Bushra Shaikh’s media and broadcasting career spans reality television, mainstream political commentary, and highly controversial international journalism. After transitioning from fashion design to public broadcasting following her 2017 stint on BBC’s The Apprentice, she has established herself as a prominent socio-political analyst and broadcaster.
Following her reality TV appearance, Shaikh became a frequent panellist and commentator across major British networks such as regularly featuring on Good Morning Britain, contributing to daily political debates on talkTV and GB News, appearing on programs for the BBC and Channel 4 and appearing in documentaries for Channel 4.
Bushra Shaikh utilizes her social media platforms, including her Instagram account and X (formerly Twitter), to broadcast independent journalism and political opinions to hundreds of thousands of followers. She is also the founder of Run Racism Out, an online activist network focused on institutional discrimination and social justice issues in the UK.
Anna Williamson is an English television presenter and dating agent. She is the former co-presenter of children’s programmes Rescue Robots Toonattik and Action Stations! on CITV. In 2019, Anna Williamson began appearing as a dating agent on the E4 reality dating series Celebs Go Dating.
Anna Williamson has also worked as an entertainment reporter and showbiz presenter on the ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak in 2011, as well as appearing on Big Brother’s Bit on the Side as a reporter.
Before joining GMTV in February 2005, Anna Williamson presented Milkshake! on Channel 5 and a number of shows for the Disney Channel. In 2003, she presented a one-off CITV gameshow series called Rescue Robots and she guest-presented on CITV towards the end of the summer holidays of the same year. A year later in the autumn of 2004, she presented a CITV game show called Scary Sleepover.
On 6 March 2010, it was announced GMTV children’s presenters Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson would be made redundant following ITV plc taking full control of GMTV, their last broadcast aired on 9 May 2010. Anna Williamson and Rickers have since occasionally presented Nickelodeon strands.
From May 2011, she was an occasional entertainment reporter and TV Matters presenter for ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak.
In 2013, she appeared on This Morning as an agony aunt, and from 2013 to 2015, she appeared on Big Brother’s Bit on the Side as a panellist and guest reporter.
In 2014, Anna Williamson participated in the second series of the ITV celebrity diving show Splash!, making her first appearance in Heat 2, she made it through to the semi-final but no further, exiting the show on 8 February 2014.
Natasha Raskin Sharp is a Scottish television presenter, and antiques and art expert, especially in Scottish contemporary art, best known for her appearances on television. The daughter of contemporary Scottish artist Philip Raskin, she has appeared in programmes in the UK and the US including Antiques Road Trip, Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, Flog It!, Bargain Hunt, For What It’s Worth and Baggage Battles.
Natasha Raskin Sharp is a regular expert contributor on the BBC’s Antiques Road Trip, Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, Flog It! and has acted as both expert and lead presenter on BBC’s Bargain Hunt. She appeared in the US show Baggage Battles. In 2016 she appeared as a guest expert in episodes of For What It’s Worth with Fern Britton. She has also appeared on the Janice Forsyth Show on BBC Radio Scotland, reviewing an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. She has been a guest presenter on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Music Match, and between 2017 and 2025, presented her own weekly programme, playing an eclectic mix of music. She has presented story segments for The One Show on BBC 1. In October 2021 it was announced that she would be seen in Susan Calman’s Antiques Adventure on Channel 5.
Megan McCubbin is an English zoologist, conservationist and television presenter.
In 2017, Megan McCubbin hosted an episode of the BBC documentary series Undercover Tourist about the bear bile industry, and became a regular reporter on Al Jazeera’s Earthrise programme. She presented an episode of Planet Defenders in which she investigated why protected sharks were being caught and sold as ‘Rock Salmon’. With her stepfather Chris Packham, she has co-hosted Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch on BBC Two since 2020. In 2021, Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin co-hosted Chris and Meg’s Wild Summer for the BBC.
In May and June 2022, Megan McCubbin presented Springwatch from the Kielder Forest, Hauxley Nature Reserve and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In August 2022, she joined the presenting team on Animal Park, a 15-part series filmed at Longleat in Wiltshire and broadcast daily on BBC One and BBC Two.
Amy Irons is a Scottish television and radio presenter. She currently works as a news and sport presenter for BBC Scotland.
In 2019, Amy Irons began working as a sport reporter for BBC Scotland’s The Nine and has co-hosted the football-themed podcast Sacked in the Morning alongside Craig Levein since 2021. She has since hosted numerous other BBC programmes, including Reporting Scotland, Sportscene and BBC Scotland’s Hogmanay.
In April 2023, Amy Irons was announced as the host of the mid-morning show on the relaunched Heart Scotland. She left the station in June 2025 to return to the BBC full time.
In 2025, she became a launch presenter for the new Reporting Scotland programme News at Seven on the BBC Scotland channel.
Later that year, Amy Irons became host of The Saturday Show on BBC Radio Scotland. A new topical entertainment programme featuring weekly news, music and daily sport. Amy Irons presents with her former Capital Breakfast co-host Steven Mill, who also presents on Clyde 1.
Amy Irons hosted BBC Scotland’s Hogmanay show in 2024 and 2025.
Emma Vardy is a BBC Correspondent and Presenter with extensive experience covering major stories across UK and US Politics, Business, Technology, Sport and Entertainment.
