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Clare McDonnell

Clare McDonnell is an award-winning journalist and Broadcaster who can be heard daily across the UK on the news programme BBC Radio 5Live Drive, she’s also a regular Presenter on BBC Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour, has reported for BBC 1’s The One Show and anchored the BBC’s most listened to news programme around the world “Newsday” on the BBC World Service and its most listened to news podcast “Global News podcast”.

Clare has been at the forefront of many major historic news events, announcing the death of Her Majesty the Queen live on national radio, and then broadcasting from Buckingham Palace in the week leading up to the Monarch’s funeral and on the day itself.
Clare has been the voice that has informed the nation of major political developments too. She anchored a rolling news outside-broadcast from Westminster’s Central Lobby when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was facing a no confidence vote, then presented live from Downing Street when he resigned. She was there too for Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership and her subsequent resignation.

Clare is a sure footed, experienced pair of hands when it comes to handling complex and fast-moving news events but is also noted for her wit and warmth on air. She is passionate about sport and is now a regular voice on the Wimbledon Championships presenting from Centre Court and around the grounds. She also covered the Women’s European Football Championships and was side stage interviewing the Lionesses during their Trafalgar Square victory celebration attended by thousands.

Clare is also an awards host and is regularly asked to chair panel discussions and audience Q and A’s, anything from large events in the Excel Arena in London’s Docklands, to more intimate events with special interest groups and charities.

Clare has a passion for music and the arts too. She was one of the launch Presenters of cutting edge music station BBC 6Music and a reporter on BBC3 TV’s Nightly Entertainment Show “Liquid News” which saw her broadcasting live from, amongst other places, Elvis’s Graceland home and Abbey Road studios in London following George Harrison’s death.

Clare is a broadcaster, event host and panel chair of immense experience who never loses sight of the fact that the most important aspects of her job are holding the powerful to account and allowing those without a voice to be heard.

Antoine Allen

Antoine Allen is a presenter and reporter for ITV News. He has been shortlisted for many journalism awards due to exclusive interviews and engaging reports and documentaries.
Antoine reports for the ITV current affairs series On Assignment, presents Good Morning Britain’s London bulletins and ITV London’s late show.

Many of Antoine’s reports for ITV News have been viewed extensively online. His reports cover a wide range of subjects including police brutality, crime and community interest stories. Antoine was commissioned to cover the rise in gun crime in Sweden and the impact on its marginalised communities. Antone’s work was shortlisted at the British journalism awards.

Antoine frequently conducts live and exclusive interviews for broadcast, live events and conferences.

He has written for The Guardian on race and technology and his own blog tackles topics from relationships to movie reviews. Antoine was a regular co-presenter on Penny Smith’s weekend TalkRadio show.

Antoine frequently reports for ITV’s coverage of the FA Cup. His pre and post-match interviews with Boreham Wood’s manager and players were widely shared across the media.
He was the youngest nominee shortlisted by the Sports Journalists Association in 2022 as Broadcast Journalist of the Year, having secured exclusive interviews with boxer Anthony Yarde about the death of his father and grandmother to covid, Jahid Ahmed about the racism he faced as a cricketer, and Arsene Wenger about invincible season with Arsenal.

Antoine’s live sports presenting has included being the fan zone presenter for ICC England and Wales Cricket World Cup, he presented the Sail GP in Plymouth and was the Twickenham stadium presenter for two England Rugby internationals.

Antoine’s interview with Anthony Joshua for ITV News has been viewed nearly one million times. He has interviewed many of the biggest names in politics, entertainment, sport and media. VIPs such as Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya. nominee Kristen Stewart; the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt; rugby legends Martin Johnson, Jason Robinson and Jonah Lomu; football legends, Arsène Wenger, Sir Geoff Hurst, Jose Mourinho, and many current managers and players like Frank Lampard, Mikel Arteta, Patrick Vieira and England captain Leah Williamson plus former world champions Sir Lewis Hamilton, Sir Mo Farah, Frank Bruno; as well as many others from the world of business, fashion and popular culture.

Antoine was born in Northampton, and studied at Northampton School for Boys. He graduated in War Studies at King’s College London.
Before reporting for ITV News, Antoine presented his first international documentary about Black Face in Europe, for Maffick Media in Germany.

Antoine has over 200k followers across social media, due to his reports, writing and live event hosting.

Antoine has hosted many conferences and awards events. He was even the live presenter of the World Championship for Bartenders in Berlin, a 4 hour live non-scripted show.

Mike Bushell

Mike is a sport presenter for the BBC primarily working on flagship morning show BBC Breakfast. He is the longest serving sport presenter in the programme’s history.

Mike has also appeared on BBC World, BBC One’s Six and Ten ‘o’ Clock news, BBC Radio 5 live, and Radio 2 alongside Chris Evans and Sara Cox. Mike commentated on Radio 2 as Vernon Kay completed his Children in Need 2023 challenge. He’s also guest presented on Blue Peter and Saturday Mash up on CBBC.

Mike is known for holding the world record for his immersive reports, trying out different sports from around the country and the world, to try and inspire the Breakfast audience to get more active and try a sport, regardless of their ability. His tally stands at over 55 and the different sports have included everything from wing walking, backwards running to Kinball, Quidditch, worm charming and shin-kicking. In 2019 he ran in a 60 metres Grand Prix against top sprinters for a BBC breakfast and UK athletics experiment. He came last with a time of 9.27 seconds. He also sailed with Sir Ben Ainslie, played tennis again Novak Djokovic and had a round of golf with Luke Donald, just to name a few.
Mike has been to and covered Olympics, football and rugby and cricket World Cups. At the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 he helped save the iconic giant mechanical bull.

