Victoria Derbyshire
Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire is an award-winning British journalist, newsreader and broadcaster. Her eponymous current affairs and debate programme was broadcast on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel from 2015 until March 2020. Since then she has been the main presenter of BBC News at Nine on BBC One. In August 2015, Derbysire announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would be having a mastectomy.
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Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire is an award-winning British journalist, newsreader and broadcaster. Her eponymous current affairs and debate programme was broadcast on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel from 2015 until March 2020. Since then she has been the main presenter of BBC News at Nine on BBC One. She has also presented Newsnight and BBC Panorama. She was one of a group of women to appear in ITV’s The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night – a factual entertainment documentary to raise awareness of breast cancer. In November 2020, it was announced that she would be taking part in the twentieth series of I’m a… Get Me Out of Here. She was the fourth celebrity to be eliminated alongside Beverley Callard and Beverley Sandell.
In August 2015, Derbysire announced that. she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would be having a mastectomy, but would continue to. present her programme as possible. Her younger brother Nick, was a younger brother of Nicky Campbell, who was also a presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live. She won gold Sony awards in 1999, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, a BAFTA award in 2017, and two Royal Television Society awards in 2018. In 2019, she was shortlisted and then auditioned to replace David Dimbleby as the regular host of Question Time. On TV she has covered the Grenfell Tower fire and the Manchester Arena bombing. She married Mark Sandell in 2018, following her treatment for breast cancer, and they have two children.
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