I currently present the sports news for the BBC.  You can see me regularly on the BBC News Channel, and BBC World News, and on BBC 1 bright and early on Saturday and Sunday mornings, presenting bulletins on Weekend Breakfast.

 My on-screen career began at rolling news channel Sky Sports News, before I moved to the BBC in 2007. As well as presenting hourly bulletins, breaking stories, and interviewing live studio guests on the News Channel and BBC World News, I have produced and presented my own weekly football chat show on BBC World called Football Review. I’ve contributed to Football Focus; travelled the country presenting Your News - a weekly news programme telling viewers stories; hosted coverage of the Digital Music Awards for the Podshow UK; and presented The Dive Guide- a diving programme for divers - despite having only ever scuba-dived in a swimming pool!

 

But it all started with a good old fashioned cup of tea. Or rather, hundreds of pretty poor quality polystyrene cup-fulls of the stuff. I grew up always wanting to be a journalist. And as I chased the dream, gaining as much work experience and knowledge as I could, I made tea for everyone and anyone who would take it. From journos on the Sports desk at The Sun and Mail on Sunday, to physios working with young England hopefuls at the FA Centre of Excellence at Lilleshall, to guests of the Ian Payne show on BBC Radio 5 live, and the fans of the week on Sky Sports’ Soccer AM Show. But it paid off.

 

After winning the Oxford University Phillip Geddes Memorial Prize for Journalism, I collected my 2:1 in Geography from St Edmund Hall, and got  my first job at Sky Sports. What was it? You guessed it… Making tea! But this time with a bit more responsibility, and the added bonus of getting paid for it.  And that was where it all began.

I’m a massive sports fan, and was lucky enough to spend my youth travelling up and down the country watching football with my Dad. You can blame him for my love of Manchester United – but we used to spend Saturdays going anywhere from Alvechurch Villa, to Oxford United, to Southampton or Liverpool. With more than the occasional trip to Old Trafford thrown in of course!

 

Having given up my ticket to the 1999 Champions League final in Barcelona because of rowing commitments at University, I thought I’d missed my one chance to see United win the Champions League. But travelling to Moscow with Dad in 2008 was just unbelievable. The atmosphere surrounding the game, the sheeting rain, the fact they were playing Chelsea – a night never, ever to forget.

 

But it’s not just football. I played county level tennis, rowed for my college first VIII at University, and am a keen swimmer and runner, having completed the London Marathon in 2005.

 

I have a real love of interior design and home improvements, spending my down time rummaging through antique shops and sales to find the next piece of something that I can update, renovate or incorporate into the home I share with my fabulous husband, Sam and gorgeous daughter Molly.  

 

My ambition is to travel to China to see Pandas in the wild. I’ve loved them since I was little, and nicknamed Amanda Panda - and I’d love to produce a programme showing their ever growing fight for survival.  So that’s me!