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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, Janet Jackson to name but a few - and he's no stranger to festivals either, working at Glastonbury, Reading,
Phoenix and Brighton.
On a mission to experience the variety of television camera, he had gone as far as Bosnia and
with a background in outside broadcast, he has amounted 1000s of hours of live broadcast in all television genre from sport
to music, current affairs to light entertainment.
It was while 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. Both Karl and Yvette had wanted to
start a production company to put their ideas into practice and so Antix Productions was born - and their first idea was 'Most
Haunted'.
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 is the current World Traditional Full Contact Martial Arts Champion. He won the title in
1994 and holds it to this day after knocking out the then undefeated champion Tiju Fukura. Karl has never been beaten and
holds an impressive record of 85 official fights, 85 wins and 75 KO's. He is the only person to take the title out of Japan
and for his efforts has been awarded a Samuraiship, one of only eight honoured outside of Japan.
He holds a 4th
Dan in Ryukyu Kempo and Wado Ryu Karate, is a master swordsman and has trained extensively in Goju Ryu, Iaido, Aikido, Jujitsu,
Wing Chun and Silum Kung Fu.
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