Mike is also famous for accidentally falling over in a swimming pool while live on air, broadcasting from Australia’s Gold Coast and interviewing swimmers like Adam Peaty. The clip became an internet sensation and made the news all over the world and is one of the most watched sport bloopers of all time. Lesser know is that he fell from a show jumping horse when training with the Olympic gold medallist Ben Maher.

Mike took part in the 2019 series of Strictly Come Dancing partnering Katya Jones finishing 7th out of 15 and defying all expectations. He then went on to dance on the Strictly Live tour.

Mike has won Celebrity Mastermind; his specialist subject was Alan Partridge. He’s also won Celebrity Catchpoint, Weakest Link, and Pointless and has appeared on Richard Osman’s House of Games all on BBC and the Chase Celebrity Special on ITV. He also sang on BBC One’s “Hear My Voice “for Children in Need.

Mike graduated in drama and spent four years with the National Youth Theatre before moving to newspapers and then BBC local radio presenting the news and BBC TV South Today where he also hosted a 40-part history programme, “South 2000” and an entertainment slot called What’s On.

He regularly plays in celebrity charity football and cricket matches for the Lord Taverners and also basketball’s Hoops Aid. He’s also been part of celebrity cycling teams for Sport Relief at the London and Manchester velodromes. Longer distance running is his specialty and has run the London marathon twice. In 1981 aged just 15 he ran 175 miles in 6 days as part of a challenge to raise money for the international year of disabled people.

Mike has hosted on cruises and at dozens of award nights and is known for his boundless energy and his entertaining, professional, and unique, accessible style and always includes his game of ‘Sport or Spoof’ which warms any crowd up as they try to guess whether what Mike says is a real sport he’s tried or one he’s made up.

Mike is known for his down to earth, style with a great sense of self depreciation and humour. He still runs a lot and plays padel tennis and pickleball and football and cricket. He’s been in a couple of rock bands and still tries to sing.

Lucrezia Millarini

Lucrezia Millarini is journalist and anchor for ITV News, presenting across all main programmes including ITV Lunchtime News, ITV Evening News and News At Ten.

Lucrezia also presents ITV London’s flagship show and is a regular reporter for ITV’s documentary series On Assignment. With more than 15 years live broadcast experience, Lucrezia has reported on RTS award-winning coverage of the Grenfell Tower Fire, anchored ITV’s breaking news of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death and was part of ITV team covering Harry and Meghan’s Windsor wedding.

Other prime-time credits include co-hosting a Mortgage Crisis Special and Mental Health Special for ITV’s The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live, appearing as a guest commentator on This Morning and fronting a documentary for current affairs programme Tonight: Botched? Inside the Beauty Business.

Not afraid of a challenge, Lucrezia has been a contestant on ITV’s Dancing on Ice, competed in the multi-discipline athletics challenge The Games and C4’s hugely popular Celebrity Hunted for Stand Up To Cancer. She is also a Celebrity Mastermind champion.

As former Entertainment Correspondent for ITV London, Lucrezia is as comfortable on the red carpet as she in the studio. From politicians to National Treasures, she has interviewed everyone from Blondie to Beyonce, Dame Joan Collins to Sr Elton John, Stephen Spielberg to Meryl Streep. She remains one of the few journalists to quiz Tom Cruise about Scientology and even presented Rihanna with her first Oyster card!

Lucrezia studied law at Bristol and trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist.

She was born in London and lives there with her husband and highly demanding dog, Milo.

Aside from the day job, she has chaired conferences, hosted a number of corporate events and award ceremonies, with clients always noting her warmth and natural presence.

A keen supporter of animal rights, Lucrezia is Patron to the charities Dogs on the Street and Support Dogs. She’s also backed campaigns for Alzheimer’s Society.

Kait Borsay

Kait Borsay has been bringing her conversational style to Times Radio for over two years, and currently presents The Evening Edition, from 8-10pm every Monday to Thursday. She has built a loyal audience of listeners as she delves into the stories of the day covering news, politics, education, health and social affairs. Insightful, sparky and always with a smile, Kait has a passion for bringing diverse stories and fresh voices to the airwaves.

Whilst at Times Radio, Kait has championed particular causes, developing an engaged following as she returns to issues like Long Covid, rights for care home residents, children’s mental health, the rights and advocacy of young people, and neurodiversity in women.

A broadcast journalist for over two decades, in the last five years, Kait has expanded her portfolio into news and current affairs. A keen self-starter, often pitching her own stories, Kait has been commissioned by the Audio Content Fund and was runner up at the IRN Commercial Radio Awards for a documentary on loneliness. She has recently started writing for The Times and The Sunday Times across health, lifestyle and social affairs.

Clear, authoritative and comfortable on screen, Kait has presented television news programming for Sky News, Reuters and ITN. She has also developed audio projects for The Telegraph and hosted podcasts for large corporate brands, like P&G and EY. She covered news and politics as an in-vision reporter for talkRADIO, and presented the station’s Drivetime show alongside Eamonn Holmes.

Kait started her career in sports journalism at Sky Sports. She has covered several major sporting tournaments from the beaches of Brazil to the Highlands of Scotland. She is co-founder of The Offside Rule, an awarding-winning, female-fronted football podcast and website. It has featured in the Guardian’s top five sport podcasts and was listed as Vogue’s best football podcast of 2018. In 2022, The Offside Rule was part-acquired by the New York Times.