrated the major milestone of 50 years in media, Richard Madeley is a broadcast veteran. But the Good Morning Britain presenter reveals he still doesn’t feel good enough for the job.
The 66-year-old admitted, ‘Why, after half a century surviving in a rough old game do I still have so-called “imposter syndrome” – the occasional surge of overwhelming doubt that I deserve even to be in the profession?’ His daughter Chloe gave him a pep talk, ‘If everything you knew, everything you’d learnt, and everything you had achieved in your professional life over 50 years was about to be taken from you; obliterated – what would you give to keep it? Nothing? Or everything?’ And luckily it did the job as he realised that his greatest achievement is his wealth of experience.
He explained, ‘That represents most people’s real sense of self-worth. Anyone who gets imposter syndrome should ask themselves the same question.’
Fifty years down, 50 more to go, hey Rich?