12 May 2025

Alex Scott

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(33 votes, average: 4.52 out of 5)

 

Alex Scott began her media career while still playing football, appearing on programmes such as Soccer AM,[26] with other minor roles at BBC Sport, BT Sport, and Sky Sports. She wrote a weekly women’s football column in the Morning Star newspaper, and a column in The Independent during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

In 2016, Alex Scott appeared in Bear Grylls’ ITV show, Mission Survive, which she won.

Following her retirement in 2017, Alex Scott turned her focus full-time to television broadcasting, co-presenting on Match of the Day Kickabout. She became well known to a wider audience when she covered the 2018 FIFA World Cup, becoming the first female football pundit at a World Cup for the BBC. After the tournament, she continued to provide insight on the Premier League, and in August 2018, became the first female pundit on Sky Sports, joining the Super Sunday team. She covered the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup for the BBC. In August 2019, Alex Scott was announced as the new co-host of Sky Sports’ Goals on Sunday, alongside Chris Kamara. Since 2020, Alex Scott has been a regular co-host on the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony. Alex Scott is also a relief guest presenter on The One Show.

In September 2019, Alex Scott was a contestant on the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Neil Jones. She was the first woman footballer to take part in the show. The couple were eliminated in week 11, coming fifth.

11 May 2025

Nicola Thorp

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(7 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

 

Nicola Sian Thorp is an English broadcaster, columnist, activist, and former actress. She is known for her role as Nicola Rubinstein in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2017–2019), as well as her contributions to the newspaper Metro and the programmes This Morning, and Talk Today.

In 2018, Nicola Thorp competed for ITV in Sport Relief’s “Clash of the Channels” boat race, and started writing a regular column for freesheet Metro.co.uk, her first focusing on period poverty for women. Since 2019, Nicola Thorp has also been a regular contributor for This Morning.

10 May 2025

Ellie Harrison

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(321 votes, average: 4.96 out of 5)

 

Ellie Harrison is an English television presenter, best known for co-presenting Countryfile from 2009 to 2023.

Ellie Harrison currently provides filmed reports or is a presenter on various TV shows, including: Countryfile, Country Tracks, The Great British Winter and The One Show for the BBC; and Daily Planet & Outrageous Acts of Science for the Discovery Channel.

In December 2014, Ellie Harrison took over as President of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust from Sir Henry Elwes.

Since 2015, Ellie Harrison has co-presented Secret Britain on BBC One. In 2015, she presented Dinosaur Britain, a two-part documentary for ITV. In 2016, she presented Britain’s Sharks and Britain’s Whales, also for ITV. She appeared at Countryfile Live at Blenheim in August and Countryfile Ramble for Children in Need in Edinburgh, returning to Countryfile in November 2016 after maternity leave. In November 2017 she danced and sang as part of a special Countryfile country music routine for BBC’s Children in Need.

In October 2023, after over thirteen years working on Countryfile, Ellie Harrison announced that she had left the series to spend more time with her family and to work on other projects.

9 May 2025

Kelly Somers

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(112 votes, average: 4.96 out of 5)

 

Kelly Elizabeth Somers is a British sports presenter and reporter, and a regular contributor to football coverage on radio and television in the UK. Among her presenting credits are appearances on the BBC, Talksport, Premier League Productions (PLP) and Optus Sport. On the BBC she has appeared on programmes such as Final Score, where she provides English Football League coverage alongside Mark Clemmit and Match of the Day. She can also be seen presenting Premier League Football coverage for Amazon Prime.

Kelly Somers has worked for a number of media outlets, including the BBC and Talksport. In 2018 she presented coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Optus Sport, and in 2019 presented the BBC’s coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which required many activities, including football, to cease for a while, she was part of the reporting team to cover one of the first matches to be played when football was allowed to resume in June 2020. The game, which saw Bournemouth take on Crystal Palace, was also the first Premier League match to be shown live on BBC television, and the first top-level match to be aired by BBC television since 1988. In August 2020, she became the sixth woman to present an edition of Match of the Day when she provided coverage of the 2020 FA Community Shield, and in 2019 presented the BBC’s coverage of the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship. She is also a regular presenter on BBC One’s The Women’s Football Show and Football Focus. Her other BBC roles have included providing coverage of England’s progress during UEFA Euro 2020, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

In June 2022, Kelly Somers became part of the reporting team for Channel 4’s coverage of the UEFA Nations League.

On 11 March 2023, Kelly Somers was one of several sports presenters working for the BBC who announced they would not appear on air following the BBC’s decision to remove Gary Lineker from Match of the Day after controversial comments he made about the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill. It had initially been reported Kelly Somers would stand in for Alex Scott on Football Focus, but Kelly Somers subsequently announced she would not present the programme.

8 May 2025

Punam Krishan

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(6 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.

7 May 2025

Georgie Barrat

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(7 votes, average: 4.43 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.

5 May 2025

Sophy Ridge

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(315 votes, average: 4.93 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.

4 May 2025

Amy Garcia

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(167 votes, average: 4.98 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.