Marverine Cole is a multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster from Birmingham. She is best known for her role as a newsreader on ITV1’s Good Morning Britain. She has been a regular media commentator on Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch and ITV1’s This Morning, bringing her sharp journalistic knowledge and fantastic sense of humour to the table at every appearance. Celebrating more than twenty years as a live news and current affairs broadcaster, Marverine’s media career spans more than three decades. She has worked as reporter, producer, TV & radio presenter and news anchor for many of the UK’s most watched and listened to broadcasters, including ITV1, Sky News, 5 News, BBC 5 Live, the BBC & ITV in...
Marverine Cole is a multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster from Birmingham. She is best known for her role as a newsreader on ITV1’s Good Morning Britain.
She has been a regular media commentator on Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch and ITV1’s This Morning, bringing her sharp journalistic knowledge and fantastic sense of humour to the table at every appearance.
Celebrating more than twenty years as a live news and current affairs broadcaster, Marverine’s media career spans more than three decades. She has worked as reporter, producer, TV & radio presenter and news anchor for many of the UK’s most watched and listened to broadcasters, including ITV1, Sky News, 5 News, BBC 5 Live, the BBC & ITV in the Midlands and BBC Radio 4. Marverine also hosts a podcast called Midlife Messy & Marvellous, hosting inspiring and relatable conversations with famous names.
As an ardent lover of classical music, Marverine has hosted afternoon shows for Classic FM, fronted speech and phone-in programmes for BBC Radio WM and for Up All Night on BBC 5 Live and she has co-presented BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live with Reverend Richard Coles.
She previously presented the podcast The Trouble with Politics and others for BBC Storyworks, Vintage Books, Faber & Faber, FANE Productions and BBC Good Food magazine.
Marverine has also created and presented radio documentaries. She conceived and presented Luck Be A Lady Tonight about female gambling addicts for BBC Radio 4, Ladies with Lyrics – The Rise of the Female MC for BBC 1Xtra, and executive-produced Where Are All the Black Girls in Grime for BBC Radio 4.
She is best known for Black Girls Don’t Cry, a BBC Radio 4 documentary which she produced and presented, and which earned her the accolade of ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Mind Media Awards. Sir Lenny Henry asked her to contribute a personal essay about mental health to his 2021 book (co-edited with Professor Marcus Rydder), Black British Lives Matter.
Marverine is the resident Beer Columnist for BBC Good Food magazine and website, where she exercises her credentials as one of the first women in the UK to become an accredited beer sommelier. As one Britain’s leading female beer experts, she has appeared hosting TV beer tastings on shows like ITV1’s Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh and talked all things beer on Channel 4’s Countdown.
A consummate broadcaster, Marverine has also presented lifestyle, food, technology, beauty and fashion shows live from London, for Britain’s most successful and profitable shopping channel, QVC. She was the channel’s first Black female main presenter in its 20-year history.
Her warm, natural and engaging presenting style means she is often booked to host conferences and award ceremonies. Clients include NHS Charities Together, PRCA, Black Talent Awards, The Voice of Black Opera Awards, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Inspire Construction & Housing Awards, Everywoman Awards, Capital Letters conference.
In November 2025, Marverine won Female Brummie of the Year at the 10th Birmingham Awards as well as an award for Outstanding Contributions to Media and Entertainment at the Multicultural Inspire Awards. In January 2026, Marverine was awarded an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Birmingham City University, for her contributions to journalism, education and media diversity. She is a board member of The Student View and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
