Ariana Bravo is a British motorsport television presenter, host, and podcaster who has established herself as a prominent voice in Formula 1 media. She is widely recognized for her broadcasting roles on Channel 4’s F1 highlights show, F1 TV, and Track TV, where she frequently interviews drivers and hosts major live events like the F1 Fan Zone stages.
Inspired by a lifelong passion for racing passed down by her father, Ariana Bravo began creating self-produced F1 analysis videos on Instagram Live. These caught the attention of Formula 1’s broadcasting director, landing her a debut trackside role at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix.
By 2023, Ariana Bravo joined the Channel 4 F1 team. She has since hosted coverage for milestone events, including interviewing Sir Lewis Hamilton on the Silverstone Main Stage during the 2024 British Grand Prix weekend. She also expands her broadcasting into other sports, such as hosting for DAZN Boxing.
Jules Breach is a British sports broadcaster for TNT Sports, Fox Sports, Viaplay, and Channel 4.
In her earlier media and broadcasting career Jules Breach held presenting roles at Brighton’s Juice FM, Latest TV and Sky Poker. Jules Breach has presented live television in the UK on BT Sport, and Channel 4 as well as CBS Sports’ UEFA Champions League coverage. Her live broadcasts have included the Premier League and live England national football team matches in the UEFA Nations League, and live rolling coverage covering all the Saturday 3pm professional football matches across Britain on the flagship BT Sport show BT Sport Score. She has also broadcast on ESPN, Putland TV and Radio, and UEFA. In 2015, Jules Breach hosted the Rugby World Cup for BT Sport Score.
In her career, Jules Breach was the Master of Ceremony of The Champions Club in the Emirates and Old Trafford Stadiums for both Arsenal and Manchester United.
Jules Breach had worked for the women’s cricket coverage for TNT Sports. In January 2022, Jules Breach led the presentation team for the Women’s Ashes series.
From 2022, Jules Breach also presents the Saturday evening highlights package show of the English Football League on ITV, and has presented for the Premier League Productions English language team, and Australia’s Optus Sport.
Jules Breach has also fronted coverage of the Women’s Ashes live cricket on BT Sport in 2022. Breach has hosted The Football Ramble alongside Pete Donaldson, Andy Brassell, and Kate Mason, amongst others. Breach was also a guest on A Question of Sport, and presented the Premier League’s Fantasy Football Show alongside James Richardson.
In 2023, Jules Breach was the lead presenter for England matches on Channel 4.
She became a lead host for UEFA Euro 2024 and UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 on Fox Sports broadcasting for American TV viewers.
Jules Breach returned to Fox to anchor the network’s 2026 FIFA World Cup coverage.
Susan Dent is an English lexicographer, etymologist, and media personality. She has appeared in “Dictionary Corner” on the Channel 4 game show Countdown
since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a post-watershed comedy version of the show.
Susan Dentis well known as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on Channel 4’s longest-running game show Countdown. She began working on Countdown
in 1992 at the insistence of her boss at Oxford University Press (OUP). She had recently switched roles to work on compiling English dictionaries, having previously worked
on bilingual dictionaries. At first she declined the Countdown offer, but her boss explained that her appearance on the show formed part of her OUP employment contract
and she agreed to take the role. On each episode, she provides a brief commentary on the origin of a particular word or phrase. Dent is the longest-serving member of the
show’s current on-screen team, first appearing in 1992; she has since made more than 5,000 appearances. Dent also works on the spin-off show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown.
Susan Dentappeared as herself in an episode of the BBC sitcom Not Going Out.
She presented Channel 4 web series Susie Dent’s Guide to Swearing, which explored the etymology and history of select English swear words. She has also made an
appearance on BBC entertainment show Would I Lie to You?. In 2018, she also appeared on five episodes of the panel show Richard Osman’s House of Games.
In 2019, Susan Dentlaunched the podcast Something Rhymes With Purple, co-hosted with her friend Gyles Brandreth; they followed this up with live theatre stage residencies
using the same formula as their podcast.
In 2023, Susan Dentembarked on a solo tour, The Secret Lives of Words.
She co-wrote a romantic radio drama with Peter Souter, Only One Word for Love, that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 ahead of Valentine’s Day in 2025.
Susan Dentwas a contestant on Taskmaster’s New Year Treat in January 2026.
Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. She is Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She was previously a professor at University College London.
Hannah Fry began performing stand-up comedy in 2015, leading to a TED Talk and television work. Since then, she has regularly appeared on mainstream media in the UK, including regular appearances in The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, with Adam Rutherford, on BBC Radio 4. From series 22, in September 2024, Dara Ó Briain took over from Rutherford as co-presenter of Curious Cases.
In 2015, she presented a BBC Four film biography of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace. The following year, she co-presented Trainspotting Live with Peter Snow, a three-part series about trains and trainspotting, for the same channel. In the BBC Two series City in the Sky Hannah Fry studied the logistics of aviation. She hosted The Joy of Data on BBC Four, which examines the history and human impact of data. A further credit for 2016 was her co-hosting an episode of the BBC Two Horizon series with Dr Xand van Tulleken, titled How to Find Love Online.
