Julia Somerville is a consumer affairs journalist. She currently co-presents the successful flagship consumer series Rip Off Britain on BBC One. She also presented Rip Off Britain’s spin off series Food, Holidays and Rip Off Britain: LIVE. Julia Somerville began her career in broadcasting when she joined the BBC in 1972 as a sub-editor in the Radio Newsroom. She became a chief-sub and then a reporter and was made Labour Affairs Correspondent in 1981. In 1983 she was recruited by BBC Television News to present the Nine O’clock News. In 1987 Julia joined ITN. During the next 14 years she presented News at Ten, the Lunchtime News and was part of the launch of the ITN News Channel. She left...
Julia Somerville is a consumer affairs journalist. She currently co-presents the successful flagship consumer series Rip Off Britain on BBC One. She also presented Rip Off Britain’s spin off series Food, Holidays and Rip Off Britain: LIVE.
Julia Somerville began her career in broadcasting when she joined the BBC in 1972 as a sub-editor in the Radio Newsroom. She became a chief-sub and then a reporter and was made Labour Affairs Correspondent in 1981. In 1983 she was recruited by BBC Television News to present the Nine O’clock News.
In 1987 Julia joined ITN. During the next 14 years she presented News at Ten, the Lunchtime News and was part of the launch of the ITN News Channel. She left ITN in 2001.
In 2010, Julia re-joined the BBC and began working on Rip Off Britain in 2011. In 2017, she was a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef (BBC One).
Julia has had a has a lifelong passion for painting. She is currently Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Government Art Collection. She has served on several judging panels for art and architecture awards, such as the Royal Institute of British Architects Annual Architecture Award Panels.
In 2013, she was appointed OBE for services to art.
