8 May 2025

Punam Krishan

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(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

Punam Krishan is a Scottish doctor, TV personality and author. Born in Glasgow, she married Sandesh Gulhane and took a post at a medical partnership but left after burning out and became a locum general practitioner (GP). She has presented the BBC Scotland series Laid Bare, appeared on Morning Live and The Weakest Link, and written a Glasgow Times medical column and children’s book. In 2024, she placed eleventh on the twenty-second series of Strictly Come Dancing with her professional dance partner Gorka Márquez.

In October 2019, Punam Krishan began presenting Laid Bare for BBC Scotland, in which patients were given a comprehensive medical check-up and then given a dressing down by Punam Krishan. Writing that month, Swarbrick described her interrogations as “a living post-mortem”. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, she wrote for the Glasgow Times each week about health and her experiences as a doctor. By October 2021, she had begun making appearances on Morning Live and on BBC Radio Scotland. In June 2022, she published a children’s book, How to Be a Doctor and Other Life-Saving Jobs. She appeared on The Weakest Link that December. In April 2024, Dorling Kindersley commissioned Krishan to write a further two children’s books intended for publication the following year; these comprised a flap board book about human anatomy, You and Your Body, and a first aid book, A Superhero’s First Aid Manual.

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7 May 2025

Georgie Barrat

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(5 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

Georgie Barrat is a British tech journalist and television presenter, best known as a presenter on The Gadget Show.

Georgie Barrat is the resident tech expert on ITV’s Weekend, where she talks Aled Jones through the newest gadgets while working with the production team to help source and create the feature. Georgie Barrat is also Carphone Warehouse’s YouTube presenter and delivers Tech City News’ weekly video roundup.

In 2017, Georgie Barrat joined The Gadget Show as a co-host alongside Craig Charles, Ortis Deley and Jon Bentley. In August 2017, she presented Can Crooks Hack Your Home?: Tonight for ITV.

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5 May 2025

Sophy Ridge

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(5 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)

Sophy Ridge is an English broadcast journalist who has worked for Sky News since 2011.

After graduation in 2006, Sophy Ridge was a trainee reporter at the tabloid newspaper News of the World. After completion of her training programmes she initially worked as a consumer affairs correspondent in 2009. She then gained a job as a political correspondent on Sky News in 2011.

During her time there she covered a broad range of political stories and travelled with the British Prime Minister to Afghanistan, New York and Brazil. She was based in Colorado for the channel’s coverage of the US elections and was known for her round the clock broadcasting at the annual party conferences.

Sophy Ridge covered the 2015 general election as a senior political correspondent for Sky News, reporting on the Labour Party’s campaign and conducting interviews with party members. Her exclusives during this time included Ed Miliband’s resignation as leader of the Labour Party following the result of that general election and Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the subsequent Labour Party leadership election.

In 2017 Sophy Ridge became the host of her own show, Sophy Ridge on Sunday. In the same year Ridge released her first book The Women Who Shaped Politics, a non-fiction book which discussed women’s contribution to British politics. She also started writing columns in the tabloid newspaper Metro.

In 2022, she launched The Take with Sophy Ridge, a 30-minute discussion show based on the interviews that had featured in that week’s edition.

Sophy Ridge continued to present both programmes until July 2023 when it was announced that, from September 2023, she would present a new weeknight political programme for Sky News called Politics Hub.

In March 2025, Sophy Ridge won the award for Network Presenter of the Year at the 2025 Royal Television Society Journalism Awards.

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4 May 2025

Amy Garcia

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(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

Amy Garcia is an English journalist and broadcaster. She is currently the main anchor of the BBC Yorkshire regional magazine programme Look North.

Amy Garcia moved to London aged 19, working on interactive TV services Chase-It.TV and ITV Play’s Play DJ. She also worked on programmes for CBBC, CITV, and The Disney Channel.

Amy Garcia joined BBC Look North as a broadcast journalist in 2009, then moving to BBC South Today in 2012. During this time, she was also a newsreader for 60 Seconds on BBC Three, before moving back to Yorkshire and re-joining BBC Look North, but as a presenter, replacing the then newly-dismissed Christa Ackroyd. She co-presented with Harry Gration until his retirement in 2020.

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3 May 2025

Christine Talbot

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(5 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

Christine Talbot is a British television journalist and presenter who worked for ITV Yorkshire as a main presenter for its flagship news programme ITV News Calendar.

Christine Talbot trained at Lancashire Polytechnic’s School of Journalism from 1984–85. Before joining ITV in 1994, Talbot worked on local newspapers in Lancashire. She then joined BBC North West as a presenter and reporter for North West Tonight. During her time at ITV, Christine Talbot presented a number of regional programmes including the defunct magazine show Tonight (between 1996 and 2000) and several documentary series including Is It Worth It?, Silent Killer and Xposed.

Christine Talbot was also a pioneer presenter on the early satellite Health and beauty channel, Wellbeing between 2000 and 2001.

Since 2001, Christine Talbot has been the main co-anchor of Calendar, appearing with Geoff Druett until Friday 23 May 2003 and is now currently alongside Duncan Wood. Her first programme with Duncan Wood was on Tuesday 27 May 2003 at 6pm.

Christine Talbot was named O2 presenter of the year for her region in 2015 as well as O2 Journalist of the year in 2016. She was also named Journalist of the Year by the Yorkshire Royal Television Society in 2015. She was named the Yorkshire Society Media Personality in 2015 and The Yorkshire Choice Media Personality of the Year 2016.

On 30 June 2021 Christine Talbot presented her final Calendar after 20 years at ITV Yorkshire. and now works as a freelance presenter and journalist.

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29 Apr 2025

Joanna Blythe

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(7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5)

Joanna Blythe popularly known as Jo Blythe is an English meteorologist and news presenter for UK’s ITV network. She has been presenting the daily weather forecast for over 18 years now

Joanna Blythe worked for Yorkshire Television , presenting the weather for the ITV region, but also for the Border, Granada Television and sometimes Tees Tyne channels. In addition to regional broadcasts, she occasionally worked for the ITV national weather team based in London .

Joanna Blythe has also presented several regional programs in the northern regions for Northern ITV and appeared in a local commercial. Recently, Jo was voted fourth best weather presenter at the 2006 FHM Bloke Awards.

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28 Apr 2025

Vicki Butler-Henderson

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(28 votes, average: 4.89 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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25 Apr 2025

Katherine Downes

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(149 votes, average: 4.98 out of 5)

Katherine Downes is an English television presenter who formerly worked on the BBC News Channel and BBC Breakfast, specialising in sports coverage.

In 2009, Katherine Downes was working at BBC South East for which she won Best Newcomer at the Royal Television Society Southern Centre Awards in 2010.

Katherine Downes joined the BBC Sport team in 2012 when it moved to Salford. She had previously worked as a reporter and occasional presenter on BBC South East Today, as well as reporting on a variety of news stories as a correspondent for BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel during 2011.

On 1 June 2013, she married Tim Sleap at All Hallows Church in Sutton-on-the-Forest near York. She had allowed readers of Brides magazine to choose her wedding dress from a selection of five.

In November 2021, Katherine Downes announced she was leaving the BBC after 14 years with the corporation.

In 2022, Katherine Downes was part of BBC Sport’s presentation and interview team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

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