Talent Biography
Natalie Pinkham
Politics graduate Natalie most recently co hosted NFL UK on Five every Saturday morning with Trevor Nelson and can regularly seen stepping in to co host Live from Studio Five and as a week long panelist on The Wright Stuff. Prior to this she presented Police Interceptors and You're Nicked for the same channel. She recently spent the weekend at the Goodwood festival of Speed where she co hosted the event with Steve Ryder for ITV4. She presents the Great Swims series and Run the Beat for C4 each year. She hosted Feel Good Friday on Heart 106.2 and presented David Beckham's Soccer USA from the US for the Fox Soccer Channel and Five. Natalie has taken part in Dancing on Ice on ITV1 and she has also presented Channel 4's Adrenalin Rush - an energy charged adventure racing show and Virgin Online sports reports.
Natalie co-hosted ITV4's daily live Football World Cup series World Cuppa with Virgin Radio's breakfast host Christian O'Connell; whilst also presenting an Internet World Cup show for www.nobok.com with Sir Bobby Robson. In the summer of 2006 Natalie presented Extreme Sports Channel's coverage of the European Beach Soccer League with Eric Cantona.
Natalie is a poker enthusiast; and started out in front of the camera by hosting the British Poker Open, the World Cup of Poker, and a 'How to Play Poker' DVD for Virgin Games. She also enjoys penning interviews with some of the world's top poker pros, which you can find on www.nataliepinkham.com/poker. In recent years she has hosted the TT races for Men and Motors, and reported from the Masters Tennis Series for Sky Sports, fronted Chelsea's Blues News and reported for Five on the British 10k run.
Natalie also enjoys live audience events and has hosted the International Rugby Awards with Joel Stransky in 2004, the SALSA fashion show in 2004 with Craig Doyle, GOAL's Aura of Asia fund-raising event with Liz Bonnin in 2005, and the Scandinavian Poker Awards with Mads Mikelsson in 2007. Before pursuing a career in presenting Natalie worked in television production. Her first job after university was for Endemol as a researcher on Ready Steady Cook and later as an assistant producer on International King of Sports. She also worked for IMG/TWI as an assistant producer on the iconic sports show Superstars, and an Audience with the World Cup winning England rugby team in 2003.
Natalie read Politics at Nottingham University - so her other passion is current affairs along with domestic and world politics and when she gets to combine the two - sport and politics - she's in her element! She therefore relishes her work as a trustee for kids sports initiative Access Sport www.accesssport.co.uk, which facilitates grass roots participation in all sports,and in doing so tackles pressing social issues such as obesity and youth crime.
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