18 Aug 2026

Lynsey Hipgrave

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(116 votes, average: 4.97 out of 5)

 

Lynsey Hipgrave is an English television, radio presenter and journalist, currently working for British broadcaster TNT Sports.

Lynsey Hipgrave’s initial break came on Manchester radio station Galaxy 102 where she presented the breakfast show, before being appointed a travel reporter on Radio 5 Live.

Until July 2016 she co-presented the Saturday morning show on Radio 5 Live from 9 am to 11 am with Danny Baker and she has also hosted with Eamonn Holmes and Christian O’Connell.

In 2010, Lynsey Hipgrave became a presenter on Al Jazeera on their English-language sports channel (Al Jazeera Sports +3) for their Champions League shows alongside Gary Lineker. She was the main anchor on Al Jazeera’s coverage of the World Athletics Championships alongside Colin Jackson and Denise Lewis, the US Open Tennis Final, WTA Championships and the Asian Games.

Lynsey Hipgrave is a former presenter on Setanta Sports News and Roulette Nation on Challenge Jackpot.

In 2009, Lynsey Hipgrave contributed to BBC Three’s World Cup’s Most Shocking Moments.

In 2012, Lynsey Hipgrave was a contributor to Euro’s Most Shocking Moments, a follow-up programme to the earlier programme on the World Cup, this time featuring clips from football’s European Championships.

In 2013, Lynsey Hipgrave presented some of the African Cup of Nations games for ITV4 and hosted some of ITV4’s coverage of the Europa League, including Newcastle United’s quarter final tie with Benfica at St. James’ Park.

In August 2013, Lynsey Hipgrave began presenting on BT Sport where she has hosted Women’s Tennis and Football, including presenting coverage of the Champions League, Europa League and FA Cup.

During the summer of 2014, Lynsey Hipgrave worked for ESPN to help present the 2014 World Cup.

Between August 2016 and May 2017, Lynsey co-presented Channel 5’s coverage of the Football League, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy, with George Riley.

28 Apr 2025

Vicki Butler-Henderson

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(31 votes, average: 4.84 out of 5)

 

Victoria Jemma Butler-Henderson is a British racing driver, former presenter of Top Gear and current presenter of Fifth Gear.

In 1994, Vicki Butler-Henderson joined the BBC’s flagship motoring show Top Gear. After the BBC cancelled the original show in 2001, Vicki Butler-Henderson, along with co-presenters Quentin Willson and Tiff Needell, moved to Channel 5 in 2002 to continue their work on a show called Fifth Gear. In 2004, she presented ITV’s coverage of the British Touring Car Championship, in which her brother Charlie briefly competed in 2004; and from February 2006 the ten-part series Wrecks To Riches for Discovery Real Time. Also in 2004, she was a presenter for Formula Woman on ITV.

Vicki Butler-Henderson has in later years broadened her media career outside racing and cars to become a general presenter. After co-hosting radio shows on Virgin Radio, in 2005, she presented a daytime television show for ITV called Date My Daughter in which a single man ‘dates’ three mothers after which they decide if he is worthy enough to date their daughter.

Vicki Butler-Henderson has recorded voice overs for radio and television advertisements, including Wrigleys Extra Thin Ice and Sony Centres. She also provided a voiceover for the PlayStation 2 game Gran Turismo 4 Prologue. In January 2006, Vicki Butler-Henderson appeared in a TV commercial for the Kent & Medway Safety Camera Partnership in which she stated that the Partnership “don’t want your cash, they just want you to slow down”. Vicki Butler-Henderson was also a narrator for National Geographic Channel (UK)’s science documentary entitled I Didn’t Know That. In 2009, she starred in several Dutch commercials for Toyota. She worked at Absolute Radio doing traffic news on the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show. She left the breakfast show on 9 July 2009.

Vicki Butler-Henderson lent her views in the Golden Garages Award, a search for the United Kingdom’s best garage run by Motor Codes. Butler-Henderson was part of a professional panel of six independent judges including the Telegraph’s Honest John[ and motoring editor of Which? magazine, Richard Headland. She later presented the prize in person to the winners of the competition, Kinghams of Croydon.

In 2016, Vicki Butler-Henderson’s fourteen-year stint at Fifth Gear ended after the show was cancelled. In 2018, the programme returned on Quest with all of the original presenters including Vicki Butler-Henderson returning.

Since 2019, Vicki Butler-Henderson and Alex Riley have co-presented The Car Years; a motoring series shown on ITV4.

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