Ben Hillman Craig Rowe Danni Menzies Jasmine Harman Jean Johansson Jonnie Irwin Laura Hamilton ITV National Weather Team | ITV News Suffering from a speech disorder, she pronounces r in a peculiar way. Aged 10, she lost her mother; her father raped and threatened to kill her. But her favourite marine creatures are dolphins: they make eye contact, twirl around you until theyre dizzy with the absolute joy of the connection, she says. Driving long-term change for marine life and ocean communities. Critically, Lonely Planet carries on the mission that independent travel is easy and doesnt cost a fortune and that has inspired millions to haul on a backpack and head off across the world. She swung between affairs, most famously with Ernest Hemingway. Hi there, my name is Monique Jeremiah and I am a commercial model and the entrepreneur behind Diversity Models modelling agency. Smith is truly an underrated talent. I was very bold sleeping in the back it wasnt locked anyone could have come in but that helped give me the courage to be out in the wilderness. And Strayed (her made-up, adopted name for herself) is best known for finding her escape in the wilderness hiking along the Pacific Crest Trail which she wrote about in her New York Times bestseller Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, later turned into the film starring Reese Witherspoon. Also known for her humanitarian efforts, Giedroyc contributed to Gareth Malone's All Star Choir, in 2014, in an attempt to raise funds for BBC's charityChildren in Need. Kirsty Gallagher - UK Kirsty hails from Scotland and first appeared on the Sky Sports screen in 1998. UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres has said of her work for refugees: I have seen how much they inspire her as she listens to them for hours on end. Our 'Women Who Travel' Facebook Group 120k-strong and growing fast helped select the final line-up. Women are becoming more adventurous travellers, The surfing holiday for women that changes lives, The world's most influential women travellers, The first woman in space. Vote for Your Favourite British Female TV Presenters 1 Nigella Lawson (Television Personality, Gourmet, Food Writer) 52 34 Birthdate: January 6, 1960 Sun Sign: Capricorn The former Country Living magazine editor fronted the show for five years and was also known for. When she eventually made it to a refugee camp in Kenya and managed to find her brother, Emmanuel Jal, who had become an acclaimed hip-hop artist, the pair recorded a song called Gua (meaning peace in their native Nuer tongue); it reached number one in Kenya. He has been lauded for his efforts to publicize science and was awardedtheBritish Association'sLord KelvinAward in 2006. Some say he turned an average pilot into a legend, but theres no denying Earhart alone spearheaded her successful attempt to be the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. Accompanied only by three Amazigh Muslim men and their camels, Scottish explorer Alice Morrison set off to find a hidden . The voyage went ahead in 2010, commencing in Gibraltar. I said, No, just an American who wants to learn more about Africa.' That was the Jolie before her dozens of field missions, meeting refugees from Kabul and Darfur as well as the Syria-Iraq border. Praise back in the day was hardly that, such as: she has masculine vigour, hard common sense and practical efficiency all tempered by feminine charm and a most romantic spirit. Other BBC News presenters also provide relief presentation on programmes broadcast on these channels. An Idiot Abroad is brilliant. She overturned social conventions smoking cigarettes, heading out without a chaperone and had plans to establish a flying school and teach the Negro to fly so they will able to serve their country better, but she died before her dream could be realised. Meet The Hosts | Gemporia It was a small step towards fuelling a desire for east-west exchange and cross-border adventures. British TV Presenters | Broadcasters | Great British Presenters Her latest book, Amaze, is just that, a 250-page book showcasing indigenous people from Ethiopia to Papua New Guinea to Greenland. She has been described as one of the few representatives of His Majestys Government remembered by the Arabs with anything resembling affection. Since Tracks, she has studied and written about nomadic people, and spends several months a year in the Himalayas. He is a writer and producer, known for Modern Love: Mumbai (2022), Anne Boleyn (2021) and Inside Cinema (2019). And now shes pushing on with their land-restoration work, recently donating more than a million acres to the Chilean government chiefly in the Patagonia and Pumaln National Parks. She battled with heroin and a messy divorce. An advocate of womens rights, she complained that systems and spacesuits were designed by men for men. In New York she shot drunken bums sleeping in the Bowery and sun glinting off rope and loved it so much she abandoned a medical degree to become the first woman member of the award-winning Magnum agency, where photographers retain full copyright. Over the course of