CBeebies star arrested

Kahnee · January 4, 2008

BBC children's presenter Mark Speight has been released on police bail after being arrested in connection with a woman's death at a north London house.

Presenter Natasha Collins, believed to be Mr Speight's girlfriend, was reportedly found dead in the bath.

Mr Speight, who is the host of CBBC art show SMart, was arrested at the scene on Thursday.

Police said a man in his 40s had been bailed to return to a central London police station next month.

Officers were called to a house in north-west London at 1320 GMT on 3 January after reports of the sudden death of a woman in her thirties.

A post mortem examination will be carried out later, but the death is being treated as "unexplained", a police spokesman said.

Religious show

According to reports, Mr Speight and Ms Collins shared a house in the St Johns Wood area.

The couple appeared together on BBC children's programme See It Saw It.

Mr Speight, who was born and raised in Wolverhampton, has also appeared on the BBC's religious show Heaven and Earth and ITV1's This Morning.

A spokesman for the BBC declined to comment on the arrest, while Mr Speight's agent was not available.

pipnasty · January 4, 2008

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