Baddoo was born in
London, England, and earned a bachelor's degree in Education from
London University. He began his journalistic career as a features writer with
Custom Car magazine in England, and later worked for IPC magazines and on the launch of Britain's first colour newspaper,
Today. In the mid-1980s he worked in
BBC Schools television, then hosted the news and current affairs show
Black Londoners on Radio London. Later, he joined BBC TV as a reporter and presenter of the BBC children's news programme,
Newsround, for which he reported from numerous global events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the Barcelona Olympics. He subsequently worked for BBC News as a sports reporter and presenter on
BBC Breakfast News and
BBC World, and later freelanced for the satellite TV channel Sky as a football reporter and rugby features producer. From 1995, he was the main U.S-based sports anchor for
CNN International's
World Sport, writing and presenting live daily news and feature shows on the day's top sports stories from CNN Center in
Atlanta, and reporting from the field at many major sporting events. He also provided sports bulletins and commentary for all the CNN International News shows, and was a regular columnist on the CNN World Sport website. In 1999, Baddoo was noted as working at
Sports Illustrated. Baddoo left CNN International in March 2011, doing his final sign-off on March 31. He went on to host the international English language coverage of the London Olympics for Chinese State Television on CCTV News. In 2014 he was recruited by BeIN SPORTS to become Director of Sports Programming for the network's US operation in Miami, Florida. ==Personal and family==