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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.