Glenn Jones may spend his working days in front of television cameras but away from the newsroom, the Bermudian news anchor is much happier blending into the crowd at a basketball game or escaping on a long ride on his mountain bike.

In fact, despite a career built around communicating with the public, he admits he's something of an introvert.

“I think that does surprise people. Maybe for Bermudians, and even beyond my TV career, they know me as working in public-facing roles. That's definitely true but I'm not especially an extroverted person.

“There is a work persona and a home persona. I'm not super talkative. I'm not super expressive. I think my wife calls it flatlining.”

It's quite the contrast to the fast-paced world of television news, where Mr Jones has built his career in Boston.

And while he may prefer a quieter life at home, there's one thing that can get him out among the crowds: sports.

“I've turned myself into a sports fanatic. Living in Boston, they are very religious about their sports teams and that is infectious.

“I'm the guy at the Celtics game. I've braved a Patriots game in sub-freezing weather. I've been to a Bruins game, a New England Revolution game and a Rhode Island FC game where [Bermudian] Khano Smith is the coach.”

For Mr Jones, attending sporting events has become a way of connecting with the community he now calls home.

“I'm about the live, in-person sports. It's kind of community building in a way. When you live in a community like this and they have such a legacy of professional teams, people are constantly talking about sports. And sports leads the news.”

It's also where he's happy to spend a little extra money.

“The sports has turned into a guilty pleasure in a way. It can bleed you dry. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's going to be that.”

He even made it to the World Cup this past summer, an experience he described as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

When he's not cheering from the stands, Mr Jones has developed another passion: mountain biking.

“When I lived in Bermuda, I ran a lot. I lived on the Railway Trail. But even though I hate to admit it, I'm ageing. The mountain bike is a bit more conducive. There's more months out of the year that I can do it. I have a bike that I hang in my basement during the off-season. When the weather is good, I'm out riding.”

Unlike the excitement of a packed sports stadium, mountain biking offers him something entirely different.

“I think mountain biking brings me some quiet that can be hard to find otherwise.

“It can be a stressful, hard-to-leave-it-at-work kind of job. The biking gives me some reprieve from that. It's just me. I can do it at my own pace.”

Finding that time isn't always easy. When we spoke, he was outside a federal courthouse, where he had spent the past month covering a trial for up to 12 hours a day.

“I've got to be at the courthouse at 9am and the show that analyses the trial is at 7pm. I haven't had a lot of free time.”

Weekends, when available, are reserved for his interests, including road trips.

“We can't really do that in Bermuda but we can do it in New England. A drive to Maine or Rhode Island. We went to Harlem this past weekend. It's easy to get to a completely different environment by investing two to three hours in a car.”

Despite building his life and career overseas, Mr Jones says his Bermudian upbringing remains an important part of who he is.

“I think the way we grew up with those sort of small-town community values, those are going to be with me always. Manners to your elders, saying good morning to people. Those things are still ingrained.”

He says that warmth is something others have noticed, even when he doesn't consciously think about it.

“I've heard people who live here say back to me about a sort of warm hospitality that is just kind of natural and noticeable to them and that's a result of where I grew up.”

“I guess it's a signature of who I am that's recognised by other people when I forget it's there.”