Louise Minchin is an award-winning author, journalist, accomplished broadcaster, interviewer and event host. Currently Louise presents Rip Off Britain, the BBC’s leading consumer affairs programme and regularly appears as a presenter and consumer expert on Morning Live for BBC One. Louise presented the UK’s most watched morning programme, BBC Breakfast for 20 years, until 2021. Previously, she was a news anchor at the BBC, for both the News Channel and the One O’clock News. She has also presented The One Show, Five Live, Real Rescues and Missing Live. Louise has taken part in several reality TV shows including I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, Time Crashers and Celebrity MasterChef, where she reached the final. Alongside her career in...
Louise Minchin is an award-winning author, journalist, accomplished broadcaster, interviewer and event host.
Currently Louise presents Rip Off Britain, the BBC’s leading consumer affairs programme and regularly appears as a presenter and consumer expert on Morning Live for BBC One. Louise presented the UK’s most watched morning programme, BBC Breakfast for 20 years, until 2021. Previously, she was a news anchor at the BBC, for both the News Channel and the One O’clock News. She has also presented The One Show, Five Live, Real Rescues and Missing Live. Louise has taken part in several reality TV shows including I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, Time Crashers and Celebrity MasterChef, where she reached the final. Alongside her career in journalism, Louise is an endurance athlete who has competed in Norseman, the toughest triathlon in the world.
Her first book, Dare to Tri, follows her journey from the BBC Breakfast sofa to representing the Great Britain Triathlon team in her age-group at World and European Championships. Since leaving Breakfast, Louise has been concentrating on writing. Her book Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women reflects her passion for celebrating women’s successes in sport and endeavour. In each chapter Louise takes on a different challenge with a courageous woman, to tell their incredible stories. Her debut thriller, Isolation Island – about a gruelling reality television show filming on a remote Scottish Island – was published in 2024.
Her second thriller, Last Breath, is about a free-diving world champion from Finland whose best friend has disappeared in mysterious circumstances. The novel was inspired by her own experience of free diving under ice in the dark, and it will be published on the 11th March 2027. It can be pre-ordered here.
She was Chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023.
