Vick Hope

Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu Wiles (' Hope''', born 25 September 1989) is a British television and radio presenter, journalist and published author.

Hope hosts three shows a week across BBC Radio 1: Going Home on Radio 1, and Life Hacks and Official Chart: First Look with Katie Thistleton.

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, before which she worked on youth and music shows for Disney Channel UK, MTV, Capital Xtra and Vevo.

In 2017 Hope won the Broadcasting Powerhouse Award at the Marie Claire Future Shapers Awards.

She is a human rights activist and Amnesty International ambassador, having worked with the organisation since she was 16.

Hope was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne by her English father, Nigel Hope, and Nigerian mother, Adeline Nwosu.

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.

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.

Following that, she broke into the British television mainstream as a reporter and presenter.

From 2017–2020, Hope hosted the Capital Breakfast show in London along with Roman Kemp and Sonny Jay.

Before this she hosted Weekend Breakfast on sister station, Capital Xtra.

In 2018, Hope joined The Voice UK as their backstage reporter 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.

She went on to work further with Sky One and Sky Arts presenting their live coverage of the 2018 Isle of Wight Festival alongside Edith Bowman and Joel Dommett.

On 27 October 2018, Hope was gunged on CBBC show Saturday Mash Up, after losing a vote.

She was a backstage presenter for ITV's The X Factor in 2019 after becoming the digital reporter for The Voice UK in 2018.

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

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, after hosting The X Factor's spinoff show Xtra Bites.

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

She also presented cycling coverage of the London Nocturne for Channel 4, Sky Sports and Eurosport, and fronted three series of Street Velodrome for BT Sport.

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.

The Sunday Times dubbed her a "voice of a generation" when she started at BBC Radio 1 in 2020.

Hope hosted the 2022 Women's Prize For Fiction podcast series after she was on the 2021 judging panel.

In the summer of 2022, she hosted her own television show Vick Hope's Breakfast Show which aired across ITV every Sunday morning.

Hope previously hosted the Capital Breakfast show on Capital FM with Roman Kemp and Sonny Jay, Crufts on Channel 4, Carnage on Sky One, Trending Live on 4Music, and FYI Daily on ITV2.

In 2020, she was the red carpet host of the British Academy Film Awards.

In October 2020, it was announced Hope would host a new ITV Hub sister show entitled I'm a Celebrity...The Daily Drop.

Hope has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for ITN and publications including The Argentina Independent and Marie Claire.

In August 2020, Hope replaced Cel Spellman to co-host Life Hacks and Official Chart: First Look alongside Katie Thistleton on BBC Radio 1.

In June 2021, it was announced that Hope would co-host BBC Radio 1's drivetime show Going Home with Vick and Jordan alongside Jordan North, beginning 6 September 2021.

During June and July 2022, Hope hosted her own television show, Vick Hope's Breakfast Show, which aired across ITV every Sunday morning throughout the summer.

On 20 October 2020, it was announced that Hope would host 2 new ITV Hub shows entitled "HOW" and I'm a Celebrity...The Daily Drop, after the original spin off show, Extra Camp was axed after 17 years on air.

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

In 2020, Hope hosted the pre-show red carpet for the BAFTA Film Awards.

In the same year, Hope presented Channel 4's Crufts alongside Clare Balding.