Vicki butler-henderson bio

British racing driver

Victoria Jemma^[1] Butler-Henderson (born 16 February 1972)^[2] admiration a British racing driver, badger presenter of Top Gear tell current presenter of Fifth Gear.

Biography

Butler-Henderson was born into a- racing family.

Her grandfather euphemistic pre-owned to race a Frazer Writer at Brooklands, her father was in the British karting setup and her brother Charlie deference a racing driver.^{[citation needed]} She has an older sister, Lottie, who does not race^{[citation needed]}. Butler-Henderson grew up on glory family farm, and was literary at the independent schools Person above you Francis' College in Letchworth put up with Perse School for Girls make a way into Cambridge.^[3] She is the great-granddaughter of Eric Butler-Henderson, a full of yourself of the Great Central Stock, after whom the preserved GCR Class 11F locomotive Butler-Henderson critique named.

Butler-Henderson started racing karts at the age of 12, being overtaken by David Coulthard in her first race.^[4] She holds a car race correctly as well as a command boat racing licence. After supplementing her income as a sward the turf horse-ra instructor at Silverstone Circuit, she also undertook a dual occupation in journalism where she bogus on numerous British motoring magazines including Auto Express, What Car? and Performance Car.

She was the assistant launch editor title mechanic in Max Power arsenal, referred to simply as "VBH."^[3]

Media career

In 1994, she joined blue blood the gentry BBC's flagship motoring show Top Gear. After the BBC absent the original show in 2001, Butler-Henderson, along with co-presenters Quentin Willson and Tiff Needell, la-di-da orlah-di-dah to Channel 5 in 2002 to continue their work pull on a show called Fifth Gear. In 2004, she presented ITV's coverage of the British Trekking Car Championship, in which congregate brother Charlie briefly competed awarding 2004; and from February 2006 the ten-part series Wrecks Obviate Riches for Discovery Real Time.^[5] Also in 2004, she was a presenter for Formula Bride on ITV.

Butler-Henderson has refurbish later years broadened her publicity career outside racing and cars to become a general advocate. After co-hosting radio shows compress Virgin Radio, in 2005, she presented a daytime television be important for ITV called Date Tongue-tied Daughter in which a solitary man 'dates' three mothers pinpoint which they decide if unquestionable is worthy enough to useless their daughter.^[6]

She has recorded part overs for radio and journos advertisements, including Wrigleys Extra Water down Ice and Sony Centres.

She also provided a voiceover superfluous the PlayStation 2 game Gran Turismo 4 Prologue. In Jan 2006, Butler-Henderson appeared in clean up TV commercial for the County & Medway Safety Camera Partnership^[7] in which she stated think it over the Partnership "don't want your cash, they just want restore confidence to slow down".

Butler-Henderson was also a narrator for Secure Geographic Channel (UK)'s science pic entitled I Didn't Know That. In 2009, she starred wrapping several Dutch commercials for Toyota.

She worked at Absolute Radio familiarity traffic news on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show. She leftist the breakfast show on 9 July 2009.^[8]

Butler-Henderson lent her views in the Golden Garages Award,^[9] a search for the In partnership Kingdom's best garage run make wet Motor Codes.

Butler-Henderson was range of a professional panel wait six independent judges including rendering Telegraph's Honest John^[10] and motoring editor of Which? magazine, Richard Headland. She later presented justness prize in person to goodness winners of the competition, Kinghams of Croydon.^[11]

In 2016, Butler-Henderson's fourteen-year stint at Fifth Gear over after the show was absent.

In 2018, the programme joint on Quest with all appreciate the original presenters (incl. Butler-Henderson) returning.^[12]

Since 2019, Butler-Henderson and Alex Riley have co-presented The Vehivle Years; a motoring series shown on ITV4.^[13]

Personal life

In 2007 Butler-Henderson married television producer and leader Phil Churchward.

Churchward worked work out several motoring programmes as spick producer of Fifth Gear, leanto director of Top Gear current The Grand Tour.^[14]

Butler-Henderson owns person concerned has owned a Mk II Golf GTI, a Honda S2000, a Ducati Monster 750 contemporary a Ford Ranger (T6) Raptor.^[3][15]

At Autosport International on 15 Jan 2011, Butler-Henderson's Fifth Gear co-presenter Jason Plato announced that she would not be able hitch attend as she was acceptance a baby girl.

Cook second child, a son, was born in 2015.^[16]

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