Harriet Prior is an award-winning broadcaster, reporter and presenter best known for her work across men’s and women’s football on Sky Sports, including Gillette Soccer Saturday, live Premier League coverage and digital content.
Winning Young Talent of The Year at the 2025 Broadcast Sports Awards, Harriet Prior has established herself as one of the most exciting young voices in football broadcasting, earning a reputation for combining deep knowledge with a relatable, conversational style and getting the best out of the biggest names in the game.
Harriet Prior is also an experienced journalist, hosting the Liverpool-based podcast The Anfield Wrap and writing for The Independent, GQ and The Guardian. She was named 30 under 30 to watch by the Liverpool Echo.
Alongside her work on screen, Harriet Prior creates engaging digital content for audiences across socials bringing fans closer to the personalities that shape the future of sport. We’re proud to support her on this journey at Insanity.
Yasmin Bodalbhai is a British journalist and television presenter known for her work at ITV News. With her reporting experience spanning from regional news to national broadcasting, Yasmin has made her mark as a trusted news anchor, celebrated for her empathy-driven journalism and in-depth coverage of important social issues. This article delves into her career, personal life, and public presence, while also examining some of the aspects that remain private.
Yasmin Bodalbhai’s career in the media industry began in radio. She worked for several radio stations, including Eagle Radio, STAR Radio, and KL.FM, where she gained invaluable experience in news production, reporting, and live broadcasting. Her time in radio laid the foundation for her transition to television and provided her with a versatile set of skills that have been crucial to her work in visual journalism.
Yasmin Bodalbhai joined ITN as a trainee journalist and quickly worked her way up to becoming an Assistant News Editor. Her skills in news production were recognized, and soon she was given on-camera opportunities. Yasmin’s work as a reporter and presenter for ITV News Central, based in Birmingham, saw her covering a wide range of stories, from local social issues to major breaking news events.
Her ability to handle complex stories and report with empathy and accuracy led to her advancement to national-level roles. Today, Yasmin is known for presenting major national bulletins, including the ITV Lunchtime News, as well as weekend evening news and the 6 pm news for ITV London.
Isa Guha MBE is an English former England cricketer and now a sports television commentator and radio broadcaster. She played in the 2005 South Africa World Cup and the 2009 Australia World Cup.
Isa Guha writes a column for the BBC Sport website and is a Test Match Special commentator. She joined ITV Sport in April 2012 as a co-presenter of ITV4’s coverage of the Indian Premier League.
In 2016, Isa Guha was a member of the inaugural Triple M radio Test cricket commentary team in Australia In 2018, she was a commentator for Sky Sports for the England/Pakistan Test matches, and was named as a commentator for Fox Cricket for their Australian cricket coverage. She was also a member of the commentary team at the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In 2020 she was the lead presenter of a new BBC TV Test and ODI cricket highlights show.
For the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Isa Guha presented a nightly highlights show for the BBC alongside JJ Chalmers. In 2023, Isa Guha joined the tennis presenting team for the BBC’s coverage of the Wimbledon Championships. She presented a nightly highlights show with Mark Chapman for the BBC during the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Tessa Chapman has been Chief Correspondent for 5 News since 2011, reporting at home and abroad for the channel. She also regularly presents the flagship news show at 5pm.
Shortlisted for ‘Journalist of the Year’ by the Society of Editors in 2022 and 2023, Tessa’s work includes award-winning investigations into eating disorders and the taboo subject of child to parent abuse, and long-form reports into social issues including drug rehabilitation, gambling and children in care.
Tessa Chapman has been at the heart of the biggest stories in recent years, reporting from Kyiv as Russia invaded Ukraine, from Turkey in the aftermath of the earthquake and presenting live from the studio to break the news of the Queen’s death to viewers. She has travelled extensively during her career, covering conflicts in Gaza and Libya, refugee crises in the Middle East and Europe, shooting tragedies and the gun rights debate in the US and natural disasters and climate issues in Indonesia, Kenya and Iceland.
Before her current role, Tessa Chapman was North of England Correspondent for Sky News. Her first job in television was as a reporter for ITV Granada. She started her career in local commercial radio in Manchester, where she was sent to interview the Prime Minister Tony Blair on her first day.
Shini Somara is a British mechanical engineer, media broadcaster, producer and author. She has presented TechKnow on Al Jazeera America and reporting for various BBC shows including The Health Show. Shini Somara has also hosted two educational series of physics and engineering videos on the Crash Course YouTube channel for PBS Digital Studios. She has been a presenter on BBC America, Sky Atlantic, BBC1, BBC2, and PBS.
Shini Somara’s broadcasting career started in 2011 when she presented on the BBC’s The Health Show, covering developments in global health. Later that year, she began hosting No Kitchen Required which aired in 2012 on BBC America. The show involved three professional chefs immersing themselves in alternative culture with tribes and attempting to cook using unfamiliar tribal methods. The first season included trips to Dominica, New Zealand, Thailand and Fiji.
