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.
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.
Christina Helen Johanne Trevanion is a British auctioneer and television presenter.
Christina Trevanion is a partner in the firm of Trevanion & Dean, auctioneers and valuers, based in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Trevanion founded the firm with Aaron Dean, having previously worked at Christie’s.
Christina Trevanion has appeared on a number of BBC daytime television programmes as an expert in antiques and as an auctioneer, including Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and Flog It!.
Christina Trevanion has also presented along with Will Kirk and JJ Chalmers a new series titled The Travelling Auctioneers.
Nina Louise Warhurst is an English journalist, newsreader, television presenter and actress. She is currently a business and consumer presenter on BBC Breakfast.
Nina Warhurst begin her on-screen career in an acting role in the Christmas special of Casualty in 1997, Heartbeat in 1998, and Butterfly Collectors in 1999. She began her broadcasting career on Russia Today in Moscow. In April 2007, she joined Guardian Media Group’s regional television channel Channel M, presenting on Channel M Breakfast. In 2009, she moved to Channel M’s weekday news programme Channel M Today, after cutbacks at station required the cancelation of Channel M Breakfast.
In 2010, Nina Warhurst joined BBC East Midlands regional news presenting East Midlands Today. Later in 2010, she joined BBC North West regional news presenting BBC North West Tonight and Sunday Politics North West. In June 2014, she covered the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil for BBC Sport. In September 2016, Nina Warhurst was appointed political editor at BBC North West.
In 2018, Warhurst begin reporting for BBC Breakfast on a freelance basis, and became a relief presenter when regular hosts were unavailable. In October 2020, she was appointed as BBC Breakfast’s main business presenter, succeeding Steph McGovern.
Holly Hamilton is a BBC journalist and presenter who has appeared on BBC Breakfast on BBC One, the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
Holly Hamilton grew up in Greyabbey in County Down, Northern Ireland, and was educated at Regent House School, Newtownards. She earned a master’s degree in Politics and French from the University of Dundee.
Holly Hamilton is married to fellow television and radio presenter Connor Phillips. Holly Hamilton gave birth to their son, Fionn, on 21 January 2021. Holly Hamilton and Connor Phillips are patrons of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE) and, as part of their role, they officially opened Corran Integrated Primary School in Larne, County Antrim, in November 2019.
Holly Hamilton presents Sunday Morning Live on BBC One.
A presenter of science and history television documentaries, Roberts was one of the regular co-presenters of the BBC geographical and environmental series Coast.
Alice Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire. She served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology. In August 2006, a Time Team special episode Big Royal Dig investigated archaeology of Britain’s royal palaces; Alice Roberts was one of the main presenters.
Alice Roberts wrote and presented a BBC Two series on anatomy and health entitled Dr Alice Roberts: Don’t Die Young, which was broadcast from January 2007. She presented a five-part series on human evolution and early human migrations for that channel entitled The Incredible Human Journey, beginning on 10 May 2009. In September 2009, she co-presented with Mark Hamilton A Necessary Evil?, a one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders.
In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, inspired by Roger Deakin’s book Waterlog. Alice Roberts presented a four-part BBC Two series on archaeology in August–September 2010, Digging for Britain. Alice Roberts explained, “We’re taking a fresh approach by showing British archaeology as it’s happening out in the field, from the excitement of artefacts as they come out of the ground, through to analysing them in the lab and working out what they tell us about human history.” The series returned in 2011 and again (on BBC Four) in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
In March 2011, she presented a BBC documentary in the Horizon series entitled Are We Still Evolving? Later in 2011, she presented another BBC documentary called How to Build a Dinosaur, which aired on BBC4 on 21 September 2011.
She presented the series Origins of Us, which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution. The last part of this series featured Alice Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa.
In April 2012, Alice Roberts presented Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice on BBC Two. From 22 to 24 October 2012, she appeared, with co-presenter Dr George McGavin, in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy, which discussed the remains of early hominins such as Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Australopithecus afarensis. In May and June 2013 she presented the BBC Two series Ice Age Giants. In September 2014, she was a presenter on the Horizon programme Is Your Brain Male or Female?
In October 2014, she presented Spider House. In 2015, she co-presented a 3-part BBC TV documentary with Neil Oliver entitled The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice and wrote a book to tie in with the series: The Celts: Search for a Civilisation. In April–May 2016, she co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives which looked at food nutrition and its effects on the body. In August 2016, she presented the BBC Four documentary Britain’s Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire. In May 2017, she was a presenter of the BBC Two documentary The Day The Dinosaurs Died. In April 2018, she presented the six-part Channel 4 series Britain’s Most Historic Towns, which examines the history of British towns, which was followed by a second series in May 2019 and a third series in November 2020.
