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.
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.
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.
Kaye Forster is a freelance weather presenter based at BBC East Midlands weather hub. Her usual role is providing weekday breakfast and lunchtime and weekend forecasts for the East Midlands, West Midlands and North West regions following budget cuts as part of the BBC’s Delivering Quality First in England program.
Kaye Forster took a BSc in Geography at Brunel University where her final year dissertation was on the effect of global warming on Atlantic hurricanes. In 2001 she started Met. Office training at ‘several RAF airfields’. She became a regular weather presenter at BBC South East Today before leaving to become freelance; she then spent a spell covering for a leave of absence for Dianne Oxberry at BBC North West Tonight.
Kaye Forster joined a ladies’ football team at university and has since played for Wycombe Wanderers, Exeter City and Ebbsfleet United.
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.
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.
Elizabeth Rizzini is a British journalist working as a weather forecaster for BBC London. She works alongside BBC weather female presenters Wendy Hurrell and Kate Kinsella. Elizabeth Rizzini has previously worked with the Met Office as a weather news presenter.
The BBC London journalist presents the morning and lunchtime weather news for the BBC South East and Look East. At one point, Elizabeth Rizzini presented The Sky at Night show, expressing her interest in astronomy and space weather. Elizabeth Rizzini has also participated in several marathons before. In September 2015, she participated in the Great North Run to help raise funds for the Save the Children group.
The following year, Elizabeth Rizzini was one of the Vіrgin Money London Marathon Media Presenters, along with famous people in the international media industry.
Katerina Christodoulou is a prominent BBC weather presenter who has been delivering forecasts across the North of England and London.
Known for her engaging on-air presence and expert weather analysis, Katerina Christodoulou has built a loyal following among viewers across the UK. With a degree in television and broadcasting and over a decade of experience in the industry, she provides accurate and insightful weather updates that help viewers plan their daily activities. Christodoulou’s passion for her craft and commitment to keeping the public informed about changing weather patterns have made her a trusted voice in the field of broadcast meteorology.