Michael (Mike) Hollingsworth is a former British TV executive, best known for his marriage to Anne Diamond and for being the father of their five children.

During his substantial television and radio career, Hollingsworth was responsible for many popular shows, including *BBC Breakfast Time; Good Morning Britain, TV-am; Good Morning with Anne and Nick.

He was earlier responsible for many Royal Television Society award-winning regional programmes and in radio, The Jimmy Young Show and Today.*

In 1998, Hollingsworth hit the headlines following an affair with radio personality Harriet Scott. In March 2009 Hollingsworth married in Barbados his long-term girlfriend, TV agent Kimberley Stewart-Mole. A year later they split up and divorced.

Hollingsworth left school at 15 to become a trainee journalist in the England/Scotland borders reporting on Lake District climbing accidents and Gretna Green runaway marriages.

He became a television reporter at 18 after being asked by the BBC (Newcastle region) to do bank holiday traffic reports.

After working for Anglia TV, he joined the BBC to help start local radio in Leicester and Durham, before creating a national newsdesk for all BBC local television and radio - GNS.

Before returning to television in ITV newsrooms, he ran the Jimmy Young “prog” on BBC Radio 2, notably bagging the first interview with Margaret Thatcher as leader of the Tory party, which earned him promotion to Assistant Editor of the Radio 4 “Today” programme based in Manchester.

In 1983 he was a launch Editor of BBC Breakfast Time with Frank Bough and Selina Scott, before being headhunted as Director of Programmes to help save the commercial breakfast tv station.

TV-am, from financial bankruptcy.

In 1992, after a spell running satellite tv channels on the Sky satellite, he returned to BBC-1 as Executive Producer of daytime programmes.

He set up his own agency (Venture Artists) representing broadcasters and started a company investing in radio and tv with the late Dodi Fayed.

After Dodi’s death he returned to formal education and was admitted to Ruskin College, Oxford, where he studied for a Masters in Public History.

He has worked since on consultancies and single projects for a variety of broadcast companies.

Hollingsworth worked part-time for a number of charities - including as trustee of the Diamond Cot Death Appeal, named after his son Sebastian Diamond who died aged 6 months; also the Downs' Syndrome Association and Cancer Research UK where his work in the entertainment industry enabled him to garner VIP and celebrity support.

In 1987 he organized the charity record "Let it Be" in support of victims of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster.

Hollingsworth has been married three times - first to Patricia Winn (commercial artist) by whom he had one daughter, Rebecca James (b 1974).

His second wife was the broadcaster Anne Diamond with whom he had 5 sons, Oliver (1987), James (1988), Sebastian b 1991/d.1991), Jacob (1993), Conor (1994).

His third marriage was to his long-term girlfriend Kimberley Stewart-Mole, a barmaid and teacher.

Hollingsworth also became known for an affair with the broadcaster Harriet Scott (now Bloom).