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An ultra-specialised journalist, focusing on cutting bills without cutting back, he founded MoneySavingExpert.com in 2003 for £100. It's now the UK's biggest money site, with over 14m monthly users and 9m receiving the Martin's Money Tips email – and he remains its full-time Editor-In-Chief.

He has his own evening ITV programme - The Martin Lewis Money Show - and is resident expert on This Morning, Daybreak and BBC Radio 5 Live's Consumer Panel, amongst others.

He's often credited as the "big gob in chief" behind campaigns to reclaim Bank Charges, PPI and Council Tax with over 10 million template letters downloaded and many billions repaid. He has also been at the forefront of the successful campaign to get financial education in schools.

He's been Consumer Journalist of the Year, Citizens Advice Consumer Champion, has topped The Grocer's 2011 Retail Power100 list, was 5th in the Sunday Times Rich List Giving Index, and appeared in the ‘charity and campaigning’ section of the top 500 most influential people in the UK. He has an honorary doctorate from Chester University and, according to Google, was again the UK's most searched-for British man in 2013.

Outside the world of money, he was a Celebrity Mastermind champion in 2012, won £150,000 on Celebrity Millionaire (going to CAB), regularly appears in Countdown's Dictionary Corner, averages over 400 points a game at Scrabble and, sadly, scores similar at golf. Bizarrely, he also had a featuring credit in a top 40 single, I Fought The Lloyds.

Martin is a governor of the London School of Economics and founder and patron of the MSE Charity, which so far has seen £100,000s of grants go to consumer finance education charities.

In 2012, MSE joined the MoneySupermarket group, and Martin used some of the proceeds to set up a £10m charity fund. The first £1m is being donated to Citizens Advice. The rest will be given over the next few years, and Martin primarily aims to focus on his passions for financial education and improving mental health and debt policy.

Surely that's enough info for anyone - but if you want really nerdy details - read on.

In this guide

The background stuff

TV, radio, books and papers

Profile and more stuff

What he says about his work

What they say about him

Quick Links

Video: Martin's 'life story' on Lorraine

Video: Martin's showreel

Also see: Martin's blog

Also see: About the site

The background stuff...

Recent awards

London Press Club Consumer Journalist of the Year

Citizens Advice Champion

UK's most-searched person 2009

UK's 2nd most-searched person 2010

Martin is 41 years old, was born in Manchester, grew up in Cheshire's Delamere Forest and now lives in north-west London with his wife Lara.

He first moved to London to study Government and Law at the LSE, where he then spent a year as general secretary (president) of the students' union. After that he worked 'for the other side' as a City spin doctor in financial public relations while dabbling in stand-up comedy in his spare time to "relieve the tedium".

Then back to uni, this time a practical postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University, which led to a staff job on personal finance and business programmes in the BBC's Business Unit. He spent time as a business editor at Radio 4's Today programme, and later reported for BBC1, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live.

Martin left the BBC on 31 December 1999 to go to a small, now-defunct digital channel called Simply Money Television, which is where he first became the 'Money Saving Expert'.

These days he's even done his own one-man West End show, MoneySaving Live, and just to get really silly, had a featuring credit in a top 40 chart hit, I Fought The Lloyds.

Outside of pure MoneySaving, Martin is a governor of the London School of Economics, has an average Scrabble score of over 400, tries to get his golf round under 90, does a bit of rock n roll-esque dancing supports Manchester City, loves The Big Bang Theory (Bazinga!) and tries to be an athletics track and field stats nerd. For more, see Martin's blog.

Watch Martin's 'life story'

Courtesy of ITV1's Lorraine

TV, radio, books and newspaper stuff

As well as creating, running and writing this site, Martin is phenomenally busy. His current portfolio of regular work includes...

The Martin Lewis Money Show, ITV. Martin's primetime show aims to save you £1,000s. Series 3 airs on Fridays at 8pm in January and February 2014.

This Morning, Mondays, ITV. Martin talks MoneySaving each Monday with Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on This Morning, presenting top deals and ways to save.

The Money Vault, This Morning, Fridays, ITV. Are the rich and famous brave enough to enter the vault where Martin interrogates their finances?

Daybreak, Thursdays, ITV. After a number of years with GMTV, Martin carried straight over to the Daybreak team where he does his Deals of the Week.

The Consumer Panel, Thursdays, 12noon, BBC Radio 5 Live. Every Thursday Martin joins Shelagh Fogarty's show to debate the week's money stories.

Daily Telegraph, Woman and other columns. Martin has a monthly column in the Daily Telegraph, appears fortnightly in Woman magazine, and has a syndicated column in a range of regional newspapers, including the Manchester Evening News and the Jewish Chronicle.

As well as these regular slots, Martin's constantly interviewed and appears on a range of news and current affairs programmes.

Outside the world of money, Martin’s nerdy love of Scrabble means he regularly sits in Dictionary Corner on Channel 4's Countdown. He was Celebrity Mastermind champion in 2012 with the Superman films as his specialist subject, and in 2009 won £150,000 for charity alongside Angela Rippon on ITV's Celebrity Who Wants To Be a Millionaire (playing for Citizens Advice).

MoneySaving Live

Past TV & newspaper stuff

In the past Martin has had a number of TV series and newspaper columns of his own, these include...

News of the World column. Martin had his own weekly campaigning page in the News of the World with his main column, plus tips of the week and a reader Q&A.

Martin Lewis' It Pays To Watch, Channel 5. Martin presented three series of this prime time MoneySaving show on Channel 5 - in a live format the aim was to jam as much MoneySaving as possible into the half hour - at the speed he talks, that's serious content.

Tonight, ITV. For five years Martin was a regular presenter of ITV's flagship Tonight current affairs programme, bringing detailed half-hour MoneySaving shows and exposes to a prime time ITV audience.

Make Me Rich, ITV. Martin's first TV series was Make Me Rich, a money makeover show where he was challenged to save families as much as possible in just one day. The average saving over the series was more than £5,000 per family.

Previously Martin's had columns in the Sunday Times, Guardian and Sunday Express, and was a regular on ITV's morning show Lorraine.

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Martin's books The Money Diet, Three Lessons and Thrifty Ways have all been bestsellers.

The 2nd edition of the Money Diet followed in the footsteps of the first edition by topping the Amazon Bestsellers list. This time it was number one for over two weeks, knocking Jamie Oliver and Sharon Osborne off the top spot.