In September 2018, she presented the BBC Two documentary King Arthur’s Britain: The Truth Unearthed, which examines new archaeological discoveries that cast light on the political and trading situation in Britain during the Early Middle Ages. In December 2018, she presented a series of three Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, titled Who am I? and broadcast on BBC Four, with guest lecturer Aoife McLysaght.
On 4 August 2020, Alice Roberts was the guest on BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific. Aired as a three-part series in September 2020, Alice Roberts co-presented the BBC’s The Big Dig focusing on the finds at St. James’s Park in London and Park Street in Birmingham.
On 12 February 2021, Alice Roberts presented a one-hour BBC Two documentary, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, about Mike Parker Pearson’s five-year-long quest that filled in a 400-year historical gap in the provenance of the bluestones of Stonehenge and Waun Mawn.
On 14 March 2022, Curse Of The Ancients with Alice Roberts, a five-part documentary series presented by Alice Roberts premiered on Sky History. In October Alice Roberts presented Royal Autopsy, a two-part documentary series shown on Sky History; a second series was commissioned in November 2023. The series examined the deaths of Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles II, and then Queen Anne, Queen Mary I, King Henry IV and King George IV. Alice Roberts presented the second series of Royal Autopsy that aired during April 2024.
In March and April 2023, Alice Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts. In June, Alice Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts, Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts during autumn 2024. and Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts during spring 2025.
In May 2024, Alice Roberts presented the documentary The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations, which aired on Channel 5
Juliet Sear is a baking expert, cook, food stylist, TV presenter and international best-selling author, who prides herself on writing easy to follow recipes and bakes for home cooks who love to entertain. Her down to earth style makes her a favourite with amateur bakers in the UK, Australia, the US and beyond.
She is the go-to expert for out of the ordinary food challenges and creative food projects (including experiential, edible art installations).
Juliet Sear often writes for BBC Good Food, Sainsbury’s magazine and regularly appears on ITVs This Morning and has her own ITV show, Beautiful Baking with Juliet Sear.
Over the past 15 years, Juliet Sear has made creations for thousands of people, including high profile celebrities like Kate Moss, Fearne Cotton, Holly Willoughby, McFly, Alexa Chung, Bryan Adams, Prince Harry, Sir Ian McKellen and many others.
Joanne Malin was born in 1967 to parents Kenneth and Dorothy and has 2 siblings. Joanne Malin is married but has no children. Originally from the Moseley area of Birmingham, Joanne Malin trained to be a dancer at the Italia Conti Academy in London and worked in local theatre productions. Her first professional show was Jack and the Beanstalk with Russ Abbot at the Birmingham Hippodrome, performing as Little Miss Muffet in the chorus. She then did a provincial tour with the show 42nd Street, before taking her next role as Frenchie in a six-month sell-out tour of Grease.
After more panto in Birmingham, she took a nine-month contract dancing on the QE2. At the age of 25, she then switched career and retrained by taking a National Council for the Training of Broadcasting Journalists course at Portsmouth, where she graduated with a distinction and won a prize for Best Documentary. Joanne started out working in the news departments of local radio stations before being hired by Reuters to work on breakfast news bulletins for Virgin Radio.
From here, Joanne Malin switched from radio to television, despite having no previous experience, and joined the infamous cable channel, L!VE TV in London as a newsreader and a stand-in presenter. During her time at the station, she presented coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1998, Malin joined Central Television (where she had already made a few guest appearances in her previous career as a dancer) and became anchorwoman for the West Midlands edition of Central News (later Central Tonight). She has also made appearances in regional programmes broadcast across the whole Central region.
In August 2006, Joanne Malin made the headlines after accidentally swearing during an outside broadcast on Central Tonight. She was in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire with the Central Tonight tour bus, in overcast weather conditions, when she ad-libbed “…it would be lovely here in the sun, but it’s pissing it down”. Joanne Malin apologised shortly after this on-air mistake.
On 10 October 2008, she announced her decision to leave ITV Central, shortly after the announcement of 60 job losses at the station and a major restructuring of Central News. Joanne Malin presented her final programme for the station on 31 October 2008. A week beforehand, Joanne Malin announced live during an interview on BBC WM that she would be joining the BBC on a two-year contract. She has presented a mid-morning show on BBC WM since February 2009, with a view to contributing to Midlands Today and the West Midlands edition of Inside Out. In early 2012 she moved to the lunchtime slot on BBC WM.
On 11 August 2012 it was announced Joanne Malin would leave the station in September 2012, but she continued to present across the BBC Midlands Today output.
Latterly, she has been a regular weekday presenter on the breakfast, lunchtime and flagship 6.30 programmes along with co-presenters Nick Owen, Mary Rhodes and Sarah Falkland.
She has also returned to the stage on three occasions, in 2007, 2008 and 2013, to appear in pantomimes at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre.
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