money-saving expert covers it all.And while we usually hear him dishing out his advice, this weekend he opened up about his personal life on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.Speaking to the programmes host Lauren Laverne, Martin discussed the lovely reason he wanted to join ITV show This Morning as a money expert and the sudden, devastating loss of his mother when he was just 11-years-old.The financial journalist is often seen on ITV shows Good Morning Britain as well as This Morning and his own evening show on the channel."In journalism school, everyone sat around and we all said what we wanted to do and there were some brave people that wanted to be war correspondents and I talked about wanting to be an expert on a show like This Morning.
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