the voyage, the pair collected more than 6,000 botanical samples from around the world, disembarking the ship in Mauritius the circumstances unclear to continue their botanical studies. Full list of the furious 45 female BBC presenters who have - mirror And once upon a time she was a doctor, which explains all the 'lab' influence. May is known for co-presenting the popular factual television show Top Gear alongside Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson. Next shes off to northern Canada to train for an upcoming expedition by contrast, this time in the desert. His In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great series was the first travel show I ever got into and started my interest in Central Asia. The exact circumstances of her death still remain unclear, but she had many enemies. She underwent a face restoration surgery to rebuild her damaged face. Danny Dyer is an English presenter and actor best known for playing hard-man roles, such as Tommy Johnson in the sports comedy film The Football Factory. Her family fled to Jordan, she joined them, there hobnobbed with royalty and ended up marrying the future king. Posting on Wednesday Sibanda said, "A Zimbabwean woman who grew up in Mpopoma, the lovely Linda Vilika, has been murdered allegedly by her husband. But she managed to notch up the miles on the cheap exploring the US in her 1979 Chevy LUV pickup called Myrtle, which she fitted out with a twin-sized futon. One presenter said women working in TV had resisted but their employers had come under pressure. Who is Rachel Burden on BBC Breakfast? | The Sun In the foreword to On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin, her sister wrote that she hopes Marie will continue to inspire young women everywhere, as they dream of the difference just one girl can make in the world. to The X Factor. Vote now!To cast your vote for the female traveller you think has had the most impact, enter our online poll now results to be revealed soon. After school, a friend invited her to Kenya and she worked as a waitress to save up for her boat passage to Mombasa in 1957. Fascinated by tales of migration, she followed Christopher Columbuss route through the West Indies, the Spanish conquistadores crusades into South America and Ferdinand Magellans voyage from Spain to the Philippines, as well as covering World War I from the trenches of France. Weather Presenter Becky Mantin Credit: ITV Weather. Lisa Minot @lisaminot Bio: Travel Editor of The Sun - UK's biggest daily national paper - and quite nice, too Location: T: 51.511165,-.061842 Followers: 21K 5. British historian and author Lucy Worsley is not just a curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces, but is also a famed TV presenter, popular for her work on series such as A Very British Murder and If Walls Could Talk. A prolific writer, at 87 shes written 24 travel books covering 54 countries, with adventures such as meeting a tiger when cycling through the Nepalese Terai, watching the emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie single-handedly quell a student riot in Addis Ababa and losing her packhorse panicked by a leopard camping in the mountains of Cameroon. When she occasionally returns home, she retreats to a small cabin in the Swiss Alps before she hears again the call of the wild. To stay healthy critical in this line of work she pops loads of vitamins, drinks gallons of water and to avoid coughs and colds uses Uber rather than public transport (regrettably, she adds). Television has become one of the most popular mediums of entertainment and knowledge. Rachel followed in her dad Paul Burden's footsteps . I pull the kids out of school and we go travelling for a couple of months. She drags around a suitcase she named the Coffin, full of books, a single-cup electrical-heating element and a jar of Marmite, and always carries a stuffed toy monkey called Mr H. Yet the pioneering researcher-turned-activist doesnt plan to change her schedule any time soon. Hi friends!! A mean mountaineer as well, she also spent time in the Alps, summiting both La Meije and Mont Blanc, and had one peak in the Bernese Oberland, Gertrudspitze, named after her. Female BBC World News reporters Right from children to young ones, teenagers to adults, men and women and even oldies, it has something to offer for all. The early days of their life together were spent covering the Spanish Civil War from Madrids frequently shelled Hotel Florida, and they tried to build a home in Cuba, listening to Chopins Mazurka in C Major while Gellhorn planted a garden of dahlias, petunias and morning glories. In 1999, at the age of 28, she became the youngest queen in the world when her husband took the throne and became King Abdullah II. Ooo, the blogger did good. Ive never found my sex a hinderment; never faced a difficulty which a woman, as well as a man, could not surmount; never felt a fear of danger; never lacked courage to protect myself. Adams helped found the Society of Women Geographers after being refused entry to the men-only Explorers Club despite a lifetime spent on the road.