About Charlie Webster

Charlie Webster is one of the UK’s brightest new TV talents. Her achievements make for impressive reading:

Detailed Background

Charlie

A native of the Yorkshire town of Sheffield - and a lifelong fan of the city’s renowned football club Sheffield United – Charlie moved to Newcastle when she was 18 to study for her degree in Language and Linguistics at University. In between her studies, Charlie’s generous nature saw her volunteer at a young offender’s institute, introducing youngsters to sport to help improve their confidence.

Her stunning looks and vibrant personality attracted the attention of TV agents and she was offered her first job in entertainment, reporting for MTV.  Interviews took Charlie across the world, interviewing some of the world’s biggest stars including Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton.

After a few months she became the face of Real Madrid TV as a presenter on their International coverage.  She traveled all over the globe with the biggest club in the world, regularly interviewing the ‘Galacticos’. She has fronted up many of their commercial activities including the award-winning Adidas ‘Impossible is Nothing’ brand campaign which involved global icons David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane.

In 2006 an offer was made to Charlie to join ESPN. She became the first ever live female football presenter in Asia for ESPN and Star Sports hosting premier league football to a global audience of over 350 million. She also covered motorsport, Asian football and basketball. With her growing reputation, Charlie wrote numerous sports columns for newspapers in the Far East.

She ran her first marathon in Singapore in 2006, and since then has competed in five more, raising thousands of pounds for good causes including the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research and Womens Aid UK. Charlie also helped train athletes with learning difficulties for the Singapore marathon as part of her work with the Special Olympics.

At the end of 2007 she returned to the UK and joined Setanta fronting the sports news and ITV to head up their motorsport coverage of GP2. Charlie also worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC reporting on a variety of sports, this included interviewing Lewis Hamilton on his return to England after becoming the youngest F1 World Champion. Simon Fuller approached her at the end of 2008 and brought Charlie on board to present alongside Tim Lovejoy on an Internet TV show called Channel Bee during which she hosted the Red Bull Air Race coverage for ITV.

Charlie thrives in a live environment and currently presents on Sky Sports News as well as featuring on Sky Sports boxing show Ringside and BBC1’s Football Focus. The past 3 seasons she has presented Live Speedway on Sky Sports every week. Also for Sky Sports for the past 2 years she has presented the Goodwood Festival of Speed live and for Channel 4 Charlie presented the coverage of the UK School Games. She has just presented the Olympic 2012 test event for Beach Volleyball in Horse Guards parade.

Nike has recently worked with Charlie to inspire women to get involved in Sport. Charlie recently hosted NikeKickz girls football tournament at Wembley. This is one of her major passion’s to engage society especially youth and women through sport. Always a keen writer with a degree in Language and Linguistics, Charlie has a weekly column in the Sheffield Star and on FootballUK www.football.co.uk in addition to a blog on skysports.com. She previously wrote a football column for Football Punk.

With the passionate athlete that Charlie is as well as running regular marathons she is training as an amateur boxer working with elite ABA boxing coach Jacqui-Lee Pryce at Fitzroy Lodge. In addition she is in the process of taking her FA level 2 football coaching badge.

Charlie is a prolific speaker having most recently hosted and spoken at the RCM obesity seminar, the First Women Awards, Empowering Women Awards, Success in the City and the London Football Coaches Association dinner which included hosting a Q&A with Gareth Southgate, Chris Coleman, Bob Wilson and Sir Trevor Brooking.


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