Louise Minchin is a well-known and respected broadcaster, journalist and TV presenter. She presented the UK’s most watched Breakfast programme BBC Breakfast on BBC One for 20 years, and actively celebrates women in sport through her broadcasting work. She has competed in extreme triathlons and charity hikes.
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Before joining BBC Breakfast, she was one of BBC News 24’s main anchors and was one of BBC Radio 5 Live’s main presenters. She has also guest-presented The One Show and presented the BBC One series Real Rescues, Missing Live and Crime and Punishment.
Louise starred in ITV’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in Autumn 2021 and also competed in Celebrity MasterChef, coming runner up in the final, and Channel Four’s Time Crashers. She is the host of the top-rated podcast, Push Your Peak. In this podcast series, Louise interviews first-class athletes who have done extraordinary things, to learn what it takes mentally and physically to get to the top of their game.
Louise’s passion is endurance sport. Having given up competitive sport as a teenager, after a BBC Breakfast Christmas cycling challenge she was inspired to attempt her first triathlon in 2013 and went on to qualify for the GB age-group team to race in Chicago in 2015.
Since then, she has raced in five World and European Championships and has gone on to compete in extreme triathlons including one of the toughest triathlons in the world, Norseman in 2019.
In February 2020 Louise took part in a 100-mile hike across the Namibian desert for SportRelief–The Heat is On–raising awareness of mental health. Louise’s first book, Dare to Tri, was released in 2019 by Bloomsbury and charted her journey from the BBC Breakfast sofa to competing internationally in triathlon.
Her second book Fearless, Adventures with Extraordinary Women, was published in 2023 by Bloomsbury and reflects her passion for celebrating women’s sporting success. In each chapter Louise takes on a difficult challenge with a different courageous woman to tell their incredible stories. As part of it, she has swum from Alcatraz, free-dived under ice in the dark in Finland, went wild caving, and walked across Dartmoor
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