Happy 34th birthday to newsman James Longman!

He looks like a hunky actor or a model but James Longman is actually an English journalist and foreign correspondent for US network ABC News. He covers breaking news around Europe and the Middle East – often deployed to cover terror attacks – as well as making features and news specials on all kinds of issues for ABC’s Good Morning America, World News Tonight and Nightline.

James is openly gay and today is his 34th birthday.

Previously, James worked at the BBC where he worked as a general news reporter and the corporation’s Beirut correspondent. Fluent in Arabic and French, he specialised in the Middle East, and regularly reports on issues around the refugee crisis and the Arab world, as well as terrorist incidents around Europe.