Vick Hope

Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu-Hope (born 25 September 1989)[1] is a British multi-lingual TV and radio presenter, journalist and published author. She has received multiple awards for her work in television and media. She hosted the Capital Breakfast show on Capital FM radio station.[2] She also presents Crufts on Channel 4, Carnage on Sky One,[3] Trending Live on 4Music, FYI Daily on ITV2 and became the backstage presenter for ITV's The X Factor in 2019,[4] after becoming the digital reporter for The Voice UK in 2018.[5] In 2020, she became the red carpet host of 2020 BAFTA Film Awards.[6]

Vick Hope
Born
Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu-Hope

(1989-09-25) 25 September 1989
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
OccupationTelevision and radio presenter, author
EmployerCapital FM
ITV
4Music
Home townLondon, England

As well as presenting, Hope works as a print and broadcast journalist for ITN and publications including The Argentina Independent and Marie Claire.[7] In 2017 Hope won the Broadcasting Powerhouse Award at the Marie Claire Future Shapers Awards.[8] She is a human rights activist and Amnesty International ambassador, having worked with the organisation since she was 16.[9]

Early life

Hope was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne by her English father and Nigerian mother.[10] She has three younger brothers. She studied modern languages at Emmanuel College, 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.[11]

Her career began during her university 'year abroad' in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where at 19 she became the youngest ever journalist employed by independent English language expat newspaper The Argentina Independent, and it was while in Buenos Aires that she was picked up by MTV to present shows for them.[12] Following that, she broke into the British television mainstream as a reporter and presenter.[13]

Career

Radio

Hope is best known for her work presenting the Capital Breakfast show in London along with Roman Kemp and Sonny Jay since 2017. On 24 February 2020, she announced that she would be leaving the show to focus on other ventures.[14] On 20 March 2020, Sian Welby replaced Hope as co-host of Capital Breakfast.[15]

In 2019, Hope joined Classic FM presenting Classic FM's Revision Hour[16] alongside Ellie Goulding, Lewis Capaldi & Dan Smith.

Television

Hope and Kemp have also presented together on ITV2's 2Awesome[17] and Can You Make It for Red Bull TV.[18]

In 2020, Hope hosted the pre-show red carpet for BAFTA Film Awards.[19] In the same year, Hope presented Channel 4's Crufts alongside Clare Balding.[20] She co-hosted the BRIT Awards 2019 International Live Stream on YouTube with Todrick Hall.

Hope was the backstage presenter for ITV's The X Factor: Celebrity and The X Factor: The Band live final,[21] after hosting The X Factor's spinoff show Xtra Bites.[22]

As well as working as an entertainment reporter for ITV's Lorraine, Hope has presented programmes for Channel 4's 4Music channel since 2014, including Trending Live! with AJ Odudu and Jimmy Hill and interview shows Box Fresh, Face The Fans, HotBox and The Hangout,[23] before which she worked on youth and music shows for Disney Channel UK, MTV, Capital Xtra and Vevo.[24]

In 2018, Hope joined The Voice UK as their backstage reporter[25] 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.[26] 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.[27]

In sport, Hope presented Yahoo Sports Presents Tailgate - a weekly show about American sports in 2019-2020[28] & Channel 4's World Chase Tag Parkour Championships in 2019.[29]

She also presented cycling coverage of The London Nocturne for Channel 4, Sky Sports and Eurosport,[30] and fronted three series of Street Velodrome for BT Sports.[31] She partook in All Star Netball for BBC's Sport Relief 2019.

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.[32] In the documentary Hope investigated the rise of online horror, and it was named The Guardian newspaper's Pick Of The Day.[33] 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.[34]

In August 2018, it was announced that Hope would be a contestant on the 16th series of Strictly Come Dancing.[35] She was paired with Graziano Di Prima and was eliminated fourth.

Film

Hope was the voice for Phlegma The Fierce in How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: the third and final instalment in the How to Train Your Dragon film trilogy.

Writing

In 2020, Hope released her debut children's novel, Listen Up: Rule the Airwaves, Rule the School. She is set to publish the sequel later this year.[36]

Hope writes for various publications including Marie Claire, Shout magazine, and New Teach.

Other

Hope has worked as a live host for a multitude of events including Ru Paul's Drag Con UK, Great North Run, Capital's Summertime Ball and Capital's Jingle Bell Ball.

In 2019, she hosted the Onside Awards at the Royal Albert Hall alongside HRH Prince Harry and Dev Griffin.

Awards

Hope received a TRIC Award in 2019 and 2020 for Best Radio Show for Capital Breakfast.[37] She also received a TRIC Award for Best Entertainment Show for Strictly Come Dancing in 2019.

Hope was nominated for Best Entertainment Programme at the BAFTA TV Awards 2019 for her work on Strictly Come Dancing.

In 2019, Hope was named "Woman Who Changed The Game" by Nike x Football Beyond Borders.[38]

She was named as a "Rising Star of 2018" by Hello Magazine and named "Future Face of 2018" by Fabulous Magazine.

Hope was consecutively nominated for Favourite TV Personality at the NRTA s in 2018 and 2019. In 2017 Hope won the Broadcasting Powerhouse Award at the Marie Claire Future Shapers Awards.[39] She has also been nominated for an Urban Music Award for her Capital Xtra Weekend Breakfast show, and a Royal Television Society Award for her That's Not Me documentary. She won the BBC Award For Factual Entertainment for her documentary That's Not Me.

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.[40] Hope also works closely with Help Refugees as an ambassador of their Choose Love campaign. She also works closely with Made By Sport - helping disadvantaged young people through sport, a charity she has been with since launching alongside Anthony Joshua and HRH Prince Harry.

In addition to her philanthropy work, Hope also volunteers at a weekly refugee project near her home in Hackney, London where she works with children from asylum seeking families.[41]

Hope was previously in a relationship with Plebs actor, Tom Rosenthal, which ended in November 2017.[42]

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