An engaging and versatile broadcaster, Emma regularly appears on the BBC News at Six and Ten, Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live, while her presenting work includes the Business news on BBC Breakfast, the BBC News Channel and hosting Newsnight.
As the BBC’s Los Angeles Correspondent from 2023 to 2025, Emma covered the US Presidential Election, the Trump Presidency, LA wildfires, the tech world’s rapid changes, and major Hollywood awards including the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys. She reported on significant moments such as the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, the world’s biggest tech outage, the wave of college campus riots, and also wrote for The Sunday Times on an exclusive with Celine Dion.
Previously, as Ireland Correspondent, Emma was recognised for reporting on the political complexities of Northern Ireland, and for her “brave and fearless reporting” on paramilitary violence. An award-winning journalist with seventeen years at the BBC, she has reported from Ukraine, Washington DC, and Westminster. Emma holds two Royal Television Society Awards and was named the Political Studies Association’s “Journalist of the Year”.
A passionate sportswoman, Emma has played women’s football and rugby, surfs around the world, and as a mother has explored changing attitudes to sport and fitness through pregnancy. She once described her most daunting moment as answering questions in the famous chair on Celebrity Mastermind.
Emma’s warm and entertaining style makes her a popular speaker and host. Her ability to connect with a wide range of audiences and demystify complex subjects has seen her become one of the BBC’s most well-liked talents. She has chaired events for organisations including the Political Studies Association, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern’s Good Friday Agreement 25th Anniversary, the Royal College of Midwives, Queen’s University, and the Belfast Book Festival.
Alex Hartley is an English former cricketer who played as a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. Between 2016 and 2019, she appeared in 28 One Day Internationals and four Twenty20 Internationals for England. She was part of the side that won the 2017 World Cup. Alex Hartley played domestic cricket for Lancashire, Middlesex, Surrey Stars, Lancashire Thunder, North West Thunder, Manchester Originals and Welsh Fire in England, as well as Tasmania and Hobart Hurricanes in Australia.
In December 2019, Alex Hartley began a podcast named No Balls: The Cricket Podcast with teammate Kate Cross. In 2021, it became part of the BBC Sounds platform. The podcast won ‘Best Cricket Podcast’ and ‘Best Equality & Social Impact Podcast’ at the 2023 Sports Podcast Awards, and ‘Best Cricket Podcast’ at the following year’s awards.
Alex Hartley has featured as part of the BBC’s Test Match Special coverage for various cricket series and tournaments, including the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, the 2020 T20I series between the England and Pakistan men’s teams, the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and the 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
Following her announcement regarding suspending her playing career in May 2023, Alex Hartley continued her media work, appearing as part of the Test Match Special commentary team for the England v Ireland Test match that commenced on 1 June 2023.
Camilla Tominey is a British journalist, broadcaster, and commentator. She is the associate editor and executive editor of The Daily Telegraph. She also writes a weekly column for the newspaper and co-hosts The Daily T podcast with Tim Stanley. Since January 2023, she has presented The Camilla Tominey Show, a Sunday morning politics show on GB News. In 2023 the New Statesman named Camilla Tominey as the 49th most influential right-wing figure in British politics.
Camilla Tominey was offered a traineeship at the Hemel Hempstead Gazette by the then editor. Within two years at the newspaper she had qualified as a senior journalist. After contacting the Sunday Express and asking for shifts, she left the Hemel Hempstead Gazette and joined the Sunday Express. She was offered the opportunity to report on the British royal family by Sunday Express editor Martin Townsend. She began her career as a royal reporter in 2005 when she covered the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.
At the Sunday Express she worked in several roles concurrently, firstly as royal editor and deputy political editor, and then as royal editor, political editor and a columnist. Press Gazette journalist Dominic Ponsford said this was “a reflection of tight budgets on the title”. She joined NBC News in 2010 and co-hosted its coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton from outside Buckingham Palace alongside Meredith Vieira, Matt Lauer, Andrew Roberts and Martin Bashir. Camilla Tominey’s scoops have included her 2013 report of Prince Andrew being held at gunpoint by guards at Buckingham Palace. She broke the news of Prince Harry’s relationship with Meghan Markle in an article in the Sunday Express on 31 October 2016. The article was nominated for the Scoop of the Year award at the British Press Awards. Camilla Tominey covered Prince Harry and Markle’s wedding, again for NBC News.
Camilla Tominey moved to The Daily Telegraph as associate editor (politics and royals) in 2018. She has been described as holding pro-Brexit views. On 1 May 2021, she began writing a weekly Telegraph column. In June 2021, after misquoting Meghan Markle on a TV programme, she stated that she had received abuse on Twitter and via email, which resulted in Twitter and the police taking action.
On 1 July 2021, it was announced that Camilla Tominey would commence a Sunday afternoon show on call-in radio station LBC. The show, which ran from 4pm to 7pm, began on 4 July. On 18 August 2022, it was reported she would leave LBC and join GB News as a political presenter. Since January 2023, she has presented The Camilla Tominey Show, a weekly political interview show from 9:30am to 11am on Sundays on the channel.
In April 2024, she became The Telegraph’s executive editor, and co-host of The Daily T podcast with Kamal Ahmed.
Camilla Tominey is a patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and the Peace Hospice. She is a contributor to ITV’s This Morning, and has appeared on the BBC’s Any Questions? and Question Time.
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