Lynsey Hipgrave

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(117 votes, average: 4.97 out of 5)

 

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.

Jules Breach

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(117 votes, average: 4.98 out of 5)

 

Jules Breach is a British sports broadcaster for TNT Sports, Fox Sports, Viaplay, and Channel 4.

In her earlier media and broadcasting career Jules Breach held presenting roles at Brighton’s Juice FM, Latest TV and Sky Poker. Jules Breach has presented live television in the UK on BT Sport, and Channel 4 as well as CBS Sports’ UEFA Champions League coverage. Her live broadcasts have included the Premier League and live England national football team matches in the UEFA Nations League, and live rolling coverage covering all the Saturday 3pm professional football matches across Britain on the flagship BT Sport show BT Sport Score. She has also broadcast on ESPN, Putland TV and Radio, and UEFA. In 2015, Jules Breach hosted the Rugby World Cup for BT Sport Score.

In her career, Jules Breach was the Master of Ceremony of The Champions Club in the Emirates and Old Trafford Stadiums for both Arsenal and Manchester United.

Jules Breach had worked for the women’s cricket coverage for TNT Sports. In January 2022, Jules Breach led the presentation team for the Women’s Ashes series.

From 2022, Jules Breach also presents the Saturday evening highlights package show of the English Football League on ITV, and has presented for the Premier League Productions English language team, and Australia’s Optus Sport.

Jules Breach has also fronted coverage of the Women’s Ashes live cricket on BT Sport in 2022. Breach has hosted The Football Ramble alongside Pete Donaldson, Andy Brassell, and Kate Mason, amongst others. Breach was also a guest on A Question of Sport, and presented the Premier League’s Fantasy Football Show alongside James Richardson.

In 2023, Jules Breach was the lead presenter for England matches on Channel 4.

She became a lead host for UEFA Euro 2024 and UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 on Fox Sports broadcasting for American TV viewers.

Jules Breach returned to Fox to anchor the network’s 2026 FIFA World Cup coverage.

Laura Woods

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(127 votes, average: 4.92 out of 5)

 

Laura Woods was born in Dagenham, London, England. She studied print journalism at Kingston University. She is an English presenter working for ITV, Amazon Prime Video, and TNT Sports.

In January 2026, Laura Woods was made an Honorary Doctor of Art at Kingston University in recognition of her outstanding contribution to journalism and promoting women in sport.

Television

After graduating from university, Laura Woods got a job at Sky Sports as a runner in 2009, working her way up to editorial assistant, then into production as assistant producer, associate producer and producer.

She started presenting by doing behind-the-scenes interviews on the darts coverage for Sky Sports’ YouTube channel.

Laura Woods then got a job on the Saturday morning kids’ show Game Changers. From there she started reporting on the NFL and joined the Soccer AM online presenting team, which included a trip to Euro 2016 in France where she broadcast live on Facebook every day.

By 2018, Laura Woods became a regular pitch-side reporter on Super Sunday, occasionally reporting with Gary Neville. She left Sky Sports in 2022.

Laura Woods also worked for DAZN, as part of their coverage of boxing and the Women’s Champions League. In July 2023, she left the company.

On 17 August 2022, it was announced that Laura Woods would be joining Osi Umenyiora and Jason Bell on an hour-long NFL highlights show every Friday on ITV. On 7 September 2023, she was replaced by Craig Doyle.

On 18 July 2023, Laura Woods joined TNT Sports as the lead presenter for the UEFA Champions League and the boxing coverage.

Laura Woods was the lead presenter of ITV’s coverage of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Radio

In March 2020, Laura Woods was announced as the main presenter for Talksport’s breakfast show, presenting Monday to Wednesday, with Thursdays and Fridays presented by Alan Brazil.

On 14 June 2023, Laura Woods announced that she was leaving the breakfast show. Her final show was on 28 June 2023.

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Orla Chennaoui

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(124 votes, average: 4.91 out of 5)

 

Orla Chennaoui (born 13 November 1978) is a Northern Irish television journalist and former all-Ireland triple jump champion. Orla Chennaoui was born in Draperstown, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. After completing a degree in Law and French at Queen’s University Belfast, she took a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Edinburgh Napier University. While in Edinburgh Orla Chennaoui began her journalism career, working in print-journalism at Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News.

Orla Chennaoui moved into broadcast journalism at 2 Ten FM, a local radio station in Reading, Berkshire. A move into regional television news followed, working on the Meridian West news service at ITV Meridian and the ITV News network, based in Southampton. She returned to Scotland with a role at STV and Scotland Today.

In 2005, she joined Sky News as Northern Ireland correspondent. In 2010 Orla Chennaoui made a move into sports broadcasting for Sky Sports specialising in cycling; she was also Sky Sports’ principal correspondent for the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.

In 2019, Orla Chennaoui left Sky to join Eurosport as the lead presenter for the station’s coverage of cycling events. Eurosport became TNT Sports from February 2025.

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