Martel is a newspaper columnist, radio and television presenter.

She co-presents The Music Bed on BBC Radio Scotland on Friday nights with Jim Gellatly – www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00stc6 or listen back on iPlayer.

You can read her weekly opinion column in The Scottish Sun – www.thescottishsun.co.uk/martel

Martel is a regular showbiz expert on itv1’s This Morning - www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning

She is the consumer expert and guest presenter on stv’s The Hour - http://programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/people/98202-martel-maxwell

Martel is a guest presenter for The Sun’s current affairs radio show SunTalk - www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sun_talk

Her debut novel Scandalous, a romantic comedy, will be published by Michael Joseph at Penguin in April 2010 – www.rupertheath.com

After her apprenticeship, came training in news, features, sport, travel and motoring at the paper's offices in Manchester, Glasgow and London, followed by a stint at the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia. Martel then landed a job as a showbiz reporter which saw her interview hundreds of stars including Tom Cruise, Kylie Minogue, Sir Sean Connery and Nicole Kidman.

Martel is a freelance journalist and still writes a weekly opinion column for The Scottish Sun as well as Scotland on Sunday. Martel has had a story included in the charity anthology The Best Day Of My Life alongside the likes of comedian Alan Carr and Stacey and Gavin actor James Corden, published in October 2008. She has also completed her first novel Scandalous, a romantic comedy which is soon to be published by Penguin.

Martel recently filmed Dont Get Screwed, a new consumer pilot show for BBC3 and is the consumer expert on STV's daily live show, The Hour as well as sometimes co-hosting the entire show. She gained experience as a showbiz expert on LK Today, MTV and Five before being offered her own show, Scotland's primetime car programme Drivetime. Martel also presents a Saturday one-woman morning show on Talk 107, which has curbed her Friday-night partying. She's in great demand for talking heads shows for her showbiz knowledge and great sense of humour.

Television
Dont Get Screwed BBC3
The Hour STV
This Morning ITV1
GMTV & Entertainment Today ITV1
Most Shocking Celeb Moments 2007 Five
Most Annoying Celeb Moments 2007 BBC3
Drivetime 7.30pm Thursdays STV
Pete Burns PA Living
Greatest Showbiz Stories Five
Celebrity Moments of 2005 Showbiz Expert Five
LK Today/GMTV Contributor Showbiz Expert TRL MTV
Skinny Stars Showbiz Expert Living TV

Radio

The Music Bed Co-presenter BBC Radio Scotland Friday 8-10pm
Martel Maxwell on Talk 107 Saturdays 10am
1pm Breakfast Show Real Radio
Fred MacAulay Show Guest Co-Presenter BBC Radio Scotland
The Karen Dunbar Show Regular Guest BBC Radio Scotland
Talk 107 Resident Showbiz Expert
Virgin Radio Co-Presenter Guest

Training:

After training to be a lawyer at Edinbugh University, Martel applied for The Sun's first graduate traineeship. She beat 3,000 hopefuls for a two year apprenticeship which started at London's City University at its prestigious postgraduate print school.

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