Tributes pour in for legendary North West broadcaster following “peaceful” death with Parkinson’s

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Stapleton’s agent, Jackie Gill, said on Sunday: “John had Parkinson’s disease, which was complicated by pneumonia. He presented the BBC’s Watchdog programme between 1985 and 1993 alongside his wife, Lynn Faulds Wood, who died in 2020. Stapleton’s son Nick also inherited the consumer affairs programming bug from his dad, followinh him into TV as co-host of the BBC’s Bafta-winning Scam Interceptors. Stapleton’s son Nick said that when he and his father “watched them [City] win the Champions League in Istanbul he turned to me and said he’d die happy. He meant it.”Manchester City are saddened to learn that John Stapleton has passed away at the age of 79.