Nikki Fox | |
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Born | Hillingdon, Middlesex, England | 3 March 1980
Alma mater | Brunel University |
Occupation(s) | Presenter, journalist |
Employer | BBC |
Nikki Fox (born 3 March 1980 [1] ) is an English broadcaster, presenter and documentary maker. She is a Sony Award-winning journalist who presents for television and network radio. Fox appeared on various TV and Radio shows including Watchdog, The One Show, How to Look Good Naked, and Rip-Off Britain. [2] She is one of the first female disabled TV presenters in the world and has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK. [3]
Fox was born with muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair for the majority of her adult life. [4]
Nikki Fox has a B.A. (Hons) in music from Brunel University [2] [1] and has studied theory, piano, opera, composition, analysis and criticism of 20th-century music.
She began working at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the Peterborough Breakfast Show, presenting Fox's What's On Guide, as well as competitions and she then won a place on a Channel 4 Disability Researcher Training Scheme and started working at Maverick TV, Channel 4 and ITV. [5] In 2010, Nikki was a researcher and co-presenter on Gok Wan's How to Look Good Naked with a Disability , a Channel 4 show. [6]
She has been nominated for Best On Screen talent at the Cultural Diversity Network Awards in 2010. Fox researched and presented a major documentary for BBC Radio 5 Live, Beyond Disability: The Adventures of a Blue Badger where she set out to discover what it is really like being disabled in the UK in 2012. It won a Sony accolade and the 2012 New York Festivals Radio Programme and Promotion Awards. [2]
In June 2014 she was appointed disability news correspondent for the BBC. [7] Fox said: "I am beyond excited to be joining BBC News and am thrilled to be able to work as part of a specialist team of journalists, dedicated to the reporting of disability issues for a national audience, in a new and fresh way." [8]
In 2015 she won a New York Festival Radio Award for Learning to Walk Again, a radio programme she presented for BBC Radio 5 Live. [9]
In 2016, she was awarded as Journalist of the Year at the 2016 European Diversity Awards. [2] Also that year she joined the BBC Watchdog team as a presenter [1] and appeared on an episode of BBC's Celebrity Mastermind . [10]
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