Vick Hope

Vick Hope
Born Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu-Hope
(1989-09-25) 25 September 1989
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Occupation Television and radio presenter
Employer Capital FM
ITV
4Music
Home town London, England

Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu-Hope (born 25 September 1989), known as Vick Hope, is a television and radio presenter. She is best known for working on the Capital FM radio station where she hosts the Capital Breakfast Show[1]. She also presents Carnage on Sky One[2], Trending Live on 4Music, FYI Daily on ITV2 and became the digital reporter for The Voice UK in 2018.[3] As well as presenting, Hope works as a print and broadcast journalist for ITN and publications including The Argentina Independent and Marie Claire.[4] In 2017 Hope won the Broadcasting Powerhouse Award at the Marie Claire Future Shapers Awards[5]. She is a human rights activist and Amnesty International ambassador, having worked with the organisation since she was 16.[6]

Early life

Hope was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne by her Nigerian mother and English father.[7] She has three younger brothers. She studied modern languages at the University of Cambridge and can speak French, Spanish and Portuguese. Hope has spoken in interviews about teaching herself Spanish and taking night classes in Newcastle in extra A-Level subjects to win her place at Cambridge[8]. Her career began during her university 'year abroad' in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where at 19 she became the youngest ever journalist employed by newspaper The Argentina Independent, and it was while in Buenos Aires that she was picked up by MTV to present shows for them.[9] Following that, she broke into the British television mainstream as a reporter and presenter.[10]

Career

Hope has presented the Capital Breakfast show in London along with Roman Kemp and Sonny Jay since 2017.[11]

Hope and Kemp have also presented together on ITV2's 2Awesome[12] and Can You Make It for Red Bull TV.[13]

She has presented programmes for Channel 4's 4Music channel since 2014, including Trending Live and interview shows Box Fresh, Face The Fans, HotBox and The Hangout,[14] before which she worked on youth and music shows for Disney Channel UK, MTV, Capital Xtra and Vevo.[15]

In 2018, Hope joined The Voice UK (ITV) as their backstage reporter[16] having worked for ITV on The Hot Desk (2016) and FYI Daily, where she continues to produce and present the showbiz news.

The same year, Hope was announced to front Sky One's Carnage alongside Freddie Flintoff and Lethal Bizzle.[17] She went on to work further with Sky One and Sky Arts presenting their live coverage of Isle Of Wight Festival alongside Edith Bowman and Joel Dommett.[18]

In sports, Hope has presented cycling coverage of The London Nocturne for Channel 4, Sky Sports and Eurosport,[19] and fronted three series of Street Velodrome for BT Sports.[20]

In news and factual programming, Hope continues to work as a news and entertainment reporter for ITN. The company also produced her first TV documentary The Slenderman Killings for Channel 5.[21] In the documentary Hope investigated the rise of online horror, and it was named The Guardian newspaper's Pick Of The Day.[22] Hope also presented the documentary That's Not Me, exploring the use of retouching in fashion photography, which won the BBC Award for Factual Entertainment at the Visions Film Festival.[23]

In 2017 Hope won the Broadcasting Powerhouse Award at the Marie Claire Future Shapers Awards.[24] She has also been nominated for an Urban Music Award for her Capital Xtra Weekend Breakfast show, a Royal Television Society Award for her That's Not Me documentary and a TRIC Award for Best Radio Show for Capital Breakfast.[25]

In August 2018, it was announced that Hope would be a contestant on the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.[26] She is paired with Graziano Di Prima.

Personal life

Hope is a human rights activist and Amnesty International Ambassador, and in 2018 hosted the Amnesty stage at the Women's March in London.[27] She volunteers at a weekly refugee project near her home in Hackney, London where she works with children from asylum seeking families.[28] Hope was previously in a relationship with Plebs actor, Tom Rosenthal, which ended in November 2017.[29]

References

  1. ↑ "Capital Breakfast With Roman Kemp - The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station". Capital London. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  2. ↑ "Carnage". Sky. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  3. ↑ "Capital Breakfast With Roman Kemp - The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station". Capital FM. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Debut Talks Careers with Broadcaster Vick Hope". Debut Magazine. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  5. ↑ "From A Fashion Leader To A Humanitarian Hero, Meet Our 2017 Future Shapers". Marie Claire. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  6. ↑ "Who Is Vick Hope? Get To Know The 'Strictly Come Dancing' Star A Little Better". HuffPost UK. 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  7. ↑ "Who Is Capital DJ Vick Hope? 11 Things You Need To Know Including Age And Career". Capital FM. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "The Voice's Vick Hope: I took night classes to go to Cambridge". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  9. ↑ "Debut Talks Careers with Broadcaster Vick Hope". Debut Magazine. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  10. ↑ "5 things you need to know about Strictly contestant Vick Hope". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "VickHope.com - TV and radio presenter » About". www.vickhope.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  12. ↑ "Roman Kemp and Vick Hope to host new ITV2 show 2Awesome". TellyMix. 2016-12-16. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  13. ↑ "Red Bull Can You Make It? 2016 | Videos, Live Streams, Films & Shows | Red Bull TV". Red Bull TV. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  14. ↑ "Watch THE BOX PLUS NETWORK UNVEIL BRAND NEW LOOK FOR TRENDING LIVE! on boxplus.com". The Box Plus Network. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  15. ↑ "Vick Hope | Wonderland Magazine". Wonderland. 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  16. ↑ "Vick Hope joins The Voice UK family as Backstage Reporter". ITV. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  17. ↑ "Freddie Flintoff, Lethal Bizzle and Vick Hope to host Carnage, Sky One's war on wheels | Primal Media". Primal Media. 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  18. ↑ "Festival Broadcast Exclusively On Sky One Sky Arts". isleofwightfestival.com. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  19. ↑ Truong, Danny Cullen | Kat (2018-04-14). "About". Vick Hope. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  20. ↑ "2016 TV SERIES STARTS ON BTSPORT | streetvelodrome-uk". streetvelodrome-uk. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  21. ↑ "vick hope". 1883 Magazine. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  22. ↑ Mueller, Andrew; Harrison, Phil; Wright, Jonathan; Stubbs, David; Robinson, John; Catterall, Ali; Howlett, Paul (2016-10-31). "Monday's best TV: Dark Angel; Derren Brown Presents Twisted Tales". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  23. ↑ "Welcome". Visions Film Festival & Conference. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  24. ↑ "From A Fashion Leader To A Humanitarian Hero, Meet Our 2017 Future Shapers". Marie Claire. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  25. ↑ "TRIC AWARDS18 - TRIC". tric.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  26. ↑ "Strictly Come Dancing: Capital DJ Vick Hope joins line-up". BBC News. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  27. ↑ "Who Is Vick Hope? Get To Know The 'Strictly Come Dancing' Star A Little Better". HuffPost UK. 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  28. ↑ "vick hope". 1883 Magazine. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  29. ↑ "Who is Vick Hope, the DJ who has just been signed up for Strictly?". Metro News. Retrieved 15 August 2018.


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