Vick Hope Biography
Vick Hope is a British television and radio host, journalist, and published author. She hosts three shows on BBC Radio 1 each week: “Going Home with Vick and Jordan,” “Life Hacks,” and “Official Chart: First Look”. Vick was dubbed a “voice of a generation” by the Sunday Times when she joined BBC Radio 1 in 2020.
How Old is Vick Hope? – Age
She is 33 years old as of 25 September 2022. She was born in 1989 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. His real name is Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu-Hope.
Vick Hope Family
Hope was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and raised there by her English father and Nigerian mother. She is the youngest of three brothers. She studied modern languages at Cambridge’s Emmanuel College and is fluent in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Hope has spoken in interviews about learning Spanish and taking night classes in Newcastle for extra A-Level subjects in order to gain admission to Cambridge.
Vick Hope Boyfriend
Hope previously dated Plebs actor Tom Rosenthal, who she split up with in November 2017. She is reportedly engaged to DJ Calvin Harris as of May 2022.
Vick Hope Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £1.2 million.
Vick Hope BBC Radio
Hope is a BBC Radio 1 presenter who can be heard on “Going Home with Vick and Jordan,” “Life Hacks,” and “Official Chart: First Look” three times a week. Before joining BBC Radio 1, Vick co-hosted the Capital Breakfast show with Roman Kemp and Sonny Jay in London. She had previously hosted weekend breakfast on Capital Xtra, a sister station.
Hope joined Classic FM in 2019 and co-hosted the station’s Revision Hour with Ellie Goulding, Lewis Capaldi, and Dan Smith. Hope will take over for Cel Spellman as Katie Thistleton and Katie’s Life Hacks co-hosts on BBC Radio 1 in August 2020. Hope will co-host BBC Radio 1’s drive time segment with Jordan North starting on September 6, 2021, it was announced in June 2021.
Vick Hope Height
She stands at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches.
Vick Hope Books
Listen Up: Rule the Airwaves, Rule the School, Hope’s first book for young readers, was published in 2020. Later this year, she plans to release the sequel. Hope contributes to a number of periodicals, such as Marie Claire, Shout magazine, and New Teach.
Vick Hope Career
Hope hosted her own television show, “Vick Hope’s Breakfast Show,” which aired on ITV every Sunday morning throughout the summer in June and July 2022. Hope will host two new ITV Hub shows on October 20, 2020: “HOW” and “I’m a Celebrity…The Daily Drop,” following the cancellation of the original spin-off show Extra Camp after 17 years on the air.
Kemp and Hope have also co-presented for Red Bull TV on ITV2’s 2Awesome and Can You Make It. Hope will host the BAFTA Film Awards’ pre-show red carpet in 2020. Together with Clare Balding, Hope hosted Channel 4’s Crufts in the same year. Together with Todrick Hall, she hosted the BRIT Awards 2019 International Live Stream on YouTube.
Hope was ITV’s backstage host for The X Factor: The X Factor and Celebrities: After serving as host of Xtra Bites, the live final of The X Factor. Hope has presented programming for Channel 4’s 4Music channel since 2014, including Trending Live!, in addition to her work as an entertainment reporter for Lorraine on ITV. She previously worked on youth and music shows for Disney Channel UK, MTV, Capital Xtra, and Vevo, as well as interview shows Box Fresh, Face The Fans, HotBox, and The Hangout.
After working for ITV on The Hot Desk (2016) and FYI Daily, where she continues to produce and present showbiz news, Hope joined The Voice UK as their backstage reporter in 2018. Hope, Freddie Flintoff, and Lethal Bizzle were announced to front Sky One’s Carnage in the same year. She continued her career by presenting live coverage of the Isle of Wight Festival for Sky One and Sky Arts alongside Edith Bowman and Joel Dommett.
On 27 October 2018, Trust was gunged on CBBC show Saturday Blend, in the wake of losing a vote. In sports, Hope hosted Channel 4’s World Chase Tag Parkour Championships in 2019 and Yahoo Sports Presents Tailgate, a weekly show about American sports in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
She also hosted three seasons of Street Velodrome for BT Sport and presented cycling coverage of The London Nocturne for Channel 4, Sky Sports, and Eurosport. She participated in BBC Sport Relief 2019’s All Star Netball.
Hope continues to work for ITN as a news and entertainment reporter for news and factual programming. Her first television documentary, The Slenderman Killings, was also made by the company for Channel 5. Hope’s documentary, which was named The Guardian newspaper’s Pick Of The Day, examined the rise of online horror. Hope also presented the documentary That’s Not Me, which at the Visions Film Festival won the BBC Award for Factual Entertainment for its investigation of the use of retouching in fashion photography.
Hope’s participation as a contestant on the 16th season of Strictly Come Dancing was announced in August 2018. She was paired with professional dancer Graziano Di Prima, but they didn’t make it to the Halloween special because they were eliminated on October 21. Hope criticized her exit from the Cha Cha dance in a controversial way, claiming that the judges and production team saved comedian Seann Walsh from the dance off. She was the fourth well-known person to quit the show.
Hope began co-hosting BBC’s Britain’s Best Young Artist with Ricky Wilson, frontman of Kaiser Chiefs and former art teacher, in February 2022. Hope broadcast the first episode of Vick Hope’s Breakfast Show on June 12, 2022; It airs on Sunday mornings on ITV and features cocktail recipes, summer reading suggestions, and celebrities. Hope joined Countdown’s Dictionary Corner on December 13, 2022, as announced by Channel 4, which she renamed “Vicktionary Corner” for the week via social media.