Shebahn Aherne is a prominent Scottish sports broadcaster, journalist, and radio presenter best known for her extensive work with talkSPORT. She has built a dynamic career covering high-profile football events with a strong focus on women’s football, representation, and equality in sports.
Shebahn Aherne serves as a primary host for the Weekend Sports Breakfast and frequently anchors the weekday Early Sports Breakfast. She also regularly features alongside Tony Cascarino to break down Premier League fixtures.
Beyond the studio desk, Shebahn Aherne uses her platform to aggressively hold prominent football figures accountable. Following international breaks and major tournaments, her post-match rants often trend across talkSPORT’s media channels. Notably, she heavily criticized manager Steve Clarke during his Scotland national team tenure for walking away from reporters, passionately defending the media’s duty to demand answers for traveling fans.
Scarlett Howard is a model, digital content creator, and prominent radio presenter for Kerrang! Radio. Described as an “old school metalhead from Essex”, she initially gained widespread popularity hosting the station’s weekend breakfast show and currently hosts her own Sunday evening slot from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, playing three hours of rock and heavy alternative bangers
Originally from Essex, Scarlett Howard grew up listening to Kerrang! Radio before joining the station to host her dream gig, alongside her rock catalog, she has worked across other UK radio platforms including Absolute Radio Country and Radio Essex.
Ellie Collins is a rising British television presenter and content creator who specializes in sports and entertainment broadcasting. She has quickly built an impressive portfolio, best known for her work with major global sports brands like Premier League Productions, NFL UK, and Channel 4 Sport.
Ellie Collins serves as a digital presenter and reporter for Premier League Productions, hosting live studio shows and interviewing high-profile players and managers such as Bruno Fernandes, Cody Gakpo, Andy Robertson, and John Terry. She has fronted major international tournament content for Channel 4 Sport, including covering the UEFA Under-21 European Championships on location.
Beyond football, Ellie Collins regularly presents digital content for NFL UK and covers professional golf events for the Challenge Tour, leveraging her strong social media background, she created and launched her own popular personality-led YouTube series, You Free Friday.
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.
Louise Schofield is a British television presenter, broadcaster, content creator and comedy performer. She has developed a diverse career across music, entertainment, sport and gaming, becoming known for her confident and engaging presenting style. She trained in Performance and Media at the University of South Wales, where she developed her interests in acting, comedy and broadcasting.
Music has been an important part of Louise’s presenting career. She has interviewed a range of well-known artists, including Jake Bugg, DMA’s, The Kooks, Blue, Idris Elba and Edith Bowman. She has also presented at music festivals and created and hosted Spill the Sound, a music television programme featuring artist interviews and live performances.
Louise Schofield has also worked across television, sport and entertainment. Her credits include presenting for BBC Bitesize and BBC Sesh, as well as creating and performing comedy content. She has covered major entertainment events, including the National Film Awards, and has presented football content featuring interviews with Premier League players such as John Stones, Granit Xhaka and Emiliano Martínez.
In addition to television, Louise Schofield has experience in radio, gaming and esports. She has worked with BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Nottingham and Islington Radio, and has hosted gaming events and worked with GINX TV. Her broad range of experience across different areas of broadcasting has helped establish her as a versatile presenter who can work comfortably across music, sport, entertainment and digital media.
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.
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.
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.
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