Bushra Shaikh

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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

 

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.

Ellie Costello

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(15 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

 

Ellie Costello is a National Reporter and anchor at GB News. She began her journalism career at the BBC World Service, later moving to the Victoria Derbyshire Programme, before joining GB News as South-East reporter in May 2021, before the channel launched.

Alongside her national reporting role, Ellie Costello can be seen as a regular presenter of Weekend Breakfast alongside Stephen Dixon.

She has covered national and international stories, including Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, the coronations of King Charles III, the 2024 UK and US general elections, and special live broadcasts from Normandy for D-Day 80. She also narrated portions of the Disney documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story.

Ellie Hodges

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(5 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5)

 

Ellie Hodges is a right-leaning British political commentator, broadcaster, and independent journalist who rose to prominence through her activism on university and school campuses.

Ellie Hodges first gained significant attention as a student activist and leader within Students for Reform, a student wing aligned with the right-wing populist political party, Reform UK. Her foundational work focuses on exposing alleged political bias and “left-wing indoctrination” in British education sectors, particularly within schools and universities. Her outspoken stances on campus free speech and meritocracy frequently went viral on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, leading to initial media invitations

Ellie Hodges serves as a guest host for The Daily Sceptic Podcast and runs her own media vehicle, The Ellie Hodges Show. She is a regular panelist and contributor for major UK news networks, including GB News, TalkTV, and LBC. Ellie Hodges commentary heavily targets issues surrounding free speech, modern education curriculums, mainstream media critiques, and current British government policies.

Camilla Tominey

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(5 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)

 

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.

Polly Middlehurst

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(23 votes, average: 4.70 out of 5)

 

Polly Middlehurst is an experienced British TV/Radio Presenter, she is one of the leading faces of GB News fronting many of their major bulletins.

For 20 years, Polly Middlehurst was a familiar face on the leading rolling news channel Sky News, where she anchored live news from London for 20 years, covering major breaking news events from royal weddings and the deaths of Hollywood stars to political uprisings and the latest international business/market news.

Polly Middlehurst was an International TV News Anchor at CGTN and broadcast to Britain’s Armed Forces globally on Forces TV.

She has worked in films and appears as ‘CNN News Anchor’ in the all-woman spy movie ‘355’, directed by Simon Kinberg, featuring Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o and Penelope Cruz.

Polly Middlehurst divides her time between being an Event Moderator/Chair and Media Resilience Coach while still working as a TV Presenter.

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Alex Phillips

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(43 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5)

 

Alex Phillips is a proud Gloucester girl and attended two utterly fantastic grammar schools, before getting a double first in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Durham.

After graduating Alex Phillips trained in newsrooms in Ghana, China and India to build up a portfolio to get into the super-competitive and widely respected School of Journalism in Cardiff, all whilst working for the NHS and working in a nightclub to pay for the next expedition.

Alex Phillips went on to work for ITV Wales before returning to my other spiritual home of the North East with ITV Tyne Tees before finally ending up at the BBC as part of their talent pool scheme.

In 2009, Alex Phillips left journalism and entered politics, back when Eurosceptics were labelled fruitcakes and loonies. I went on to consult in elections abroad before returning home to be elected as a Brexit Party MEP.

My final day in Brussels on January 31 2020 came just before the global pandemic hit. Like many of us, Alex Phillips ended up having an unusual 2020 and hunkered down with my parents in Gloucester at the grand old age of 37.

Alex Phillips love writing for The Telegraph when I get the chance and enjoyed a brilliant year regularly guesting on TalkRADIO. Now I’m back in London and thrilled to be back in TV journalism with GB News after a rather busy sabbatical!

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