Personal Life
Stapleton was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His father Frank was secretary of the local Co-op and his mother, June was a part time junior school teacher. Stapleton was educated at Diggle Primary School and Hulme Grammar School, Oldham and St John's College of Further Education, Manchester where he did "A" levels. He did not go to university starting work instead as a trainee reporter at the age of seventeen on the now defunct Eccles and Patricroft Journal. He was later indentured to the Oldham Evening Chronicle for three years before moving onto the Daily Sketch first in Manchester and then London.
He only has one kidney that functions properly. In April 2008, he revealed, in a report for the BBC's The One Show, that when he was younger he suffered from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa.
He and his wife Lynn Faulds Wood have one son, Nicholas James (born Hammersmith, London, 1987) and have been married for more than 30 years.
He has been a supporter of Manchester City for more than 50 years ever since his father took him to see Stanley Matthews play for Blackpool against City at their old Maine Road ground in the 1950s.
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