Media Career
After retiring, Bright became a football correspondent on The Big Breakfast. He currently works on the BBC show Football Focus. He also commentates on some international matches, often alongside Jonathan Pearce and Steve Wilson on Match of the Day. He is also the sports correspondent for BBC London News. He has also written for Match magazine, appeared on 6-0-6 phone-in show, Fighting Talk radio show, 5 Live Sport radio show, and on television programme Final Score.
In summer 2009 he joined the Crystal Palace academy set-up, along with his former teammate John Salako.
Bright has completed six half marathons since his retirement in 1999, all of them in the Great North Run. He is also a regular competitor in the London Marathon, raising funds for cancer research in 2000, the Willow Foundation in 2005 and The Rhys Daniels Trust in 2006. In 2006 he starred in Cirque de Celebrité, only to be the first person to be voted off. In March 2007, he scored the first goal at the new Wembley Stadium for a "Geoff Thomas Foundation Charity XI", in aid of his captain at Palace, Geoff Thomas; his team won 2–0 (Simon Jordan scoring the second goal.
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