Victoria Derbyshire

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Victoria Derbyshire (born 2 October 1968 in Ramsbottom, England) is a British radio broadcaster. She is currently on maternity leave from the Morning Show on BBC Radio Five Live which she normally hosts between 9am and 12pm.

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Victoria attended Bury Grammar School, before going on to study English Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool. In 1991, she took a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Lancashire Polytechnic in Preston. She worked at BRMB in Birmingham and presented the lunchtime show on BBC CWR in 1994. In 1995 she joined the breakfast show on Manchester's GMR.

In 1998, she started work at Five Live, becoming joint presenter of the breakfast show with Julian Worricker. This show won a Gold Sony Award in 1998 and 2002.

In January 2003, Julian left the breakfast show and Victoria was partnered with Nicky Campbell. Her sister, Alex, became a newsreader at the station. In October 2003, it was announced that she would replace Fi Glover as host of the Morning Show and began broadcasting from this slot in the summer of 2004. She has also appeared in and worked on a number of television programmes over the past decade including: The Club, Central Weekend, Faking It and The Apprentice - You're Fired.

She is currently on maternity leave having given birth to her second child, Joe Luca, in January 2007. She lives with her partner, Mark Sandell (a BBC Radio news editor) and their two sons.

Victoria's Morning Show is a lively mix of topical debate, news, sport, showbiz gossip and human interest stories.She is largely characterized by her direct, unabashed and personable approach to broadcasting and is now generally acknowledged as one of the mainstays of Five Live's daytime schedule.

  • Jamie Oliver was caught on microphone after a 2006 interview with Victoria calling her a "stupid cynical bitch off BBC Radio Five" [1].
  • Victoria was caught up in a tabloid scandal in 2003, when she became romantically involved with Mark Sandell, the partner of colleague and fellow Five Live presenter Fi Glover [2].

  1. ^ News story about Jamie Oliver incident
  2. ^ Fi Glover profile including references to Victoria Derbyshire, Mark Sandell
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