In 2013, Shini Somara started working on the Al Jazeera America talk show TechKnow – a 30-minute show about science and technology. It outlines innovations in technology and science and how they are changing lives of people in America. The shows are recorded with a group of contributors with backgrounds in science and technology.
Between 2014 and late 2016, Shini Somara worked on several BBC productions, including Tomorrow’s Food, Battle of Jutland and Secrets of Orkney with Neil Oliver and Chris Packham, and for Sky Atlantic.
In early 2016, Shini Somara started working with PBS Digital Studios on Crash Course Physics (an online educational resource explaining complicated theories in a simple way with intuitive visuals). She extended her involvement with Crash Course in 2018 with a new series, Crash Course Engineering.
In 2020, Shini Somara was a reporter on the scientific program Razor on CGTN. In January 2021, she was a regular commentator on Science Channel’s Engineering Catastrophes.
Lynsey Hipgrave is an English television, radio presenter and journalist, currently working for British broadcaster TNT Sports.
Lynsey Hipgrave’s initial break came on Manchester radio station Galaxy 102 where she presented the breakfast show, before being appointed a travel reporter on Radio 5 Live.
Until July 2016 she co-presented the Saturday morning show on Radio 5 Live from 9 am to 11 am with Danny Baker and she has also hosted with Eamonn Holmes and Christian O’Connell.
In 2010, Lynsey Hipgrave became a presenter on Al Jazeera on their English-language sports channel (Al Jazeera Sports +3) for their Champions League shows alongside Gary Lineker. She was the main anchor on Al Jazeera’s coverage of the World Athletics Championships alongside Colin Jackson and Denise Lewis, the US Open Tennis Final, WTA Championships and the Asian Games.
Lynsey Hipgrave is a former presenter on Setanta Sports News and Roulette Nation on Challenge Jackpot.
In 2009, Lynsey Hipgrave contributed to BBC Three’s World Cup’s Most Shocking Moments.
In 2012, Lynsey Hipgrave was a contributor to Euro’s Most Shocking Moments, a follow-up programme to the earlier programme on the World Cup, this time featuring clips from football’s European Championships.
In 2013, Lynsey Hipgrave presented some of the African Cup of Nations games for ITV4 and hosted some of ITV4’s coverage of the Europa League, including Newcastle United’s quarter final tie with Benfica at St. James’ Park.
In August 2013, Lynsey Hipgrave began presenting on BT Sport where she has hosted Women’s Tennis and Football, including presenting coverage of the Champions League, Europa League and FA Cup.
During the summer of 2014, Lynsey Hipgrave worked for ESPN to help present the 2014 World Cup.
Between August 2016 and May 2017, Lynsey co-presented Channel 5’s coverage of the Football League, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy, with George Riley.
Susan Dent is an English lexicographer, etymologist, and media personality. She has appeared in “Dictionary Corner” on the Channel 4 game show Countdown
since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a post-watershed comedy version of the show.
Susan Dentis well known as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on Channel 4’s longest-running game show Countdown. She began working on Countdown
in 1992 at the insistence of her boss at Oxford University Press (OUP). She had recently switched roles to work on compiling English dictionaries, having previously worked
on bilingual dictionaries. At first she declined the Countdown offer, but her boss explained that her appearance on the show formed part of her OUP employment contract
and she agreed to take the role. On each episode, she provides a brief commentary on the origin of a particular word or phrase. Dent is the longest-serving member of the
show’s current on-screen team, first appearing in 1992; she has since made more than 5,000 appearances. Dent also works on the spin-off show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown.
Susan Dentappeared as herself in an episode of the BBC sitcom Not Going Out.
She presented Channel 4 web series Susie Dent’s Guide to Swearing, which explored the etymology and history of select English swear words. She has also made an
appearance on BBC entertainment show Would I Lie to You?. In 2018, she also appeared on five episodes of the panel show Richard Osman’s House of Games.
In 2019, Susan Dentlaunched the podcast Something Rhymes With Purple, co-hosted with her friend Gyles Brandreth; they followed this up with live theatre stage residencies
using the same formula as their podcast.
In 2023, Susan Dentembarked on a solo tour, The Secret Lives of Words.
She co-wrote a romantic radio drama with Peter Souter, Only One Word for Love, that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 ahead of Valentine’s Day in 2025.
Susan Dentwas a contestant on Taskmaster’s New Year Treat in January 2026.
Polly Middlehurst is an experienced British TV/Radio Presenter, she is one of the leading faces of GB News fronting many of their major bulletins.
For 20 years, Polly Middlehurst was a familiar face on the leading rolling news channel Sky News, where she anchored live news from London for 20 years, covering major breaking news events from royal weddings and the deaths of Hollywood stars to political uprisings and the latest international business/market news.
Polly Middlehurst was an International TV News Anchor at CGTN and broadcast to Britain’s Armed Forces globally on Forces TV.
She has worked in films and appears as ‘CNN News Anchor’ in the all-woman spy movie ‘355’, directed by Simon Kinberg, featuring Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o and Penelope Cruz.
Polly Middlehurst divides her time between being an Event Moderator/Chair and Media Resilience Coach while still working as a TV Presenter.
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