Lewis Vaughan Jones

Vaughan Jones grew up in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, where he attended Stanwell School.^[2][3] He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College of Oxford University.^[4]

Vaughan Jones began his career at the Welsh Government.^{[citation needed]}

He began working in television at ITV Wales in 2005. He then worked at ITN as a journalist covering a range of issues. He became an acting health correspondent at ITV News in 2014.^[5] However, by April 2015, Vaughan Jones was a political correspondent at ITV News.^[6]

As of 2017, Vaughan Jones was an occasional presenter of ITV News bulletins. As of 2018, Vaughan Jones was a newsreader at ITN and the BBC.^[7] By April 2019, he worked at BBC News only, presenting on both the BBC News and BBC World News channels.^[8] He still appears regularly on BBC News as a news presenter. Since 2024, he has been a relief presenter for the BBC News at One. On 12 April 2026, he made his debut presenting BBC Breakfast.^[9]

Vaughan Jones began wearing a hearing aid on air in 2018, after suddenly becoming unable to hear through his left ear, following him suffering from the common cold.^[7] He now has an implant, called a Bone Anchored Hearing Aid.

Vaughan Jones married Hannah Vaughan Jones,^[10] a former news presenter and journalist at CNN International and Sky News, in 2015.^[11] The couple live in Twickenham, south-west London.^[12] Their son was born on 10 December 2019, after 15 rounds of IVF.^[3][13]