In 2018, Hannah Fry presented Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic, about the possible impact of a flu pandemic, in which she said “we are about to simulate the outbreak of a fatal contagion throughout the UK if I can succeed this will save lives when, not if, a real pandemic hits.” The programme used Haslemere, Surrey, as the site of the first simulated infection, and coincidentally in February 2020 the town saw the first recorded case of a person contracting COVID-19 from within the UK. She later hosted a one-off 90-minute special of the BBC science programme Tomorrow’s World alongside four of the show’s previous presenters: Maggie Philbin, Howard Stableford, Judith Hann and Peter Snow.
In 2019, Hannah Fry presented a BBC Four programme titled A Day in the Life of Earth which explored how Earth changes in a single day and how these daily changes are essential to human existence. She presented the 2019 edition of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled Secrets and lies, on the hidden numbers, rules and patterns that control daily lives, being only the fourth ever mathematician to deliver the lectures. They were broadcast on BBC Four.
Hannah Fry co-presented 2020’s The Great British Intelligence Test on BBC Two. She has presented further programmes for the BBC explaining the mathematics behind COVID-19 and other pandemics. She was the guest interviewee on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 in 2021, and has appeared on Have I Got News for You.
In July 2022, she presented the BBC Two documentary Unvaccinated, in which she investigated why a portion of the British population remained unvaccinated against COVID-19. Reviewing in The Daily Telegraph, Anita Singh described the show as patronising, commenting that Hannah Fry’s attempt to explain statistics using “jelly-bean roulette” treated the unvaccinated people who chose to appear in the show like “six-year-olds”. Jack Seale for The Guardian wrote that “Hannah Fry needs some reward for a documentary that requires a near-saintly level of tolerance just to watch, never mind present”.
Hannah Fry began a six-part series in 2022 on BBC Two, The Secret Genius Of Modern Life, in which she investigates topics such as how credit cards came into being, their manufacture and how they work, and potential future developments. The BBC commissioned a second six-part series, again presented by Hannah Fry and first broadcast in November 2023. One episode showed secrets of producing the British passport, including a factory where they are produced, and criticised electronic gates at airports. She presented multiple episodes of The Future With Hannah Fry on Bloomberg Originals, beginning in March 2023. Later that year, Radio Four started to broadcast Uncharted with Hannah Fry, a series of 15 minute documentaries about graphs.
Hannah Fry acted as the ‘chief number cruncher’ for Channel 4’s coverage of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, analysing results data as it came in overnight. She correctly predicted the Labour Party would win, but cautioned the party that they should “dampen their expectations”.
Carol Jean Vorderman is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 until 2008, as a newspaper columnist and nominal author of educational and diet books, and hosting the annual Pride of Britain awards. She has written books on detox diets.
Carol Vorderman’s career began in 1982 when she joined Channel 4 game show Countdown. She appeared on the show most recently with Des O’Connor, and previously with Des Lynam and before that Richard Whiteley (from 1982 until his death in 2005). Carol Vorderman left the show in 2008. While appearing on Countdown, Carol Vorderman began presenting other shows for various broadcasters including Better Homes and The Pride of Britain Awards for ITV, as well as guest hosting shows such as Have I Got News for You, The Sunday Night Project and Lorraine.
Carol Vorderman was a presenter of ITV’s Loose Women from 2011 until 2014.
Liz Bates is currently Westminster correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, part of JPI Media. She has previously worked for Politics Home and as a communications officer for Labour MP John Healey.
Originally from Rotherham, Liz Bates said she hopes her background will enable her “to reach out beyond the Westminster bubble and deliver political coverage that is authentic and relevant”.
Liz Bates scooped her rival lobby journalists – the cohort of reporters based in Parliament – earlier this year with a video of Labour MP Chris Williamson telling a Momentum meeting that Labour had been “too apologetic” about the anti-Semitism claims tearing through its ranks.
The story, which ran as an exclusive in the Post, led to his suspension by Jeremy Corbyn’s party.
Liz Bates said she “can’t wait to get started” at Channel 4 News, which she said “continually sets the bar high”, adding: “I’m looking forward to working with the best in the business.”
Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear added: “Liz is a first rate journalist who has produced a series of notable exclusives but also impressive in how she relentlessly pursued and secured Boris Johnson recently for an interview.
“She has a completely new and fresh take on politics and its place in British society which really impressed us. She will be a wonderful addition to the newsroom.”
Crick, 60, announced his sudden departure from Channel 4 News in April after eight years as political correspondent at the broadcaster. He now works freelance, saying he had not “hung up his boots” as a reporter.
Channel 4 News has also confirmed that Paul McNamara will continue on the politics beat after a successful stint reporting from Westminster.
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